Floodstage Ale Works

Always good beer on tap. Great, laid back vibes. Friendly staff and we love their food! It’s our favorite place in Brighton!

Laid back atmosphere with a great beer selection. Limited food menu; burgers sandwiches, and brats are on the menu. Off the menu they were serving jalapeño cheese stuffed pretzels and 12″ pizzas. The pretzel was great. It was soft with the right amount of salt and spicy.
The chicken sandwich with cheese, bacon, jalapeños was great. The jalapeños were fresh and way hotter than expected. If you like heat, add jalapeños.
Only four stars because they served craft beer in a bottle; not with a glass. Yep I’m a beer snob.

Having never been here before it was an enjoyable experience over all good burger cooked outside on the grill. No fluff on the food they only have chips (they were a bit stale, just not my lucky day I guess) to go with the burgers. So if you are looking for a good dining experience then this may not be the place, if you want a quick burger and a beer and the sun is out so you can sit on the awesome patio then this is the place. Great beer selection I might add and knowing I am a beer snob, those comments don’t come easy from me.
There is good bike parking in the lot in front of the patio so that is great too. If they had an expanded menu I would be a frequent flyer there.

I would call this more of a tap house. I love this place it’s so convenient to have. I don’t have to drive miles out of brighton to grab a beer. Sports are always on the tv. Beers pour good and come out cold. Happy hour is the best 24 Oz for 3 bucks. The only thing is the menu is lacking, so I don’t order from there and i eat before I head over there. The bar service has been great each and every time I go. The other thing is they serve coors and bud light and people drink it. when they have such a better beer selection. Those are things that I just don’t understand. I haven’t tried their house brew seems like the boiler is always broken, I’m beginning to think that they just don’t know how to brew beer.

Good beer selection for small local joint, mixed drinks are so-​so but reasonable, the grilled burgers are super great pub fare. Locals are friendly, as is the staff. Good place to get a pint and a burger.

I like this place because of the burgers. Outside on the bbq grill. Smells great, tastes great. They brew their own beer and have a very good selection of micros on tap and in botrles/​cans. They care. About feeding me a great burger, and serving me a great beer!

I feel bad for giving them 1 star. Props to Floodstage for trying to be a great beer destination in Brighton. They have great beers on tap & they have great beers in bottles. What kills them is the clientele. They just don’t appreciate good beer culture. Besides us, everyone was drinking Coors or a Bud. Despite having Ska, New Belgium, & other good brewers on tap, everyone in the bar was drinking piss. The old lady next to us was trashed and wouldn’t stop bugging us. Their house brewed beers tasted like plastic. If you’re going to open a microbrewery, don’t do it in Brighton. Just serve Coors, & you’ll be good.

Three stars is my overall rating for Floodstage but there are other ratings that I think I should break down first because I don’t feel like it does the place justice to just sum it up with three stars with little to no explanation about it.
In regards to atmosphere I have to give Floodstage four stars. While the place is not huge it is a good size to bring friends and family. There is a cute little patio outside that you can go chill out and visit… or zone out by yourself.
In regards to the food and service I would also give four stars. The bartender and waitress were very attentive and friendly and eager to please. We ordered a cheeseburger and a bratwurst which tasted great! They grilled them out on a grill outside and the taste reflected that. Yummy!
When it came to the beer though, two stars. Don’t get me wrong. The beer that I had here was good but I first heard about Floodstage off of a brewery map covering most of the breweries that are open in Colorado. Floodstage is therefore marked as a brewery which brews its own beer. I asked the waitress if they had any of their own beer on tap that they brew there and none was available. The beer that they did have on tap was from other local breweries. Being a brewery one would think that they would have at least one of their own signature beers on tap at all times. This was not the case and in that aspect, it was a disappointment.
To sum it all up I admit I don’t know Brighton very well because I don’t have friends or family there that I see often. If the rare occasion ever arises where I am in town this place would be a good stop to make for lunch since the burgers and brats are awesome. In just such an occasion I hope they have their own beer on tap to sample too.

