Dry Dock Brewing Company is a brewery

Brewery

A brewery is a dedicated building for the making of beer, though beer can be made at home, and has been for much of beer's history. A company which makes beer is called either a brewery or a brewing company....

 located in southeast Aurora

Aurora, Colorado

City of Aurora is a Home Rule Municipality spanning Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties in Colorado. Aurora is an eastern suburb of the Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area . The city is the third most populous city in the Colorado and the 56th most populous city in the...

, Colorado

Colorado

Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

. Since opening, Dry Dock has won awards from both the World Beer Cup

World Beer Cup

The World Beer Cup, known as "The Olympics of Beer Competition", is one of several major international beer competitions. It was founded by Association of Brewers President Charlie Papazian....

 and the Great American Beer Festival

Great American Beer Festival

The Great American Beer Festival is a three-day annual event hosted by the Brewers Association, held in Denver, Colorado, in mid to late September or early October. This year, 2011, the festival runs from 29 September through 1 October. The GABF brings visitors from around the world to sample more...

, winning Small Brewing Company of the Year in 2009 at the great American Beer Festival.

History

Dry Dock Brewing Company was created in October of 2005 when Kevin DeLange, owner of The Brew Hut homebrew shop, decided that his homebrew store would benefit from an attached brewery. With the help of homebrewer Kevin Kellogg, the two opened Dry Dock Brewing Company. After almost 4 years in a small unit adjacent to The Brew Hut, Dry Dock expanded to the end unit in the same strip mall, both increasing the tasting room area from 30 seats to over 80 and upgrading to a 7 barrel steam jacketed brew system. Dry Dock quickly outgrew its expansion, with another expansion planned.

Home Fleet

Name	Style	ABV% Alcohol by volume Alcohol by volume is a standard measure of how much alcohol is contained in an alcoholic beverage .The ABV standard is used worldwide....	IBU
H.M.S. Victory ESB	ESB	5.8	49
USS Enterprise	IPA India Pale Ale India Pale Ale or IPA is a style of beer within the broader category of pale ale. It was first brewed in England in the 19th century.The first known use of the expression "India pale ale" comes from an advertisement in the Liverpool Mercury newspaper published January 30, 1835...	6.4	63
Paragon Apricot Blonde	Fruit Beer	5.3	17
Urca Vanilla Porter	Spiced beer	5.5	33
H.M.S. Bounty Old Ale	Old Ale Old ale Old ale is a term commonly applied to dark, malty beers in England, generally above 5% abv, also to dark ales of any strength in Australia. Sometimes associated with stock ale or, archaically, keeping ale, in which the beer is held at the brewery....	6.5	35
Breakwater Pale Ale	Pale Ale Pale ale Pale ale is a beer which uses a warm fermentation and predominantly pale malt. It is one of the world's major beer styles.The higher proportion of pale malts results in a lighter colour. The term "pale ale" was being applied around 1703 for beers made from malts dried with coke, which resulted in a...	5.8	40
U-Boat Hefeweizen	Hefeweizen Weissbier Weissbier , also known as Weizenbier , is a Bavarian specialty beer in which a significant proportion of malted barley is replaced with malted wheat: a wheat beer. By German law, Weissbiers brewed in Germany must be top-fermented...	4.3	12
Seven Seas Double IPA	Imperial IPA	9.0	86

