Fiction Beer Company Parker opens doors

BY RACHEL LORENZ SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Great beer with a great concept is what took Christopher Belila from a Fiction Beer Company customer to an employee and, nally, a proprietor.

“It’s something unique,” the majority owner of Parker’s newest brewery and taphouse told Colorado Community Media. “Fiction Beer: books, beer, book clubs, book sales.” e 2,600-square-foot space in the Country Meadows Square shopping center is Fiction Beer Company’s second location. e rst, owned by Ryan and Christa Kilpa trick, opened in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood in 2014.

Hours after receiving its liquor license on May 23, Fiction Beer Company Parker debuted in the former home of Welcome Home Brewery near the intersection of Hess Road and South Parker Road. It was “absolutely thrilling” to see his bar in action and customers occupying its padded vegan leather seats, enjoying themselves, Belila said. He sold 251 pours that rst evening.

Both places pay homage not just to the craft of making beer but to the literary world as well. Each taproom has a bar adorned with the spines of real books, a lending library and a list of beers inspired by literary works.

In addition to bar seating, a long community table and plenty of two tops, the Parker spot has a few reading nooks, complete with cozy chairs, and a living-room-like setup behind the brewery’s double-sided replace.

If You Go

Fiction Beer Company Parker is at 19523 Hess Road in Parker. It’s open seven days a week — from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 2 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. on Sunday.

“I like to call us a brewery lounge. … We wanted it to have a very comfortable feeling where people just want to spend time drinking great beer,” Belila said of the interior’s clean lines and sleek nishes that he designed