New Year’s Eve Game Night
Join us for a special New Year's Eve game night! Easy-going games are the theme. Relax and ring in the new year with our featured games: Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne. Or bring any game you'd like to play with the group. Arrive at 6pm to get settled. Game play starts at 6:30pm.
We look forward to seeing you there! All are invited. Our game night space welcomes neurodiverse folx and is LGBTQ+ friendly.
Cookie Bake Off
Calling all bakers! If you think you have Star Baker potential and may be worthy of handshake from Megan, we would love for you to compete in our cookie bake-off.
The Unabridged Details:
*Plan to bake enough cookies to share with the public for tasting and judging.
*Show up between 3:00 and 3:30pm with your cookies.
*Each batch of cookies will be numbered by our staff for voting purposes.
*The public will vote for their favorite.
*Our winner will be announced between 5:30 and 6:00pm
Clairvoyant & Past Life Readings w/ Penni Louise
What pairs well with beer? A clairvoyant reading with Penni Louise! Tickets can be purchased in advance via the Eventbrite link in this event. Included in the $30 ticket price is a 20 minute Q&A reading and a beer!
Questions can be on any topic, such as:
*Relationship
*Money
*Past Lives
*Career
*Meeting your Spiritual Guides
*And/ Or energy healing, aura, and chakra clearing!
You can also purchase or extend a reading on-site through Venmo, cash, etc. $25 for 20 minutes.
You may have seen Penni Louise reading clairvoyantly at the Mind, Body, Spirit Celebration Fair Aura Photo Booth since 2017, or at the 2023 Spirits & Spirits Halloween event at 4 Mile Historic Park. She has done local business energy clearings for 10 years, and enjoys healing people’s energy from blocks that prevent them from being their brightest self!
General Trivia
Get ready for a night of laughs, fun facts, and friendly competition!
Our rotating group of trivia hosts craft unique and original general knowledge trivia questions weekly. Round topics change every week with the 1st round being current events and the 3rd round theme being chosen by the previous week's 3rd place winners.
And of course, Jeopardy as the 5th round for those final wagers.
*$30 gift card for 1st and $20 gift card for 2nd place winners
*Limit 6 people per team
*Indoor and patio seating available (patio seating is open air)
*Seating is first come, first served
*All answers will be submitted digitally
Grown Up Book Fair w/ Second Star to the Right
Need some last minute gifts or want a night out with book lovers? Come to the Grown Up Book Fair at Fiction Beer Company! We will have a great selection of books and book-themed gifts and will provide complimentary gift wrapping. Grab a beer and browse some books during this holiday event!
Holiday Maker's Market
We're excited to host our third annual holiday makers market! We've assembled an incredible mini-marketplace with 10 local makers:
*Persephone Candleworks - hand-poured, non-toxic, artisan candles
*Sean & Eric Jacobs - stained glass & woodwork
*Viridian Tea Company - tea blends, books, artwork, & stickers
*Peake Ink - multi-media paintings, prints, keychains, ornaments, etc.
*Louise Book Company -blind date with a book themed boxes
*PAGEFIFTYFIVE - greeting cards, prints & other paper goods
*A Fucking Candle CO -explicitly good smells – hand-poured wood-wick candles
*P.L. McMillan - local author + artist
*Western Twist Ceramics - ceramics
*Rebecca Lopez - nail technician
Shop items are not necessarily holiday themed, more-so items that make great gifts to get or give. Each maker will have their own shop space within the taproom. All purchase transactions will be done with individual vendors.
Music Video Bingo
Join us in our Denver taproom on Friday, December 20th from 7-10pm for music video bingo hosted by our friends at Brain Reaction Trivia! The themed rounds for December are: 80s, 90's pop, 2000s, and modern holiday.
How it works:
*Sir Lanka plays videos, you mark them off, whoever gets bingo wins a prize!
*We will provide the materials needed to play, and there will be prizes for winners of each round
The Pie Queen: Holiday Sing-Along + Pop-Up Pie Shop
The Pie Queen and special guest Lavinia Draper return to our taproom for a holiday sing-a-long and pop-up pie shop. We are also your spot to pickup yule log pre-orders.
Pie Queen pies will be available for purchase in the taproom directly from Chocolatina Q Dessert (VENMO or cash only).
Pastry has been a lifelong passion for Martin Howard (or Chocolatina Q Dessert, depending on when and how you meet). An award-winning pastry chef by day and singing drag queen by night, Martin saw an opportunity to combine these two passions. And so, during a time when people needed food and laughter the most, The Pie Queen was born.
ACOTAR Themed Trivia
Join us for a night of trivia dedicated to the phenomenon that is the A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas. Trivia will focus on material from all five books in the series with four themed rounds (coming soon!) + our Jeopardy round.
