Mythology distillery moving production to Steamboat Springs next year

Mythology Distillery begins a new chapter in Steamboat Springs.

Come 2023, whiskey and gin distillery LoHi plans to move its operations from Denver to Butcherknife Brewing Co., Ltd. The former is at 2875 Elk River Street near Steamboat Airport.

“We needed to combine everything into one process,” founder Scott Yates said. “We’ve been looking all over Colorado, pretty much from Longmont to Arvada and even the mountains. My partner and I live in Steamboat, so this was a natural fit, but we didn’t think we’d find a location here.”

Mythology opened a distillery and tasting room at 3622 Tejon Street in LoHi in 2018. It also rents a 5,000-square-foot production facility near 56th Street and I-25.

In November, Yates and partners Scott Borg and Mike Zakhem bought the former 5,000-square-foot brewery in Steamboat for $2.5 million, Yates said. Butcherknife Brewing has been there since 2013 and closed in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.

Mythology plans to use the existing building for the distillery and build another 4,000-square-foot rack for barrel aging and packaging—as well as a large outdoor whiskey garden for live music and games—on the property’s 1.5 acres.

They have appointed Eric Smith Associates to design the new facility, which they plan to open in January 2023, and the Flow Design Collaborative to design the whiskey garden, which they plan to open in the spring of next year.

“We have great support in Denver from the entire Front Range community, and we hope to continue that. But in a city like Steamboat, you’re going to have 20,000 to 50,000 tourists every weekend,” Yates said. “We are going to be a very big destination for people to come and tour the distillery. So, it was an opportunity we couldn’t miss.”