Boese Brothers takes advantage of slower times to add something new to its menu

Back when we sent out requests for interview times for our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series, a few breweries turned us down this year, mainly due to the simple exhaustion of talking about the pandemic and its wide-ranging effects over and over again.

A few other breweries just asked us to wait a while until a clearer picture of the future appeared. One of those was Boese Brothers Brewery, and after giving them the time that they requested, co-owner George Boese invited me over to talk about what they have been up to in the last year-plus of business.

The obvious major change is apparent right when you walk into the original brewery taproom downtown at Gold and Sixth Street — a cocktail menu and spirits bottles on the bar.

“That’s definitely our biggest change from the year before was during the pandemic we used that downtime to navigate the considerable red tape around operating a distillery,”

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