The Unabridged Event Details:
• Bar tabs awarded for 1st and 2nd place + themed prizes
• Limit of 6 players per team
• Seating is first come, first served in the taproom—no reservations accepted
• We recommend getting here early to snag a table and registering your team with our hosts
Game Night
Easy-going is the theme for our games for December. Relax and take some stress out of the holiday season with our featured games: So Clover, Carcassonne, Flip7, and Ganz Schon Clever. Or bring any game you'd like to play with the group. Game night meets on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of December at 6pm with game play starting at 6:30pm.
As always, no experience necessary and feel free to bring the games that offer you escapism. New members are always welcome. Open game nights will offer easy, moderate, and higher level access points for all interests and capacities (because we know, we all sometimes just want to learn something fun & easy to relax after a long week!). You can jump in on a game that seems interesting to you or come prepared with a game you want to teach & share with others.
Each month will feature a NEW game to the group that you may sign up for in advance once you get connected to the group. Regular game nighters are invited to join a Discord channel to stay connected on events and sign up for games.
We look forward to seeing you there! All are invited. Our game night space welcomes neurodiverse folx and is LGBTQ+ friendly.
Book Club
Our December book club theme was books from the "best of year" lists. "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin was the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards winner for fiction and won our book club poll and is our December selection.
The FBC book club white elephant book exchange is returning for our 4th year! We'll host the book exchange starting @ 7pm with our book club discussion to follow. Bring in a wrapped book (or books)to donate to the book exchange table. We'll draw numbers and go in that order to pick out a book. One final round to steal from your fellow book clubbers and then we unwrap!
The official Fiction Beer CO book club meets monthly on the third Monday of each month. We meet at 7:00 pm in the Denver taproom. What we do: drink beers and talk about the book. Discussion questions help guide and focus the discussion; however, going off topic is encouraged.
We have a great mix of gregarious bookish folks mixed with introverted bookish folks and we happily welcome new people into the fold.
We encourage you to join our official Fiction Beer Company book club Facebook group. The group is the place to vote for our book selections, engage with other members, and get notified of exclusive events.
General Trivia
Get ready for a night of laughs, fun facts, and friendly competition!
Our rotating group of trivia hosts craft unique and original general knowledge trivia questions weekly. Round topics change every week with the 1st round being current events and the 3rd round theme being chosen by the previous week's 3rd place winners.
And of course, Jeopardy as the 5th round for those final wagers.
*$30 gift card for 1st and $20 gift card for 2nd place winners
*Limit 6 people per team
*Indoor and patio seating available (patio seating is open air)
*Seating is first come, first served
*All answers will be submitted digitally
Sip & Craft Holiday Cards
Join us on Monday, December 9th @ 6pm for a holiday card making class hosted by LMK Cards! For $20 you will receive a free beer, three winter-themed holiday card kits, and instructions on how to make them. Each card can be customize to fit your holiday (Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule and more). Hope you can join us in making some joy and cheer! You can buy online via the Eventbrite ticket link in this event or in-person with cash.
Drunk Christmas
All we want for Christmas is YOU because everyone deserves a good BAH HUMBUG during the holidays!!!
Join the festivities with this immersive, trunk-show adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Winner of “Best Holiday Show” in Westword’s 2024 Best of Denver awards, enjoy the holiday cheer as our actors desperately juggle the balance between getting hilariously drunk and still bringing this magical holiday tale to life. Sample seasonal drinks from our incredible Denver-area brewery partners as we lead you in a cheerfully themed drinking game. Grab interactive bags which transport you further into the show and are the hit of the party year after year!
We honor this is our 8th year bringing hilarity and holiday wit to our Colorado community, so we mixed things up a bit. We have 3 casts of 5 people bringing you 19 characters per show! We’re also adding matinee showings on Sunday afternoons in December, so anyone looking to get into the spirit before dark can join in as well. Drink along or sit back and enjoy the playful raucousness - however you want to celebrate, come do it with us!
Audacious Immersive’s Drunk Christmas runs November 29th-December 22nd. As always, tickets for Drunk Christmas are pay-what-you-can, with the option to reserve seating for an additional fee. For tickets and other information, please visit their website: www.audaciousimmersive.com.
Drunk Christmas
All we want for Christmas is YOU because everyone deserves a good BAH HUMBUG during the holidays!!!
Join the festivities with this immersive, trunk-show adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Winner of “Best Holiday Show” in Westword’s 2024 Best of Denver awards, enjoy the holiday cheer as our actors desperately juggle the balance between getting hilariously drunk and still bringing this magical holiday tale to life. Sample seasonal drinks from our incredible Denver-area brewery partners as we lead you in a cheerfully themed drinking game. Grab interactive bags which transport you further into the show and are the hit of the party year after year!
