Westbound & Down Brewing buys two other Colorado beer makers

Westbound & Down Brewing has laid out a new roadmap for Colorado craft breweries over the past few years, and it will follow the directions on that map even further west beginning today.

The company has just purchased two other Colorado beer makers: Aspen Brewing, with its brand-new, 7,000-barrel-capacity production facility near the Pitkin County Airport; and Capitol Creek Brewery in Basalt, according to a statement released Friday afternoon. Both had been owned by High Country Brewing LLC, an investment firm that acquired them in 2019 and 2021.

“We have had a goal for some time to open more brewpub locations and have always kept an ear to the ground for locations that might make sense,” said Jake Gardner, Westbound & Down’s director of brewery operations and one of its operating partners, in a statement.

“Although we were ...