For anyone who's gone brewery hopping in Denver, Colorado, you know how lively and enjoyable that can be in one of the US' preeminent beer towns. Wish generations of brewers all working alongside each other, Denver has a brewing history and a status unlike any other. 

But if you're like me, you've also noticed some common, maybe too common, themes in Denver breweries. Lots of IPAs, outdoorsiness, and that sort of early 2000s don't try to hard aesthetic in the form of picnic tables and raw wood and concrete that passes for authenticity unquestioned among craft enthusiasts. And let's face it, some of its real, some of its not.

So when Trve brewing popped up on the scene, it was a violation of the sort of Pleasantville-like quality of the Denver scene in more ways that one. 

He was making yeast-driven beers with a heavy metal theme and in a neighborhood far from the sparkle in Denver's eye. Much has changed since then, but mostly in ways that continue to put Trve brewing at the edge of a still somewhat monoculture beer scene, as good as it is, with a few great exceptions. 

And in this next phase, Founder Nick Nunns is going to make things even weirder.