We honor this is our 8th year bringing hilarity and holiday wit to our Colorado community, so we mixed things up a bit. We have 3 casts of 5 people bringing you 19 characters per show! We’re also adding matinee showings on Sunday afternoons in December, so anyone looking to get into the spirit before dark can join in as well. Drink along or sit back and enjoy the playful raucousness - however you want to celebrate, come do it with us!
Audacious Immersive’s Drunk Christmas runs November 29th-December 22nd. As always, tickets for Drunk Christmas are pay-what-you-can, with the option to reserve seating for an additional fee. For tickets and other information, please visit their website: www.audaciousimmersive.com.
General Trivia
Get ready for a night of laughs, fun facts, and friendly competition!
Our rotating group of trivia hosts craft unique and original general knowledge trivia questions weekly. Round topics change every week with the 1st round being current events and the 3rd round theme being chosen by the previous week's 3rd place winners.
And of course, Jeopardy as the 5th round for those final wagers.
*$30 gift card for 1st and $20 gift card for 2nd place winners
*Limit 6 people per team
*Indoor and patio seating available (patio seating is open air)
*Seating is first come, first served
*All answers will be submitted digitally
Game Night
Easy-going is the theme for our games for December. Relax and take some stress out of the holiday season with our featured games: So Clover, Carcassonne, Flip7, and Ganz Schon Clever. Or bring any game you'd like to play with the group. Game night meets on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of December at 6pm with game play starting at 6:30pm.
As always, no experience necessary and feel free to bring the games that offer you escapism. New members are always welcome. Open game nights will offer easy, moderate, and higher level access points for all interests and capacities (because we know, we all sometimes just want to learn something fun & easy to relax after a long week!). You can jump in on a game that seems interesting to you or come prepared with a game you want to teach & share with others.
Each month will feature a NEW game to the group that you may sign up for in advance once you get connected to the group. Regular game nighters are invited to join a Discord channel to stay connected on events and sign up for games.
We look forward to seeing you there! All are invited. Our game night space welcomes neurodiverse folx and is LGBTQ+ friendly.
F45 Flow Recovery Class + Beer
Join us on Sunday, December 1st @ 11:30am for a 30 minute flow class hosted by F45 Training South Park Hill followed by a $1 off of your first beer for class participants. Stretch, move, flow, recover, and replenish.
Class will be inside of the taproom. Please bring your own mat. All other equipment provided by F45.
Pictures Without Santa: Holiday Photo Session for Grown Ups
Join us for a holiday photo session just for grown-ups with Brandi Vos Photography! Dress in your finest ugly sweaters and bring your own props--anything you'd like to take a holiday photo with--including pets. And we'll provide the holiday backdrop minus the mayhem of our pictures with Santa event.
•The photo session is $15 per individual or group
•Our photographer is Brandi Vos of Brandi Vos Photography
•No reservations accepted--event is first come, first served
•How it works: come to the bar, buy beverages and your ticket. You will receive a session number with your ticket that saves your place in line
•Sit back and wait for your number to be called. Super easy and hassle free!
•After the photo shoot, your digital images will be touched up by the photographer and emailed to you
Pictures with Santa
Santa and Mrs. Claus return to our taproom to cheerily take photos with smiling (and crying) children and adults! Our professional photographer will be capturing these magical moments and memorializing them in digital images for you to share however you wish!
The unabridged event details:
•The photo session with Mr. & Mrs. Clause is $10 / per group
•Children, adults, groups, everyone is welcome
•Our photographer is Brandi Vos of Brandi Vos Photography
•No reservations accepted--event is first come, first served
•How it works: come to the bar, buy beverages and your ticket. You will receive a session number with your ticket that saves your place in line
•Sit back and wait for your number to be called. Super easy and hassle free!
•After the photo shoot, your digital images will be touched up by the photographer and emailed to you
A Series of Fortunate Stouts
A Series of Fortunate Stouts returns on Black Friday at both our Denver and Parker locations! We’ll have 8 stouts on tap: 5 adjunct stout variants, Law's Whiskey Barrel-Aged 10 Imperial Sweet Stout, and Little Dash of Magic Pastry Stout (collaboration with our Parker location and Poulette Bakeshop). That’s a whole lotta Stout in your mouth on Black Friday!
The Adjunct Stout Taplist:
*Caramel pistachio
*German chocolate
*Cinnamon maple
*Coffee
*Honey vanilla
The Stout Taplist:
*Law's Whiskey Barrel-aged 10 Imperial Sweet Stout
*10 Imperial Sweet Stout
*Little Dash of Magic Pastry Stout
Dark Beer Taplist:
*Zembla Baltic Porter
*Alternate Present Schwarzbier (Denver taproom only)
All stouts will be available as flights and full pours. We’ll have 2 light beers on tap for a good palate cleanse. All other beers will be available in can pours if you’re hoping to imbibe on your faves that may be off tap for the day.
P.S.
