On Saturday, February 8th we’re bringing the ruckus for Melvin Brewing (Alpine, WY) National 2x4 Day! We’ll have plenty of special tappings, Kung Fu on the big screen and Wu Tang on the speakers.
On Saturday, January 25th, Comrade Brewing Company will be taking over ALL 10 of our taps! Comrade won Small Brewing Company of the Year and GOLD medals for TWO of its IPAs at the 2019 Great American Beer Festival.
On Saturday, December 14th 4:00 - 10:00PM we're holding our annual Ugly Sweater Party!
On Saturday, July 20, 2019 we're celebrating 3 years of The Jailhouse Craft Beer Bar!
On Friday, June 28th join us for the Official Kickoff Party for the 3rd annual Rapids & Grass Beer Festival! We'll have special tappings from some of our favorite breweries in the West/Southwest including Beachwood Brewing & Blendery, Firestone Walker Brewing Co., Jester King Brewery, La Cumbre Brewing Co., and Sierra Nevada! Be sure to check all of these folks out at the festival too!
On Thursday, June 27th we are kicking off Rapids & Grass Beer Festival weekend early with a tap takeover from Wiley Roots Brewing Company and Outer Range Brewing Co. plus a Music Workshop from Coletrain Music Academy!
On Saturday, February 2nd we're once again bringing the ruckus for Melvin Brewing International 2x4 Day! We'll be slinging Melvin beers, bumpin Wu Tang, and getting generally rowdy on Groundhog's Day.
On Saturday, October 13th from 4:00 - 10:00 p.m. we're celebrating the Great American Beer Festival, BV style! Starting when we open, our taps will be filled with specialty and rare beers from breweries who sent beer to Colorado just for GABF!
On Saturday, July 21st we're celebrating our 2nd anniversary of The Jailhouse! We'll be tapping super special beers at 12:00 p.m. on the 21st and will likely be popping bottles as well. Come celebrate with us!
On Friday, June 8th from 6-8PM New Orleans street band St. Cinder will be live on our patio!
Travis McNamara of Trout Steak Revival will play a solo songwriter’s set on Thursday, May 31st.
We're bringing the ruckus once again as a host of Melvin Brewing's 2x4 Day! This year, the event is going international with 40 bars around the globe throwing one hell of a craft beer, kung fu, and Wu Tang party. Join us 4-10 p.m. at The Jailhouse, bring your A game and take Tuesday off 'cause we're going hard on a Monday!
On Friday, March 23rd 4 Noses Brewing Company is taking over our taps! Tommy Bibliowicz, Owner / Head Brewer, and Dustin Ramey, Director of Sales, from 4 Noses will also be in the house giving away brewery branded merch.
On Saturday, January 13th we're celebrating ski season (and hopefully not still praying for snow)! Melvin Brewing will be in the house with their NEW cans of TGR Pils-Gnar Pilsner with killer can art thanks to Teton Gravity Research. We'll be showing gnarbro ski movies, also thanks to TGR! And our good friend and pro skier Mark Morris of Rapidgrass will be playing a solo show to help with our snow dances.
No cover. Just drink beer!
On Saturday, December 16th we're throwing our second annual Ugly Sweater Party at The Jailhouse! Don your best holiday sweater (or outfit), drink Christmas themed beers and let Kellyanne Conway Stole My Bike (7-9 p.m.) serenade you!
On Thursday, December 7th from 5-8 p.m. drink your fill of Two Roads Brewing Company! They'll be taking over our taps and Lizzy Shpitalnik from Two Roads will be joining us for giveaways including FREE branded glassware and other brewery shwag!
On Saturday, October 28th we're celebrating Halloween at The Jailhouse! Join us 4:00 - 10:00 p.m. for a costume party, Halloween and fall themed beers, and LIVE MUSIC on the Watershed BV stage from Kellyanne Conway Stole My Bike 7:30-9:30!
On Saturday, October 14th we're tapping some very unique and rare beers from out-of-state brewers coming in for GABF. We'll be announcing our Draught List soon, but expect offerings from Jester King Brewing, American Solera, Alesong Brewing & Blending, Scratch Brewing, Lawson's Finest Liquids, Societe, Beachwood Blendery, Half Acre Beer Co, Fort George Brewery, and more!
All Colorado Oktoberfest will take place 12:00 - 10:00 p.m. at The Jailhouse Craft Beer Bar in Buena Vista, CO! We'll have all 10 taps filled with Colorado made German style beers, plus German style pizza from Crust BV, commemorative 1L steins, games, and more.
On Saturday, July 15th we're celebrating our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!! There will of course be beer. LOTS of beer. And LIVE MUSIC!
