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Cannonball Creek Brewing celebrated their 13th anniversary this past weekend. While it may seem as if Golden has always been awash with breweries, it wasn’t always this way. Coors was established in 1873. After that, we waited 120 years for Golden City Brewery, which opened in 1993.

The tidal wave of breweries began in 2013:

2013 Cannonball Creek Brewing
2013 Mountain Toad Brewing
2013 Barrels & Bottles
2016 Holidaily
2016 New Terrain Brewing
2018 Coda Brewing
2019 Over Yonder Brewing (closed 2025)
2024 Mad Mack's Brewing

Eagle Brewing Company as shown in the 1893 Golden Globe Industrial Edition This was located at 11th and Washington–now the site of the Golden Hotel.


The historic Colorado Transcripts and Golden Globes inform us that there was an earlier “Golden City Brewery” in the 1860s and the “Eagle Brewing Company” in the 1890s.

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