Author: By STEPHANIE EARLS [email protected]

This time last year, a certain subset of Front Range beer fans was fondly rehashing, and perhaps still recovering from, a Saturday of fun at Bristol Brewing Co.’s sold-out Firkin Rendezvous, the annual showcase of specialty cask-conditioned one-offs — a “brew fest for brewers” — and fundraiser for the Colorado Brewers Guild. Little did revelers…

Matt Dettmann didn’t set out to take over a business in the middle of a pandemic. But when you’re an entrepreneur with an eye for opportunity, and serendipity seems to drop one in your lap, you try not to let timing stand in the way. “Even in a perfect economy, risk is high,” said Dettmann,…