Visiting Vessels

Name	Style	ABV% Alcohol by volume Alcohol by volume is a standard measure of how much alcohol is contained in an alcoholic beverage .The ABV standard is used worldwide....	IBU
Yellow Submarine	Helles Pale lager Pale lager is a very pale to golden-coloured beer with a well attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness. The brewing process for this beer developed in the mid 19th century when Gabriel Sedlmayr took pale ale brewing techniques back to the Spaten Brewery in Germany and applied it...	5.0	20
Bismarck	Altbier Altbier Altbier is a German top-fermenting beer brewed in Düsseldorf and other parts of North Rhine-Westphalia.The name Altbier, which means old beer, refers to the pre-lager brewing method of using a warm top-fermenting yeast...	5.3	44
Lachlan's Quadrupel	Belgian Specialty Quadrupel Quadrupel is the brand name of a strong seasonal beer La Trappe Quadrupel brewed by De Koningshoeven Brewery in the Netherlands, the only Trappist brewing abbey not in Belgium...	11.1	30
Bill's Malted Milk Stout	Sweet Stout	7.2	22
Walt's Frambozen	Belgian Brown with Raspberries Lambic Lambic is a very distinctive type of beer brewed only in the Pajottenland region of Belgium and in Brussels itself at the Cantillon Brewery and museum...	5.4	17
Half Moon Pumpkin Ale	Pumpkin Ale Adjuncts Adjuncts are unmalted grains used in brewing beer which supplement the main mash ingredient , often with the intention of cutting costs, but sometimes to create an additional feature, such as better foam retention.- Definition :Ingredients which are standard for certain beers, such as wheat in a...	5.7	17
Whale Tail	Belgian Wit	4.2	20
Oaked ESB	Barrel Aged Beer	5.8	49
Topsail	Belgian Tripel Tripel Tripel is a term used by brewers mainly in the Low Countries, some other European countries, and the USA to describe a strong pale ale, loosely in the style of Westmalle Tripel. The origin of the term is unknown, though the main theory is that it indicates strength in some way...	8.5	30
Cream Ale	Cream Ale Cream ale Cream ale is a style of top-fermented American beer resembling a German Kölsch.Unrelated to cream ales, the term cream is also sometimes used to describe a texture of beers pressurized with nitrogen, allowing cans and take-home mini-kegs to resemble true draft beer...	4.4	18
Coconut Porter	Fruit Beer	5.5	33
Dunkelweisen	Dunkelweizen	4.5	16
Rhein River	German Pilsner	4.5	40
Overboard	Belgian Wit	4.2	20
Dunkelstilsken	Munich Dunkel Dunkel Dunkel, or Dunkles, is a dark German beer. Dunkel is the German word meaning dark, and dunkel beers typically range in colour from amber to dark reddish brown. They are characterized by their smooth malty flavour....	5.1	28
J-9's	Oatmeal Stout	6.6	30
Naked Porter	Brown Porter Porter (beer) Porter is a dark-coloured style of beer. The history and development of stout and porter are intertwined. The name was first used in the 18th century from its popularity with the street and river porters of London. It is generally brewed with dark malts...	5.5	33
Naked Vixen's Ale	Belgian Golden Strong	9.25	22
Briess CaraBrown	Brown Ale Brown ale Brown ale is a style of beer with a dark amber or brown colour. The term was first used by London brewers in the late 17th century to describe their products, such as mild ale, though the term had a rather different meaning than it does today...	5.4	25
Shallow Draft	Blonde Ale	5.0	20
Barnacle	Brown Ale Brown ale Brown ale is a style of beer with a dark amber or brown colour. The term was first used by London brewers in the late 17th century to describe their products, such as mild ale, though the term had a rather different meaning than it does today...	5.2	19
Vixen's	Belgian Golden Strong with Cherries	9.25	22
Three Heavy	Scottish Wee Heavy	9.5	20
Reveille	Coffee Stout	5.9	30
Köln Sunset	Kölsch-style Ale Kölsch (beer) Kölsch, also written Koelsch, is a local beer specialty brewed in Cologne, Germany. It is a clear beer with a bright straw-yellow hue, and it has a prominent, but not extreme, hoppiness. It is less bitter than the standard German pale lager. Furthermore, Kölsch is warm fermented at a temperature...	4.7	20
Mouettes Joignastes	Saison Saison Saison is the name originally given to low-alcohol pale ales brewed seasonally in farmhouses in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium, for farm workers during harvest season...	7.9	37
S.S. Minnow	Mild Ale Mild ale Mild ale is a low-gravity beer, or beer with a predominantly malty palate, that originated in Britain in the 17th century or earlier. Modern mild ales are mainly dark coloured with an abv of 3% to 3.6%, though there are lighter hued examples, as well as stronger examples reaching 6% abv and...	3.3	17
Close Call	Brown Ale Brown ale Brown ale is a style of beer with a dark amber or brown colour. The term was first used by London brewers in the late 17th century to describe their products, such as mild ale, though the term had a rather different meaning than it does today...	5.1	21
Big Hitter	English Barleywine Barley wine Barley wine or Barleywine is a beer style of strong ale originating in England. The first beer to be marketed as Barley Wine was Bass No. 1 Ale, around 1870...	9.3	47
Rahab	Belgian Dark Strong	9.4	32
Hanley's	Baltic Porter	10.8	64
Trafalgar	Braggot	12.2	25

