When Danielle and Noah Brooks, co-founders of American Cultures, first started peddling kombucha around Denver, they did it from the back of a 1948 International Harvester truck. Now, they have a proper brick-and-mortar shop in Lower Highlands. It’s a gleaming white herringbone-tiled beauty with pretty sea foam green accents and great natural light. The taproom supports a robust guest brewer program, featuring Colorado-made kombuchas and kefirs from Elevated Elixirs, Cliffhouse, Five Points Fermentation, Rowdy Mermaid, InJoy CHA, and others.
The flavors get all kinds of creative, too: beet ginger mint, green tea with mint and turmeric, prickly pear lime ginger nettle. Sample them by the glass ($6) or in a flight (four pours for $7). Thirty-two and 64-ounce reusable growlers are also available. The pretty-in-pink drink pictured below is a float made with hibiscus-lime kombucha from Happy Leaf and raspberry kombucha sorbet. (Alternatively, request vanilla ice cream from Scrumptious or a vegan variation from Sweet Action.) If fizz and tang ain’t yo thang, there’s also cold brew from Method Roasters and, to eat, pumpkin, banana-coconut, or pear-fig oatmeals from Rebel Oats and breakfast burritos and tamales from Tlaquesalsa. Denver, do you know how lucky you are?
3233 Tejon St., #107, Denver, CO; 720-402-8394.


Additional photos courtesy of American Cultures



