On the heels of the loss of Call to Arms and Dry Dock’s original Aurora location, another local brewery is shutting down on Sunday, February 1.
Kelissa Hieber, who took over Goldspot Brewing Company as owner in 2021, found out a week before Christmas that the building her business is in was being sold, and that she’d have to move out. “You can’t really get a hold of people at that time,” Hieber recalls. “I was like, what do I do?”
Goldspot, the neighborhood bar that’s been open since 2015 at 4970 Lowell Boulevard, will be sorely missed. It’s a place where you’re just as likely to see a group of LARPers hanging out post-game as you are to see a drag comedy show. It’s a place where folks can cozy up in an intimate seat in the corner, or come with a large group and sit at the long communal table. It’s a place where you’d find customers reading books alone at the bar, as well as industry folks meeting for after-work beers…