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    Cerebral Brewing

    4.6 (21 reviews)
    Closed • 2:00 pm - 9:00 PM

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    Dogs allowed
    Outdoor seating

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    Dale Z.

    All right, I'd rather liked oasis. Although the number of beers that they make that I really enjoyed were fairly limited, I thought it was a great space with a cool vibe ... but, Cerebral has made this a better space with better beer.

    Cindy S.

    We checked out the new location for Cerebral. I loved it! Was not as busy when we went and it was around noon. There is a pizza joint inside and walking in it smelt amazing. But we were still full from our breakfast we will definitely go back and try the pizza. The option for beer i really liked.

    Matthew J.

    I always make a stop at Cerebral at least once during my visits to Denver. The West Highland location is brand new since the last time I was in the city. So I made sure to stop in. Hilariously there was a beer run going on, so it was crazy busy. But after walking past those who combine physical activity with beer (YAWN, just kidding, if you know me you know my thoughts on running for beer), I was able to take a seat at the bar and order a flight. Sadly didn't get food, but it looked FANTASTIC. Bridging Eras: A Cold IPA hopped with Tropical Fusion, Peacharine, and Waimea. Paper Lantern: A Japanese Rice Lager hopped with Saaz. Beautiful white pear and jasmine tea notes. Ripe Trait: A New England Style IPA based on their House IPA with Citra, Mosaic, and El Dorado hops. But they then added Palisade Peaches and Bella Bolettino Organic Farms Starfire Peaches. This was absolutely delightful. Seasonal Obligation: A Pumpkin Spice Latte in Porter form. Cinnamon, Vanilla, Allspice, Ginger, Clove, Nutmeg, Brown Sugar Roasted Pumpkins, and Maple Syrup added to a delectable porter base. PSL season anyone? ___

    Colleen L.

    I always stop by Cerebral when I'm in Denver. I hadn't been to this location but it definitely didn't disappoint. It's located in an old church so the architecture is lovely. The taproom is quite large with table, booth, and bar seating. The service was great. There is a pizza place operating in the back but they were closed on the day I went. They have a large tap list and also to-go beer. I like the hoppy and hazy beers. On my last visit I tried a DDH IPA and of course it was good. Definitely stop in and have a beer!

    Katrina M.

    I was visiting Denver and a friend of ours lived in town so I chose this brewery to meet at. It's in a great area with lots of restaurants and bars to visit after a few beers at Cerebral! They have a great beer selection. Fruity, Sour, Hazy IPA A nice patio and very large inside seating area where they host events like trivia night.

    David K.

    Went there on 1/3/26. First time at this location. All street parking. Could be tough on a busy day. Decent sized patio. Lots of tables inside plus an upstairs. They do have a restaurant inside. Serves pizza. Bartenders were friendly and attentive. Looks like they package most of their beer. From light to dark. Lots of IPAs. Everything is very good. Cheers!

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    Tiffany A.

    We love love Cerebral and are so happy there's a location closer to us now in the Highlands! We went on opening day and it was PACKED - probably waited in like 20 minutes for a beer? The menu options looked a little fewer than the ones at the Congress Park location - obviously a lot of IPAs, two fruity beers, two Belgian/wild beers among others. Got a hoppy saison and one of their hazy beers - both great! We'd been to the previous brewery that was there - Oasis - and the overall inside looked fairly similar in layout. The beer pouring wall was redone and super nice, and some of the seating changed a bit. The pizza shop inside the brewery isn't ready yet and constructions still going on, but looking forward to going back when it's ready or snagging a pizza from their food truck outside!

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    Erin W.

    Great location, beer and ambiance! Perfect spot if you love hazy IPAs too. We went around 4pm on a Friday (snowing) and it was jammed, took a little to find a table but people were in and out since they don't have food yet. Looks like they're putting in a pizza spot inside and will be much easier to find a table once the outside patio opens on warmer days! Excited to have a good brewery in the neighborhood.

    (Left): muscle memory IPA  (Right): Yuzu lager
    McKenna S.

    Great spot, quick service, great recommendations from staff about IPA & light beers. Not too many options, but flavorful beer choices. Great outdoor seating and indoor options. Very chill atmosphere

    Altered perception, nuff said!
    Mike C.

    Fucking amazing! Great space and really well done beer. Maybe my new favorite place in the hood.

