Yesterday, after viewing another Sprinter van with an eye on building it out as a camper, I figured – I’ve driven forty-five minutes to get down here, it’s early afternoon, there’s a mess of breweries in the area I have yet to visit – let’s pick one!
Unfortunately, two in the immedate area (one basically across the street from the van location!) didn’t open for another two hours. Meh. But fortunately, another one a few minutes west of me was already open, and had some food options, so, winner by default!
Platt Park Brewing Company (which started out as Denver Pearl Brewing Company, switching names a few months in) opened on Pearl Street in Denver in 2014. I feel kind of bad that it took me this long to get here, but I simply don’t get down to this part of Denver very often.
Late in 2019, they took over a small street-facing section of the space next door, and added Gates Deli & Grog, serving up sandwiches and “not sandwiches” (salads, nachos, wings) both to customers in the brewery and to passers-by via a walk-up window.
Platt Park has a good dozen or so beers on tap at any given time, it appears, and they’ve got a very reasonable flight option – pick any six tasters for $12.
Despite the curious name of “Hallelujah! Holy Sh*t! Where’s the Tylenol”, and my plans to snarf down some food, I opted to skip this 10.3% ABV barleywine this go-around.
Today’s sampler included:
Nadare (a Japanese-style lager brewed with puffed Jasmine rice);
Tropical Snow Dance, a West Coast IPA brewed with Mosaic;
Plattmosphere, a New England IPA;
Blackberry Sour, a very tasty Berliner Weisse;
Platt Park Porter, a nice roasty coffee porter;
and The Moo Lab, a chocolate milk stout brewed with chocolate from Deiter’s Chocolate, one of Platt Park’s neighbors just down the street.
Everything was quite good, though The Moo Lab left me kind of wanting. It didn’t have the usual milk stout feel to me; I expect that’s due to the type of chocolate they used.
On the food front, I ordered their “Thicc” turkey, bacon and avocaodo sandwich – and it’s very aptly named. I ended up taking half of that slab home with me!
This was my 404th brewery check in Untappd, and I’ll definitely be returning to this establishment in the future.
