Craft Beer Bar
The Jailhouse is a craft beer bar located in the historic 1880s jailhouse in Buena Vista, Colorado. Featuring 10 rotating taps of craft beers from across Colorado, the United States, and abroad, plus bottles, cans, and wine, The Jailhouse offers something for every palate.
Spend your weekend along the Arkansas River sampling beers from some of the best breweries in the country, jamming to an incredible lineup of bluegrass music, and taking in the sweeping mountain views.
On Friday, June 8th from 6-8PM New Orleans street band St. Cinder will be live on our patio!
Travis McNamara of Trout Steak Revival will play a solo songwriter’s set on Thursday, May 31st.
We're bringing the ruckus once again as a host of Melvin Brewing's 2x4 Day! This year, the event is going international with 40 bars around the globe throwing one hell of a craft beer, kung fu, and Wu Tang party. Join us 4-10 p.m. at The Jailhouse, bring your A game and take Tuesday off 'cause we're going hard on a Monday!
On Friday, March 23rd 4 Noses Brewing Company is taking over our taps! Tommy Bibliowicz, Owner / Head Brewer, and Dustin Ramey, Director of Sales, from 4 Noses will also be in the house giving away brewery branded merch.
On Saturday, January 13th we're celebrating ski season (and hopefully not still praying for snow)! Melvin Brewing will be in the house with their NEW cans of TGR Pils-Gnar Pilsner with killer can art thanks to Teton Gravity Research. We'll be showing gnarbro ski movies, also thanks to TGR! And our good friend and pro skier Mark Morris of Rapidgrass will be playing a solo show to help with our snow dances.
No cover. Just drink beer!
On Saturday, December 16th we're throwing our second annual Ugly Sweater Party at The Jailhouse! Don your best holiday sweater (or outfit), drink Christmas themed beers and let Kellyanne Conway Stole My Bike (7-9 p.m.) serenade you!
On Thursday, December 7th from 5-8 p.m. drink your fill of Two Roads Brewing Company! They'll be taking over our taps and Lizzy Shpitalnik from Two Roads will be joining us for giveaways including FREE branded glassware and other brewery shwag!
On Saturday, October 28th we're celebrating Halloween at The Jailhouse! Join us 4:00 - 10:00 p.m. for a costume party, Halloween and fall themed beers, and LIVE MUSIC on the Watershed BV stage from Kellyanne Conway Stole My Bike 7:30-9:30!
On Saturday, October 14th we're tapping some very unique and rare beers from out-of-state brewers coming in for GABF. We'll be announcing our Draught List soon, but expect offerings from Jester King Brewing, American Solera, Alesong Brewing & Blending, Scratch Brewing, Lawson's Finest Liquids, Societe, Beachwood Blendery, Half Acre Beer Co, Fort George Brewery, and more!
All Colorado Oktoberfest will take place 12:00 - 10:00 p.m. at The Jailhouse Craft Beer Bar in Buena Vista, CO! We'll have all 10 taps filled with Colorado made German style beers, plus German style pizza from Crust BV, commemorative 1L steins, games, and more.
On Saturday, July 15th we're celebrating our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!! There will of course be beer. LOTS of beer. And LIVE MUSIC!
From 2-6 p.m. we're holding a mini beer festival with our friends Baere Brewing Company, Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales, Cerebral Brewing, Elevation Beer Company, and Melvin Brewing in the Watershed BV lot. $20 gets you unlimited tasting from these breweries as well as access to live music from The River Arkansas and Augustus on the outdoor stage!
The bar will also be open from 12-10 p.m. with a killer taplist. Service as usual inside.
This has been an amazing year, we hope you come celebrate with us!
The First Annual Rapids & Grass Beer Festival will take place on Saturday, July 1, 2017 along the banks of the Arkansas River with 40+ craft breweries, bluegrass music, camping, and rafting.
On Wednesday, May 24th Kevin Galloway of the band Uncle Lucius will be playing a solo set from 6-8pm! Salida local Catfish Waldrip will be opening. No cover. Just drink beer.
Elevation Beer Company has started canning! We're celebrating with a can release party at The Jailhouse on Wednesday, May 24th. When we open at 4pm, we'll have $3 cans of 8 Second Kolsch, First Cast IPA, Wave Wheel Wit, and Little Mo' Porter! FREE brewery koozie for the first 50 cans sold!
From 6 - 8 p.m. we'll have FREE live music from Kevin Galloway of Uncle Lucius!
On Thursday, April 20th Denver based acoustic rock musician, Andrew Wynne, will play from 7-9pm! No cover, just drink beer.
