With the Rockies as our backdrop, Colorado has always been home. Visit our flagship brewery in Fort Collins or our Denver small batch brewhouses in the Five Points and Sloan’s Lake neighborhoods.
The Odell family founded a brewery full of beer-centric people back in 1989. Odell Brewing is employee owned and committed to its independence for generations to come.
We’re operating the largest carbon dioxide recapture system in Colorado craft beer, eliminating 1.4 million pounds of carbon emissions annually. Our commitment to process improvement saves over 10 million gallons of water per year.
We contribute to hundreds of nonprofits annually, empowering their work in our communities. Each year, our co-workers volunteer over 2,000 hours and host over 50 non profit fundraisers.
In 2015, the Odell family founders sold the majority of the company to its co-workers (now co-owners) in a combined management buyout and an Employee Stock Ownership Program. Since the beginning the people who helped build Odell Brewing Co have acted like owners. This just made it official.
We take great pride in the pioneering advances we’ve made in developing innovative beer styles and brewing techniques. From the intensive study of hopping techniques to the comprehensive analysis of historic beer styles, we’ve identified the optimal assemblage of beer characteristics in each of our handcrafted brands.
All of our packaged beer is brewed on our 135 barrel, custom Braukon Brewhouse. However, many of these packaged beers started as just an idea on our 5 barrel Pilot System. Experimentation and innovation is at the heart of how we brew. Everyone at the brewery is invited to brew a beer on our Pilot System and share it with the locals at our taprooms,
