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Leopold Bros.

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Distillery in Denver, Colorado, U.S.

Leopold Bros. is a family-owned and operated distillery located in Denver, Colorado. They are well known as an independent distillery that floor malts, mills, mashes, and ferments all the grains in their spirits, as well as distills, ages, and bottles their entire portfolio at their one and only distillery in northeast Denver. They currently have the largest traditional floor malting room of any distillery in the United States, where they malt Colorado barley onsite.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1999Founded1

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Leopold Bros. is a family-owned and operated distillery located in Denver, Colorado. They are well known as an independent distillery that floor malts, mills, mashes, and ferments all the grains in their spirits, as well as distills, ages, and bottles their entire portfolio at their one and only distillery in northeast Denver. They currently have the largest traditional floor malting room of any distillery in the United States, where they malt Colorado barley onsite.2

How it started

History

Brothers Scott and Todd Leopold, opened a brewpub on South Main Street at the site of a renovated brake factory in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1999. Later, operations expanded to include a micro-distillery. Todd Leopold, brew- and still-master for the brewery, after graduating from the Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago, interned in four German breweries, and went to distilling school in Lexington, Kentucky. Scott Leopold, an environmental engineer, was crucial in the design stages attempting to create as near a zero-pollution factory as possible. The microbrewery operated as an "eco-brewery" using organic hops and barley, and used equipment and procedures designed to reduce wastewater and other waste by-products in the beer-making process.

Leopold Bros. closed its Ann Arbor location in the Spring of 2008 and relocated to Denver. After relocating, the distillery discontinued brewing and began operating solely as a micro-distillery. To keep up with exploding demand, Leopold Bros. opened a new facility with triple the production capacity of their previous facility, which also includes one of only a few malting floors at a distillery outside of Scotland. Many have won awards in international competitions They received Distillery of the Year award from the American Distilling Institute in 2015.

Aperitivo

Absinthe Verte: Silver Medal, 2008 London International Wine and Spirits Competition; Bronze Medal, 2009 San Francisco World Spirits Competition

Fernet Leopold - Highland Amaro: Gold Medal, San Francisco World Spirits Competition

From Wikipedia’s article on Leopold Bros., shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Products and brands

  • gin

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Timeline

  1. 1999Founded Founded in Ann Arbor1

Sources

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