Arvada’s Odyssey Beerwerks Is a Kid-Free Zone

Odyssey Beerwerks will celebrate its tenth anniversary the weekend of May 19, and your children are not invited.

The brewery, located at 5535 West 56th Avenue in Arvada, may have started the adults-only policy during the pandemic, but the debate about having children in the brewery began well before COVID hit. “Two different times I watched toddlers walking between the cars, and their parents had to grab them by the arm because a car was flying by,” says Chris Hill, who owns Odyssey with his wife, Deana. “Where we’re located, there are fleet-based businesses on [both sides of us].”

Not everybody gets that, or accepts it. Despite having dozens of breweries within ten minutes of Odyssey that allow children, most of the negative reviews that it has received recently stem from the…