Bottled Beers

Dry Dock has bottled three different beers to date: Immolator Doppelbock, Farmhouse Ale Saison and Seven Seas Double IPA. Immolator Doppelbock was bottled in December 2009 with limited release. Farmhouse Ale Saison was bottled in the Spring of 2010, also limited in its release. After purchasing a 6-head bottler, Dry Dock began bottling their Seven Seas Double IPA for release in the greater Denver

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

 area.

Future bottled beers include U-Boat Hefeweizen and Urca Vanilla Porter.

Firkin Friday

Each and every Friday, Dry Dock taps a special one-off firkin

Firkin

A firkin is an old English unit of volume. The name is derived from the Middle Dutch word vierdekijn, which means fourth, i.e. a quarter of a full-size barrel.Nor need you mind the serial ordealOf being watched from forty cellar holes...

, a cask-conditioned version of one of their available beers. Occasionally, the beers are conditioned with odd items such as wasabi and rice.

In 2010, Dry Dock served their Kölsch

Kölsch

Kölsch may refer to:*Kölsch , a beer speciality from Cologne, Germany*Kölsch language, a Ripuarian dialect spoken in Cologne*Historic Colognian, a predecessor of todays Kölsch language....

 from a watermelon and their Half Moon Pumpkin Ale through a locally-grown 208 lb pumpkin

Pumpkin

A pumpkin is a gourd-like squash of the genus Cucurbita and the family Cucurbitaceae . It commonly refers to cultivars of any one of the species Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita maxima, and Cucurbita moschata, and is native to North America...

.

Awards

Dry Dock's notoriety began in 2006 after one year in operation, won gold at the World Beer Cup

World Beer Cup

The World Beer Cup, known as "The Olympics of Beer Competition", is one of several major international beer competitions. It was founded by Association of Brewers President Charlie Papazian....

 for the H.M.S. Victory ESB. In 2008, Dry Dock won a Bronze for the HMS Bounty Old Ale at the World Beer Cup, following up with a Silver medal for the S.S. Minnow Mild ale at the Great American Beer Festival

Great American Beer Festival

The Great American Beer Festival is a three-day annual event hosted by the Brewers Association, held in Denver, Colorado, in mid to late September or early October. This year, 2011, the festival runs from 29 September through 1 October. The GABF brings visitors from around the world to sample more...

. For 2009 at the Great American Beer Festival, Dry Dock won a Gold medal for their Bismarck Alt and Silver medals for their Reines Märzen and U-Boat Hefeweizen, landing them Small Brewing Company and Small Brewing Company Brewer of the Year for 2009. At the 2010 World Beer Cup, Dry Dock walked away with a Silver medal for their 3 Heavy Wee Heavy Scottish Ale, along with 4 Silver medals at the 2010 Great American Beer Festival for their Docktoberfest Märzen, U-Boat Hefeweizen, Bismarck Alt and Whale Tail Wit.