WHO ARE WE? 
(Click here for a team directory!) 
What makes us tick?
We've got 4 principles underpinning our company.  
1.  Make great beer.
2. Treat everyone ethically.
3. Reduce our negative impact on the environment wherever possible.
4. Be proactive members of our communities.
TRIPLE-BOTTOM LINE.  We firmly believe that all businesses have a responsibility not just to their financial bottom lines, but to their social and environmental ones.  We realize that to stay in business we need to build a company that is financially sound.  It should be equally apparent that if we don't take care of people and the planet, none of us will stay in business.  We didn't enter business to make a profit -- we entered it for love of the product and our community.  So we use our product and our dollars to support people (both on our team and in our community) and environmentally sound practices.

From using as many local ingredients as possible to constantly focusing on water and energy conservation to working with several different non-profits each year to try to raise awareness and funds for their efforts, what makes us tick is working to be positive contributors to this community!  

We'd love to give you a sustainability-focused tour if you're interested.
Here are a couple of things about which we're really stoked:

Thanks to a nomination from the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, in 2022 we were honored to receive an award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals as Colorado's Outstanding Small Business. 
We continue to strive to merit that title.

We have been honored to host The LEO Fund's annual fundraiser since 2021.

In May of 2022, we were given the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed's inaugural Dick Jefferies Partner for the Poudre award (which is named after a person we admire hugely and a river we love!) for support of CPRW's work in the Cache la Poudre watershed.

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Our annual gift-wrapping effort during December at H&D accepts tips to send to charities.  If you would rather drink a pint than wrap, stop on by on a weekend in December!
Craft Malt Certified Brewery seal
LOCAL MALTS, SPENT GRAINS, AND LOCAL AGRICULTURE:
We are members of the Craft Maltsters Guild and have committed to using at least 10% craft malts in our craft malt certified brews.  We are brewing some beers with 100% local malts, and are working toward this (it's a steep financial ask, but the grains are fantastic and we appreciate their footprint!).'
​Every time we brew our spent grain and other organic material goes out to a local farm for use in composting and supplementing animal feed.
We are happy to serve as a gathering place for people working in any of these arenas.  If you've an idea for some educational meeting or community effort, let us know!