Signs that craft brewing has turned a page on the boom-time chapters are hard to ignore, even for those sporting the rosiest of glasses.

For not the first time in recent memory, more breweries closed than opened over a six-month period in Colorado, according to a 2025 mid-year report from the Boulder-based Brewers Association.

A number of high-profile closures and sale announcements in Colorado Springs and Denver — perhaps, just down the street from wherever you live in the Centennial State — have spurred some to speculate about the overall health of the industry.

Insiders, however, say that while the tides are certainly shifting, the undertow isn’t as strong or as bad as it might seem.

“I think that's one of the challenges that we've had with this has been so much press about sort of

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