Brewery

Morningwood Wheat
our unique recipe produces an easy to drink, light beer.  Unfiltered and served with lemon,
 this wheat is a local’s favorite.

Scottish Ale (formerly known as Kiltlifter)
dark amber in color, medium bodied, with a smooth, sweet malty flavor and a clean finish.

Pallavicini Pilsner
light in color, our pilsner is brewed in classic Bohemian style, well balanced with Nobel hops and a crisp dry finish.

Ryan's Irish Stout
smooth, dark, full of flavor and nitrogen pushed for a creamy head

Scottish Ale (formerly known as Kiltlifter)
Colorado State Fair : Gold- 2004, Silver- 2006, Bronze- 2003,2005
Great American Beer Fest: Bronze- 2006

Pallavicini Pilsner
Colorado State Fair : Silver- 2004, Bronze- 2007
North American Beer Awards: Gold- 2005, Silver- 2007
Great American Beer Fest : Gold- 2005, Silver- 2007

Beer to go:
Take some home today
(to go beer sales are not available after midnight or on Sundays)
6 pack $8.00           
½ gallon jug  $11.50  refills $7.00

Pug Ryan's to can medal-winning beer - 12/1/04

DILLON - There's a certain allure to popping open a can of suds at home after a long day working or skiing. Glass can break and hanging out in a bar can be expensive, so aluminum storage is sometimes preferred. The one catch is the lack of a good, local microbrew in a can. Enter Pug Ryan's.

The Dillon-based brewery has purchased a canning apparatus and will be installing it this month to distribute its award-winning Morningwood Wheat. The beer won a silver medal at the 2003 Great American Beer Festival in October. "As far as I know, we're only the fourth microbrewery in Colorado to can their beer," said Dave Simmons, brewer at Pug Ryan's.

According to Simmons, he got the idea while flying across the country on Frontier Airlines. Among the choices for in-flight beverages was beer from Oscar Blues, a microbrewery in Lyons. "It just got my attention," Simmons said. "It's something new and different for the microbrews, and that's a big plus in my eyes."

Pug Ryan's recently acquired the space formerly occupied by Diane's Designs T-shirt shop, which was adjacent to the restaurant. "(The space) is right across from the kitchen, so we can expand the kitchen and have room for the canner," Simmons said.

Simmons planned on canning the wheat even before the beer won a silver medal. "It was good timing for everything," he said. "We have the equipment on order." Simmons expects to have everything up and running before the end of winter.

The initial process of designing a can for the beer is completed and now that can design is in the hands of the Federal Drug Administration, going through an approval process that all alcohol containers must go through. From there, Simmons faces his biggest challenge - finding a place to put the 133,000 preprinted cans that come with the canner.

Initially, the beer will be sold out of Pug Ryan's. After smoothing out the kinks, Simmons expects to be able to sell the canned product out of Pug Ryan's sister restaurant, The Blue Spruce Inn in Frisco. From there, Simmons hopes to distribute the product to liquor stores throughout the state. "It's been a whirlwind of activity," he said.