Background
In June 2012, Owner Nick Nunns opened TRVE Brewing Company at 227 Broadway utilizing a three-barrel system. Nunns explains the name TRVE derives from a term meant to make fun of “black metal” people who take themselves too seriously. TRVE started out with four beers: Wanderlust, Belgian American pale ale; Black Cascade, a black IPA; Prehistoric Dog, a salted wheat beer, and Tunnel of Trees, a pine-forward IPA. As interest in Sours began to grow in 2013, Nunns and head brewer Zach Coleman began to focus on them more. That year TRVE began bottling their creations. Their first release was Vexovoid, an American Wild Ale. In May 2015 Nunns took the next plunge and opened a new, 5,000-square-foot brewery he calls “The Acid Temple” that includes a ten-barrel system and room for dozens of wooden barrels and two twenty-barrel stainless-steel fermentation tanks.
Experience
We arrived TRVE Brewing Company on a Saturday early afternoon and got a spot at the bar. It is dimly lit, with homage to heavy metal and a bit of the occult feel. They were offering 11 beers on the “Mixed Culture” side and 7 beers on the “Clean Beer” side. Everything we tried, we loved. Our favorite, Burning Off Impurities, a unique tart coffee pale, followed closely by Mazzaroth, Buried Sun, Bridge Burner & Brain Transplant. It was also nice they had some bottles to go. They do not offer food, just ridiculously good beer. If I could only live next door. A must visit when in Denver.
No nearby lodging noted. After visiting TRVE we suggest walking across the street to check out Baere Brewing. Between TRVE & Beare is the Sugar Bakeshop. Why not stop in for house made pastries and yummy empanadas.
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