I have to say up front I really want to like this bar. It has some really nice features for a small Brighton bar but falls short in many ways.
I ride from Thornton to Brighton and the surroundings area looking to find that unique hide away type bars that has both a comfortable friendly feel, cold beer a maybe even something to eat at times.
I have been dropping into the Flood Stage for the last two years, probably a total of 15 times. On the upside the bar has a good small bar feel a nice but small patio. I was impresses once when someone ordered a hamburger off the menu and they rolled out a gas grill on the drinking patio and fired it up to cook the hamburger. guess they don’t have a kitchen. Does not really matter but does limit there food offerings.
My issue with this bar is over the several years I have never really had a friendly waitress. Every time I have been there including tonight the staff seams preoccupied and and at time put out to get you a beer. I thought it was a fluke but seams to be the norm each time I go there.
Several times I have been there when they had a DJ or live music. The place seams to small for that. Kind of really load for the size and no dance floor room. The music mix seamed kind of odd for the crowd when I was there but that might just be me.
Recap: There are friendlier bars in the Brighton area. This is a small unique bar with good beer and worth a try. Hope the service improves.

Nice. I’ve now been here twice and this place is great. Twenty-​odd Colorado brews on tap. About a hundred more in the bottle. I am still stuck on the rotating selection of in-​house brews that they sell for two bucks a pint. They are running a porter and a red right now and they are both really good. The brewer obviously knows his shit. The red is creamy, exactly to my taste and the porter is great. Very complex. Somehow hoppy and creamy at the same time with a pronounced but not overpowering smokiness to it. Both go down a little too smooth but that’s no complaint. Did I mention they have a premium well too? I’m sold. Great atmosphere and friendly folks all around. Not very big but clean and comfortable with a nice patio too. Limited food service (no actual kitchen) but they bust out the grill and cook up some tasty burgers backyard BBQ style (even veggie burgers!). No pretentious bullshit just an attitude of «Dude I’m wasted… Let’s fire up the grill and scarf some burgers.» I’m from Phoenix so maybe places like this are a dime a dozen here in colorado, but i would rather booze here than most of my local watering holes because of the beer selection alone. I heard that they occasionally have live music too. I’m moving to Brighton next month and maybe I’m overexcited to find a sweet spot like this in what I heard is a boring town. I haven’t explored too much (drove all around and it seems that I won’t be missing Mexican food) but this has got to be the hippest spot in Brighton (not that that is saying much of course… kinda like a cow with a mohawk)… But if I owned a bar it would be exactly like this.

Small little brewpub with local flavor. They brew up some delicious beers, especially the porter, and have an enormous selection of other beers on tap and in cans and bottles. Floodstage has one of the best selections of beers in the Denver area, and at the best prices I’ve seen too.
It’s VERY rare that one of the beers isn’t pouring properly. I’ve seen it happen with their own brew, but this certainly isn’t typical.
The live bands they have on weekends are usually good, and yes sometimes loud. It’s a small place to host live music. They do have a patio (covered and heated in the winter) that you can escape to when the music is too loud. I’ve never known just the jukebox to be too loud. I’m sure you could always just ask someone to turn that down. It’s the kind of place where they’ll put whatever you want on the t.v.
The food is done on a grill, so burgers and brats. They do get some delicious burgers, but there isn’t much selection. It’s great when they have bbq going outside. If Floodstage could somehow share the kitchen with Copper Rail nextdoor, this would be not just the best place in Brighton, but one of the best in all of the Denver area to get your beer on.

Floodstage has a great selection of beer pouring from over 20 taps. They have a great modern bar and an upbeat environment. The downside is that the music is way too loud (or maybe I’m just getting old) and none of the beers pour properly. The bartender typically has to pour your beer into a pitcher, let it sit for 5 mins then pour it into a pint glass. They offer dogs and brats and catered BBQ from time to time.
It’s one of Brighton’s best but I wish they would solve some of the glaring problems they have.

I used to live in Brighton, and I must tell you entertainment was limited. Upon my last visit, I stumbled across a new brewery– Floodstage. Quite impressive as they showcase over 42 microbrews. Fantastic! If you decide to do happy hour here it is only $ 2 a pint or $ 3 for their collosal (24 ounces?) Their menu was quite limited, but I guarantee this is the best beer you will find in Brighton.
I also like the fact this small gem also has that small-​town feel. People are open and actually want to talk. No snooty-​factor here.