J Wells Brewery: Putting the ‘Micro’ in ‘Microbrewery’
Think about the biggest brewery you have ever been to. For many Coloradans, that answer is pretty easy: just take Highway 93 from Boulder to Golden. Yeah, you know who I’m talking about. The Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado has a brewing capacity of some 13 million barrels annually, which comes out to something like 410 million gallons of beer. Holy alcohol, Batman! Okay, maybe that’s a little too big to conceive. Consider, then, the largest microbrewery you’ve been to. New Belgium? Sam Adams? Avery? While still at only a fraction of the global production that MillerCoors pumps out, these places still have millions of barrels of suds being brewed every year. Now, consider the absolute opposite side of the commercial beer spectrum. Consider a place like J Wells Brewery, a tiny microbrewery (or nano-brewery, as some would call it), hidden in east Boulder.
Just east of Flatirons Parkway, off of Pearl, right behind the Toyota dealership, sits the tiny garage that holds the entirety of the J Wells Brewing operation. Alongside several other small
companies, you’d be hard-pressed to find this place on accident. Even though I’ve drank at J Wells a number of times, …read more
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