From 2-6 p.m. we're holding a mini beer festival with our friends Baere Brewing Company, Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales, Cerebral Brewing, Elevation Beer Company, and Melvin Brewing in the Watershed BV lot. $20 gets you unlimited tasting from these breweries as well as access to live music from The River Arkansas and Augustus on the outdoor stage!
The bar will also be open from 12-10 p.m. with a killer taplist. Service as usual inside.
This has been an amazing year, we hope you come celebrate with us!
The First Annual Rapids & Grass Beer Festival will take place on Saturday, July 1, 2017 along the banks of the Arkansas River with 40+ craft breweries, bluegrass music, camping, and rafting.
Elevation Beer Company has started canning! We're celebrating with a can release party at The Jailhouse on Wednesday, May 24th. When we open at 4pm, we'll have $3 cans of 8 Second Kolsch, First Cast IPA, Wave Wheel Wit, and Little Mo' Porter! FREE brewery koozie for the first 50 cans sold!
From 6 - 8 p.m. we'll have FREE live music from Kevin Galloway of Uncle Lucius!
On Saturday, April 1st we're getting nerdy! Join us for special tappings of Wicked Weed Brewing (Asheville, NC), Mikkeller (Denmark), Omnipollo (Sweden), and Cerebral (Denver, CO)! We'll also have breakfast snacks while they last.
On Friday, March 17th we're celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a Comrade Brewing Company tap takeover and live music from The Savage Boyos (aka Fred, Tom, Brady, Autry)!
On Saturday, February 18th Bierstadt Lagerhaus (Denver, CO) is taking over The Jailhouse. When we open at 12pm, Slow Pour Pils, Helles, Bock and Baltic Porter will be on tap. Around 5pm, drink and mingle with Bierstadt owners/brewers Bill Eye & Ashleigh Carter.
On Saturday, February 4th we will host Melvin Brewing 2x4 Day! The Jailhouse is one of 30ish bars in 3 countries to be chosen as a host, pretty cool!
We'll have 9 Melvin brews on tap, Wu Tang music and Kung Fu on the projector - costumes are ENCOURAGED!!! Dress up like your favorite Wu Tang member or rock a ninja outfit. Be sure to take photos and post to social media with hashtag #2x4
DRAUGHT LIST:
2x4 Double IPA
Melvin IPA
Hubert MPA
Citradamus IIPA
Lambda Triple IPA
Drunken Master IIPA
Asterisk IIPA
Carlton Cascadian Dark Ale
Pilsgnar Hoppy Pilsner
More info: www.2x4man.com
On Saturday, January 28th from 12 - 10 p.m., we'll be doing a mini tap takeover with Wicked Weed Brewing out of Asheville, NC!
On Saturday, December 17th we're celebrating the holiday season with an Ugly Sweater party 5-10 PM! We'll be doing a mini tap takeover with Elevation Beer Company and Wit's End Brewing Company and will also have other Christmas themed and dark & boozy offerings on tap. Elevation will be in house raffling off some swag including brewery branded ugly sweaters!
Local favorites Fred & Tom will be in the house serenading us with Christmas themed music and other fun gems.
**DRAUGHT LIST COMING SOON**
On Saturday, October 22nd we're bringing a taste of the Great American Beer Festival to Buena Vista! When we open at Noon, all 10 taps will be filled with special beers from out-of-state breweries plus some medal winning CO beers too. You don't want to miss this, trust us. Beer list below:
DRAUGHT
Beachwood BBQ and Brewing, Amalgamator IPA
Bell's Brewery, Uberon - Imperial Oberon aged in Bourbon Barrels
Lawson's Finest Liquids, Sip of Sunshine IPA
Melvin Brewing, Asterisk Double IPA
Scratch Brewing Company, Gooseberry Saison
Societe Brewing Company, The Apprentice Saison
4 Noses Brewing Company, Pump Action Imperial Pumpkin Ale (2016 GABF Gold & 2016 World Beer Cup Gold)
Cannonball Creek Brewing Company, Solid Gold Belgian Style Golden Ale (2016 GABF Gold)
Cerebral Brewing, Chardonnay Barrel Aged Dreamy Thing (Non barrel aged Dreamy Thing won 2016 GABF Silver)
Telluride Brewing Co. Face Down Brown (2016 GABF Bronze)
BOTTLE POURS
Baere Brewing Company, Brett Saison (Saison won 2016 GABF Bronze)
Blackberry Farm Brewery, Saison (Brett Saison won 2016 GABF Silver)
Cerebral Brewing, Monochrome Grisette (the brewery's first ever bottle release)
