Technically this shouldn't be part of the Colorado Brewpub Tour, as The Great Divide isn't a brewpub, but I'll make an exception for something this good.
The Great Divide is located just a few blocks from right field at Coors Field (and therefore about 8 blocks from Wynkoop) in what our best guess is an old repair shop from the early 1900s. Obviously there has been a lot of re-purposing of rooms in the building, but everything about the place is, in my opinion, awesome.
Our entire trip ended up having a bunch of random things happen to us that we didn't plan out. Two of those things happened here. The first was small, about five minutes after we walked into the tap room, we found out they were giving their last tour of the day. Brewery tour that I can bring beer on? Deal. The second was pretty cool, and probably something that will never happen again. We were sitting at the bar in the tap room talking and struck up a small conversation with the bartender. As we're talking to him, a guy walks up to the corner of the bar (we were sitting right by the door) and tells the bartender, "I work across the street and we have these two tickets to the game (Rockies vs. Cubs) tonight that we can't use, can you give them away?". Bartender says, "Sure", guy walks out, bartender turns to us, "Want a couple tickets?". Free baseball? Sure! Especially after getting drenched at the game the night before.
Food: None. Zip. Zilch. Well, maybe some nuts or pretzels if you ask nicely. Not really sure.
Beer: Amazing. Three months later I can barely remember all of the beers we tried. Hades, Titan, Hoss, Yeti... probably a couple more that were only available at their tap room. The best way to describe their beer is to say when you taste it, you can tell it is brewed not only by someone that knows what they are doing, but by someone who loves beer.
The Great Divide currently distributes their beers to approximately 20-25 different states. Unfortunately, Wisconsin is not one of them. Luckily though, Illinois is one of them, and there are a few places very close to her parents house that have their beer!
I highly recommend trying Yeti (Imperial Stout) and Hibernation Ale (Winter Seasonal), but you really can't go wrong with anything in my opinion.
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