The Odell patio. An IPA in hand.
That’s all it took for Jared Lydon to realize he’d found his calling after moving to Fort Collins from Massachusetts in 2007. He didn’t know then that the city would shape his future in beer — or that it would eventually lead him to become CooperSmith’s Pub & Brewing’s new head brewer on Oct. 20.
“In that moment I realized beer could be a career,” Lydon said. “From there, I fell in love with homebrewing.”…