On Saturday, April 1st we're getting nerdy! Join us for special tappings of Wicked Weed Brewing (Asheville, NC), Mikkeller (Denmark), Omnipollo (Sweden), and Cerebral (Denver, CO)! We'll also have breakfast snacks while they last.
On Friday, March 17th we're celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a Comrade Brewing Company tap takeover and live music from The Savage Boyos (aka Fred, Tom, Brady, Autry)!
On Saturday, March 4th Travis McNamara of the band Trout Steak Revival will be playing a FREE solo set from 7:00 - 9:00 PM!
On Saturday, February 18th Bierstadt Lagerhaus (Denver, CO) is taking over The Jailhouse. When we open at 12pm, Slow Pour Pils, Helles, Bock and Baltic Porter will be on tap. Around 5pm, drink and mingle with Bierstadt owners/brewers Bill Eye & Ashleigh Carter.
On Saturday, February 4th we will host Melvin Brewing 2x4 Day! The Jailhouse is one of 30ish bars in 3 countries to be chosen as a host, pretty cool!
We'll have 9 Melvin brews on tap, Wu Tang music and Kung Fu on the projector - costumes are ENCOURAGED!!! Dress up like your favorite Wu Tang member or rock a ninja outfit. Be sure to take photos and post to social media with hashtag #2x4
DRAUGHT LIST:
2x4 Double IPA
Melvin IPA
Hubert MPA
Citradamus IIPA
Lambda Triple IPA
Drunken Master IIPA
Asterisk IIPA
Carlton Cascadian Dark Ale
Pilsgnar Hoppy Pilsner
More info: www.2x4man.com
On Saturday, January 28th from 12 - 10 p.m., we'll be doing a mini tap takeover with Wicked Weed Brewing out of Asheville, NC!
On Saturday, December 17th we're celebrating the holiday season with an Ugly Sweater party 5-10 PM! We'll be doing a mini tap takeover with Elevation Beer Company and Wit's End Brewing Company and will also have other Christmas themed and dark & boozy offerings on tap. Elevation will be in house raffling off some swag including brewery branded ugly sweaters!
Local favorites Fred & Tom will be in the house serenading us with Christmas themed music and other fun gems.
**DRAUGHT LIST COMING SOON**
Live Music at The Jailhouse
We could not be more excited to have The Hydes as our first ever live music performance at The Jailhouse! Joanna (fiddle, vocals) and Iain (guitar, mandolin, vocals) are a brother-sister duo hailing from Denver, CO, melding bluegrass with Celtic inspired folk music.
A bit more about The Hydes:
"From gigs in Nashville to Ireland, sold-out shows at home in Colorado and the Western USA, and most recently performances throughout Iceland, The Hydes continue to expand their collective, exploratory musical scope. Joanna (fiddle, vocals) and Iain (guitar, mandolin, vocals) grew up in a musical family, traveling the USA to share their music at festivals, house concerts, workshops, and various concert venues from their primary school days onward. Brimming with curiosity and a sense of adventure for an array of styles, The Hydes have forged a path of musical experience that includes classical, Irish, Cape Breton, Texas swing, bluegrass, swing, blues, and classic American folk idioms."
Website: http://www.hydesmusic.com/
Music: http://www.hydesmusic.com/green-blue/
On Saturday, October 22nd we're bringing a taste of the Great American Beer Festival to Buena Vista! When we open at Noon, all 10 taps will be filled with special beers from out-of-state breweries plus some medal winning CO beers too. You don't want to miss this, trust us. Beer list below:
DRAUGHT
Beachwood BBQ and Brewing, Amalgamator IPA
Bell's Brewery, Uberon - Imperial Oberon aged in Bourbon Barrels
Lawson's Finest Liquids, Sip of Sunshine IPA
Melvin Brewing, Asterisk Double IPA
Scratch Brewing Company, Gooseberry Saison
Societe Brewing Company, The Apprentice Saison
4 Noses Brewing Company, Pump Action Imperial Pumpkin Ale (2016 GABF Gold & 2016 World Beer Cup Gold)
Cannonball Creek Brewing Company, Solid Gold Belgian Style Golden Ale (2016 GABF Gold)
Cerebral Brewing, Chardonnay Barrel Aged Dreamy Thing (Non barrel aged Dreamy Thing won 2016 GABF Silver)
Telluride Brewing Co. Face Down Brown (2016 GABF Bronze)
BOTTLE POURS
Baere Brewing Company, Brett Saison (Saison won 2016 GABF Bronze)
Blackberry Farm Brewery, Saison (Brett Saison won 2016 GABF Silver)
Cerebral Brewing, Monochrome Grisette (the brewery's first ever bottle release)