The adjunct stouts are small batch and super limited creations just for Black Friday. Some variants will likely kick same day. We highly recommend coming in on Black Friday if you want to try them all.
Roleplay Tuesday
Are you interested in trying out a roleplaying game like Dungeons & Dragons? Looking for other players or maybe someone willing to run a game?
Join us at Fiction on 4th Tuesdays to dip your toes into the wide world of tabletop roleplaying games. No experience is necessary and supplies - such as dice and pre-generated characters - can be provided.
Come in for one-evening adventures, learn about RPGs or explore new games beyond the big popular ones.
Family Feud Style Trivia
Woot! “Family Feud” style trivia night returns to kick off an epic holiday season with friends and family!
Main Objective: In teams, guess the most popular survey numbers to common categories and score points. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Family Feud trivia consists of four parts: three Face Off rounds and a bracket style bonus round.
The Unabridged Event Details:
• Bar tabs awarded for 1st and 2nd place
• Limit of 6 players per team
• Seating is first come, first served in the taproom—no reservations accepted
• We recommend getting here early to snag a table and registering your team with our hosts
Game Night
Escapism is the theme for our games this month. Whether you need to go someplace cute and cozy or bold and adventurous, join us on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of November to get away from reality and dive into comfort.
As always, no experience necessary and feel free to bring the games that offer you escapism. New members are always welcome. Open game nights will offer easy, moderate, and higher level access points for all interests and capacities (because we know, we all sometimes just want to learn something fun & easy to relax after a long week!). You can jump in on a game that seems interesting to you or come prepared with a game you want to teach & share with others.
Each month will feature a NEW game to the group that you may sign up for in advance once you get connected to the group. Regular game nighters are invited to join a Discord channel to stay connected on events and sign up for games.
We look forward to seeing you there! All are invited. Our game night space welcomes neurodiverse folx and is LGBTQ+ friendly.
Book Club
In celebration of our annual FBC book club Friendsgiving potluck, the theme for our November book club selection is books about food or restaurants. "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly" by Anthony Bourdain won the book club poll and is our book for November.
The FBC book club Friendsgiving potluck is returning for our 4th year! Potluck starts @ 6:30pm and book club will follow at 7pm. Bring something tasty to share with the group. Fiction Beer will handle plates, utensils, and the main protein. Facebook event coming soon with the unabridged potluck details!
The official Fiction Beer CO book club meets monthly on the third Monday of each month. We meet at 7:00 pm in the Denver taproom. What we do: drink beers and talk about the book. Discussion questions help guide and focus the discussion; however, going off topic is encouraged.
We have a great mix of gregarious bookish folks mixed with introverted bookish folks and we happily welcome new people into the fold.
We encourage you to join our official Fiction Beer Company book club Facebook group. The group is the place to vote for our book selections, engage with other members, and get notified of exclusive events.
Grown Up Book Fair w/ Second Star to the Right
It's time for a fall grown up book fair at Fiction Beer Company! Join us for a night of good beer and good books! It's a great place to get some early holiday gifts for the adults in your life! And pick one up for yourself while you're at it!
Music Video Bingo
Join us in our Denver taproom on Friday, November 15th from 7-10pm for music video bingo hosted by our friends at Brain Reaction Trivia! The themed rounds for November are: 90's hip hop, pop punk, funk & disco, mashups.
How it works:
*Sir Lanka plays videos, you mark them off, whoever gets bingo wins a prize!
*We will provide the materials needed to play, and there will be prizes for winners of each round
General Trivia
Get ready for a night of laughs, fun facts, and friendly competition!
Our rotating group of trivia hosts craft unique and original general knowledge trivia questions weekly. Round topics change every week with the 1st round being current events and the 3rd round theme being chosen by the previous week's 3rd place winners.
And of course, Jeopardy as the 5th round for those final wagers.
*$30 gift card for 1st and $20 gift card for 2nd place winners
*Limit 6 people per team
*Indoor and patio seating available (patio seating is open air)
*Seating is first come, first served
*All answers will be submitted digitally
Fall Book Buzz w/ Denver Public Library
With over one million books published each year, how do you pick which ones to read? The Denver Public Library can help. During this one hour book buzz, a reader's advisor will present 30 new and forthcoming titles from a variety of genres, offering lots of choices for your "To Be Read" pile! There will also be books for giveaway, and we'll be doing library card sign-ups as well. No registration required.
Playtest Tuesday
This monthly event is for tabletop game designers and game players alike!
• Do you have a game prototype you need tested on the general public?
• Is your game design just a stack of index cards and stolen dice?
• Are you wondering how to start designing a board game?
• Do you love putting other peoples creative ideas through their paces?
No experience is necessary as either a designer or as a player.
All game concepts are welcome. Insight from players with tons of experience are just as valuable as feedback from those brand new to the hobby.