Turquoise Trail Brewing comes back strong after a rocky year

Turquoise Trail Brewing had been open a mere seven months before the now infamous shutdown of 2020, and owner Sean Lawson entered a time which he described as a “big ol’ shitshow.”

In the brewery’s short history, Sean leased the building space on Central and Elizabeth back in August 2018, and was carrying it month to month before the brewery finally opened for business in June 2019. In February 2020, he had almost made it to the break-even point when the pandemic hit. Attendance started to wane, and, “The rest is just … you know how it goes,” Sean said.

The brewery remained open for packaged to-go beers throughout 2020, and for much of that time, Sean was going it alone, doing everything from brewing to cleaning to taproom sales to bookkeeping, just to stay in business.

In January 2021, Sean said he ran out of cash. Not wanting to put h

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