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title: "Best Brewery Happy Hours in Denver" description: "Denver is one of the great craft beer cities — Prost Brewing Company, Black Shirt Brewing Co and Craft Pizza Kitchen, Denver Beer Co. Platte Street, Crooked Stave Brewing Company, and more run happy hours that make the city's brewery scene even more worth exploring." date: "2026-02-18" author: "FindHappyHours" tags: ["happy hour", "denver", "brewery", "craft beer", "taproom"] image: "https://loremflickr.com/1200/630/denver,brewery?lock=8"

Best Brewery Happy Hours in Denver

Denver has a serious claim to being one of the best craft beer cities in the country. The taproom per capita numbers are remarkable, the brewing culture goes back decades, and unlike some beer cities that peaked in the first wave of the craft revolution, Denver's scene has kept evolving.

Most of Denver's breweries also run happy hours — usually the simplest, most honest format in the city: a few dollars off your pint, no small print.

Here's where to start.

The Best Brewery Happy Hours

Prost Brewing Company — Highlands

2540 19th St

Prost is the German-style biergarten in LoHi that's become one of the most beloved brewery experiences in Denver. The happy hour structure is good: half-liter Biergarten Lager at $5, frozen margarita at $8 (yes, at a German brewery — Denver is like that), and $1 off all beer, cocktails, wine, cider, and seltzer across the menu. Food deals include Chips & Dip at $5 and Pretzel Bites at $5.

The outdoor patio is the main event — communal tables, half-liter pours, the feeling of a proper biergarten rather than a taproom with extra decor. Best brewery patio in Denver, not particularly close.

Black Shirt Brewing Co and Craft Pizza Kitchen — RiNo

3719 Walnut St

The beer-and-pizza brewery concept is not new, but Black Shirt does it well and prices it right during happy hour: $2 off 16oz pours, $2 off Garlic Nots and small specialty pies, $4 off large specialty pies. The pizza is made in the same kitchen as the beer — not an afterthought, a real pizza operation.

Black Shirt is a workhorse happy hour spot in RiNo. Not the most Instagram-worthy brewery in the neighborhood, but one of the most reliable value plays.

Denver Beer Co. Platte Street — Highlands

1695 Platte St

Denver Beer Co. Platte Street is one of the original craft breweries in the LoHi/Platte Street area and has maintained its quality and community feel through the growth of the neighborhood around it. Happy hour: all pints and seltzers at $5. The Platte Street location sits right on the bike path and river corridor, making it the ideal post-ride, post-walk, or just-because stop.

Crooked Stave Brewing Company — Sunnyside

1441 W 46th Ave

Crooked Stave Brewing Company is one of Denver's most respected brewing operations, known for sour ales and wild-fermented beers that require actual patience and skill to produce. Happy hour runs $2 off full pours across all beers — meaningful savings when Crooked Stave Brewing Company's beers regularly run $8-12 per pour.

This is the beer nerd brewery. If someone in your group actually cares about wild fermentation and brett character, Crooked Stave Brewing Company is the answer.

Wynkoop Brewing Company — LoDo

1634 18th St

Wynkoop is Denver's original brewpub — the first craft brewery in Colorado, opened in 1988, and still operating in its original location near Union Station. It's a piece of Denver brewing history, and the LoDo location makes it an easy add to any downtown drinking evening. Check their site for current happy hour specials.

Briar Common Brewery + Eatery — Highlands

2298 Clay St

Briar Common is a full-service brewery restaurant in LoHi with the full food-and-beer concept executed properly. Check their website for current happy hour specials — the combination of kitchen food and house-brewed beer in a comfortable room makes this a go-to for people who want a complete meal alongside their pints.

Hogshead Brewery — Berkeley

4460 W 29th Ave

Hogshead is a Berkeley neighborhood brewery that brings traditional British-style cask ales to Denver — a niche within a niche, but worth knowing about if you're exploring the West side. Check their site for taproom hours and any current specials.

Cohesion Brewing — Five Points

3851 Steele St

Cohesion specializes in Czech-style lagers — Pilsners and pale lagers fermented and lagered the traditional way, which takes more time and care than most American craft beer. Check their site for happy hour details. If you've never had a proper Czech Pils from a brewery that actually knows what it's doing, Cohesion is the place.

Strange Craft Beer Company — Baker

1330 Zuni St

Strange Craft is in Baker on Zuni Street, serving the neighborhood with a rotating small-brewery lineup. Check their site for current hours and happy hour pricing.

Station 26 Brewing Co. — Park Hill

7045 E 38th Ave

Station 26 is the Park Hill neighborhood's home brewery — a community taproom on the east side of the city that serves as an anchor for a neighborhood that doesn't have many bar options. Check their site for current happy hour deals.

Odell Brewing Five Points Brewhouse — RiNo

2945 Larimer St

Odell is a Fort Collins institution that's been brewing since 1989, and the Denver outpost at 29th and Larimer brings the full Odell quality to the RiNo brewery corridor. Check their site for current specials.

Ratio Beerworks — RiNo

2920 Larimer St

Ratio is one of the anchor craft breweries in RiNo, known for a consistent core lineup and a taproom designed for the neighborhood. Check their site for happy hour timing and pricing.

The Brewery Crawl

Denver's brewery scene is dense enough in certain neighborhoods to support a brewery crawl. The RiNo corridor on Larimer and Walnut has Black Shirt Brewing Co and Craft Pizza Kitchen, Odell Brewing Five Points Brewhouse, and Ratio Beerworks all within walking distance. The Highlands area has Prost Brewing Company, Denver Beer Co. Platte Street, Briar Common Brewery + Eatery, and Zuni Street Brewing Company all within a short drive or rideshare.

For a dedicated brewery afternoon: start at Prost Brewing Company for the biergarten experience (around 3-4pm), walk to Denver Beer Co. Platte Street for round two, then decide if the evening extends to the RiNo corridor via a short rideshare.

That's six hours and four breweries, which is a proper Denver afternoon.