Halfpenny Brewing Co. will soon be fully closed.
The Centennial beer maker, which opened in 2016, is set to serve its final pints this Saturday at 5150 E. Arapahoe Road.
“Our lease is up shortly and we have made the difficult decision to close the taproom so that we can focus on selling the equipment and getting everything wrapped up,” owners Chris Reigrut and Chris Garner wrote in a Tuesday Facebook post.
Reigrut was raised in Germany, according to Halfpenny’s website. And Garner’s great-grandfather was a Pennsylvania brewer and distiller who had to shutter his operation during Prohibition.
The two, who have been best friends since high school, started homebrewing nearly two decades before they opened the Centennial spot. Both are engineers, according to their LinkedIn profiles, with Reigrut working for Amazon and Garner for Qwest.
“When we started, our goal was to share our passion for beer, and bring some of the community and togetherness from German gasthauses and English pubs to Centennial,” they wrote in the post. “And we feel like we’ve been successful in that respect.”
The taproom serves six “flagship” brews along with a rotating cast of seasonal specials, per Halfpenny’s website. It offered a handful of food options, along with rotating food trucks.
Patrons could enjoy their beer in one of the space’s three areas: a German-style beer hall with long, communal tables, an American open seating section and a more intimate setting called “The Snug,” its website shows.
Westword reported the taproom was 2,000 square feet at the time Halfpenny opened. The brewery’s total footprint, including production space, is 5,250 square feet, according to the shopping center’s property manager.
