Stapleton Tap House, which opened in 2014 as an oasis in the craft-beer desert that was the Stapleton neighborhood, will close on Friday, July 21. Tucked into a strip of eateries and shops at 8286 Northfield Boulevard, alongside the Harkins Northfield 18 movie theater, the small tap house will continue its regular hours until the closing date.

Co-owner Michael Kearns’s focus has been on introducing customers to small-batch craft beer made by breweries that they might not otherwise have heard of or had a chance to visit. At the time he opened the tap house, he called it the “Colorado craft-beer visitors’ center” approach.

Stapleton Tap House Closing After Four Years in Northfield

“I love it out here in Stapleton,” adds Kearns, who is also a real estate agent specializing in the neighborhood, “but we just don’t have the foot traffic of being in a LoDo or RiNo and other areas where people are exploring.”

Michael Kearns previously co-owned Stapleton Tap House and has worked as a real estate agent specializing in real estate in the neighborhood.

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