Saturday was the last day of operation for Frontier Brewing Company and Taproom in downtown Casper, one of the city’s first craft breweries.

Co-owner Shawn Houck says national trends like people drinking less alcohol, along with a huge spike in local competition, are contributing factors in the closure.

While Frontier was the only operational craft brewery in Casper in 2017 when it opened its doors, there are now 10 breweries in Casper, five of them — soon to be six — located downtown.

“It just wasn’t a sustainable financial situation for us to continue,” Houck told Oil City News . “We own the building, so paying the mortgage and insurance and all of those things, it was just a little more than we could all stomach as partners, and we made the decision to just go ahead and cease op

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