Favorite CO Belgian Brewery

Belgians aren't my favorite, but I'll go for Twelve Degrees.

 

If there was only a recent thread about this....oh wait, here it is: http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/favorite-colorado-belgian-style-beers.407204/

 

Funkwerks is one of my favorite breweries period. I love saisons and I have yet to have a bad one from them.

 

Damn, they won best small brew-pub at the World Beer Cup. (And Gravity got a silver for Coal Kriek.)

 

Avery is my favorite brewery of the ones listed, but their beers are very far from traditional Belgians. I love 'em, just wouldn't really call them a Belgian Brewery.

 

I still think this comes back to very few American breweries excelling at (clean) traditional Belgian beers.
It's probably similar to central-European lagers in that regard. There's nothing inherently zany about anything, but it's tough to nail the intangibles.
If someone could every truly nail a dubbel like Westmalle I'd almost certainly buy it all of the time. The few times anyone does, it always seems like it's a one-off or a seasonal that never sees a 2nd run.

 

I went new Belgium simply for the number of Belgian styles they do well.

 

I was just going to mention that New Belgium makes some pretty solid Belgian style beers that are affordable and easily obtainable. The revamped abbey and trippel are very nice.

 

Just opened that Coal Kreik from Gravity. Oxidized or else out would be great. Bottle was kind of a low fill. Should have known better.

 

This seems like a recurring problem for them from what I've noticed. I really like their beers, but they have issues with consistency and bottling it seems.

 

Yeah. Much better at the taproom which is so close I don't know why I just didn't stop for a pour.