Grateful Dead-themed bar forced to close for 90 days, loses brewing and live-music licenses for a year

Denver’s So Many Roads Brewery has been ordered to close for 90 days and, upon reopening, will not be allowed to brew its own beer or hold live music performances for the next year as part of a new settlement with the city.

It’s the latest in a string of attempts to preserve the troubled, Grateful Dead-themed bar’s business, which for more than two years has been the subject of underage alcohol-sale and drug dealing investigations by the Denver Police Department, and before that, complaints and picketing over the alleged misdeeds of former co-owner Jay Bianchi.

Earlier this month, the city’s liquor licensing department took the highly unusual step of rejecting a settlement with So Many Roads owner Tyler Bishop that had been brokered with the City Attorney’s Of...