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    Crowded vibe, great ipas, probably the best hazys in CO these days. IPAs are too spendy and that's what keeps me from coming back often

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    Hops & Pie - Artisan Pie Of The Month (small)

    Hops & Pie

    4.3(1.2k reviews)
    0.7 mi•Berkeley, Northwest
    •$$

    I must have had a really bad experience my first time a lot time ago because this time, I loved it!…read more Very tiny restaurant in Tennyson with limited seating. Hard to find local parking on wknds very busy street Cheesy garlicky bread $15 (five) pieces delish esp with ranch. It wasn't really garlic bread, more just cheese pizzas lol but it was very good. Save the leftover ranch for the pizza! Detroit style sour dough with pepperoni ricotta and banana peppers: This was soooo good. Came with 4 corner pieces $42 plus tip

    24JUL2026 Cheeseburger & fries…read more A very good smashburger and a ton of Lamb-Weston scientifically-designed fries. I am a fan. 10JUL2022 A delicious lunch of Detroit style pizza (chorizo, jalapeños, pineapple) with some 50¢ beers and some regular priced. Excellent service fron Ashley and Crystal. The cool air inside was soothing on this 36°C afternoon. Enjoyed using our lifetime Beer Club memberships. We all survived Covid in 2020-21. 09JUN2018 Watched my 2-year-old grandson shove most of a kid's grilled cheese sandwich into his maw. Oh, and my sando was delicious and the service was excellent. 20MAR2018 A quiet Tuesday afternoon. Enjoyed a delicious Hogshead ale. 26DEC2015 Still crowded. Still has delicious pizza. Still has a terrific beer selection. Still has friendly staff. I am still happy. 05DEC2014 It was crowded. This is why no one goes here anymore. Ordered beer and drank some whilst in vulture mode waiting for 2 seats at the bar. Five minute wait. Ate a delious pizza and drank more beer. Happy. 14NOV2013 "Artisan Sandwich of the week: Turducken - Smoked Turkey, Chicken & Duck Confit, with Cranberry Walnut Stuffing, Bacon, and Sage & Apple Cider Gravy on a House Roll" This is an awesome sandwich. 08SEP2013 Cordon Bleu Chicken sandwich of the day. This is the BEST I have ever had. Very different. Slices of chicken breast with very smokey ham chunks in a dreamy cheese sauce with pickles. Yes, pickles. 16JUN2013 Fathers' Day. Walked in at 1415 and it was packed. Enjoyed great beers (3rd beer free!) and a 9/10 Reuben. Superb mango gazpacho. Drew and his crew make the best food. Great service as usual. Two kids (along with Mom and Dad) sitting at the bar. I hope they drank some beer. Still only 2 blocks from my house. 27FEB2012 What is with the Yelpers voting Hops & Pie as "not good for kids"? 1. All kids like pizza. 2. Some kids like beer. 3. Some kids like soda. I think Hops & Pie is great for kids and I see lots of them there whenever I visit. 08JAN2012 Why isn't it named "Hops and Mac"? As in Macaroni and Cheese and bacon, ham hocks, peas, IPA. Went on a Sunday afternoon (will I be happy when the Donkeys are no longer on TV) to drink beers and eat. Decided to "step outside the box" and ordered "Mac & Cheese" instead of pizza. This is the best M&C I have ever eaten in a restaurant and it will also make me step up my efforts at home. 18DEC2011 I arrive at 1347 which is 13 minutes before they open on a beautiful warm Sunday afternoon in Denver. There are people (shall we refer to them as "alcoholics"?) who are also waiting. When the door is unlocked (3 minutes early), 14 people rush in. At 1406, it is standing room only. What makes this place so popular? Could it be the Avery Brewing tasting flight? Rumpkin beer. Could it be the slice of the day: Cheeseburger? Could it be the excellent bartender service? Could it be the perfect bar atmosphere? Well, I won't tell. You need to visit for yourself. 05OCT2011 This time, we ate there. Excellent pizza. Very good service. 13SEP2011 making progress Free Wi-Fi. Always good. 31AUG2011 Walked the 2 blocks from my house and picked up an Artisan Pizza. Excellent. Super thin crust. Bursting with flavor. $2 craft beer in cans (6 to chose from) on Wednesdays. I really need to return and just work my way thru the huge beer selection.

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    Hops & Pie - Pepperoni, sausage, mushroom, and jalapeños - build your own pizza.

    Pepperoni, sausage, mushroom, and jalapeños - build your own pizza.

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    Colorado Plus Brew Pub

    4.1(419 reviews)
    2.1 mi
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    We went to Colorado Plus for dinner since it was on our way home. Our waitress was really nice! We…read moretried to order 2 beers on tap and they were out of both. The crispy Brussels sprouts had a good flavor but the Brussels were so big that they didn't get very crispy, the bacon was also not super crispy which was disappointing. The burgers were good, a little smaller than expected. Also, only one stall in the woman's bathroom worked and it was out of soap. Overall this place was fine but I can't say we'll be back.

    Personally I do not enjoy writing these type of reviews, nonetheless:…read more I called to check regarding having a Service dog, this is not an ADA requirement, but sets my mind at ease! Asking for a booth, was told there was a wooden long seating in the bar and we would be welcomed!!! Not long after seated obtaining a "ginger ale, a nice man came out and stated - "per" "the Jefferson County Laws," no dogs allowed either in restaurants or we are not allowed to be together." Our service dogs are governed by ADA Laws!!!! NOT Jefferson County!! The place was baron of people save a few which are in this photo! After entering the place I did wonder if I was in the place I read on line??!!! Their site does not seem to represent my experience! Nor our "Non- ADA - Welcome" With regrets I must post a rather dismal review.

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    Edgewater Beer Garden

    4.0(97 reviews)
    1.5 mi

    Great beer garden. Lots of outdoor seating. It was very busy when I visited on a Friday evening,…read morebut it didn't feel overly crowded. The staff kindly gave multiple reminders before closing. The Japanese rice lager (forgot the name) was amazing. So good, in fact, that they ran out on this particular evening. As posted throughout the bar, they have instituted a mandatory 18% service fee in lieu of tips. For better or worse, be aware of this. It means you don't need to tip. As far as I'm concerned, it didn't have a negative impact on the service from the bartenders.

    A great option for young families on a warmer day…read more I stopped by Edgewater Beer Garden with some friends with the intention of enjoying a seemingly warmer Denver winter day, and we had no trouble finding seating on the patio. Maybe we were just brave, but with blankets and the outdoor heaters the space served well for a small get together. The inside, however, was PACKED. Was it something in the air that influenced every young family West of Denver to crave local brews and fried food options? Or is this just the typical crowd for this establishment? Either way, I don't believe myself to be the target market for this location. After a few hours, the children's birthday party and other large family gatherings occupying the warm interiors finally disappeared, and we were able to enjoy all the splendors of their heated former firehouse. The staff who was wandering the facilities to take empty trays and glasses from tables were exceptionally nice, the food options were as plentiful as the variety on tap, and the patio's ambience was exactly what we needed. Ticked all the boxes you'd expect of a suburban beer hall. Overall, not really my scene, as I don't have a golden doodle or a curious toddler, but if that sounds like an apt description for the company you keep, you'll enjoy this spot immensely.

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    Odell Brewing Sloan's Lake - Hilltop

    Odell Brewing Sloan's Lake

    4.4(141 reviews)
    1.4 mi•West Colfax, Northwest
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    There are moments when human beings believe they are on a quest for higher knowledge. And then…read morethere are moments when they are just heavy objects being pulled toward the earth by gravity, wanting nothing more than a chair, a cooked piece of dough, and a cold glass of beer to dull the edges of the evening. The remarkable thing is that the second quest often yields the greater joy. Five of us, all varying degrees of exhausted from a long day of sightseeing, stumbled into Odell Brewing's Sloan's Lake Brewhouse at the corner of 17th and Perry. We were not looking for a miracle. We were looking for a soft place to land. We ordered our dinner, then ventured up to the rooftop patio, which looks out over the lake. I'm told that when the entire surrounding landscape isn't engulfed in flames that you can clearly see the jagged spine of the Rocky Mountains from up there. It is a very fine place to sit while the planet rotates away from the sun. They have a second bar up there that is just as well stocked as the one on the main floor, and the space was filled with the pleasant, low-grade hum of people who were glad to be alive and not currently looking at a screen. The kitchen turns out scratch-made pizzas, so we ordered a Margherita and a Garden Harvest. You must understand something about the five of us: we come from Central and Northern New Jersey. In our part of the world, opinions about pizza are not casual preferences; they are inherited like family heirlooms or chronic joint pain. To say that a group of Jersey natives found these pizzas to be genuinely good is a small miracle of regional diplomacy. They weren't trying to imitate a New York slice. They were just honest, well-baked pies with fresh ingredients, which is an honorable thing for a pizza to be. Then there was the beer. According to their website, this location houses a 10-barrel pilot system where they brew experimental, small-batch R&D beers you can't get anywhere else. I believe them. The fruited sour we sampled was bright and lively, the sort of beer that makes you wonder why so many other breweries get the style completely wrong. The porter was equally memorable, rich, dark, and smooth, with deep roasted notes that made it far too easy to drink. It was a beautiful piece of liquid craftsmanship. The staff was fast and entirely devoid of the plastic, rehearsed cheer you so often find in corporate franchises. They brought things out before we had time to grow cranky, and they seemed genuinely glad we had wandered into their corner of Denver. We had expected a purely transactional exchange of money for calories before going to sleep. Instead, we got a rooftop at dusk, exceptional beer, and the sudden, sweet realization that the day had ended exactly as it should. People are strange, fragile creatures, but occasionally we stumble into the right table at the right time.

    This pizza had no business being this good!!! I didn't expect much from food at a brewery, but it…read morewas delicious and the perfect stop before a concert! Service at the bar was great, and atmosphere is fun, casual, and family friendly.

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