SKA BREWING - Durango, Colorado
SKA BREWING
545 Turner Drive
Durango, Colorado
970-247-5792
Email:
home@skabrewing.com

NEW From SKA!

Microbrewers for the Evironment!
Find us at the Boulder Theater on April 15--15 breweries and live music with Runaway Truck Ramp and the Yonder Mountain String Band!

It Takes Characters to Brew Beer with Character!
Dave
"I like the Ska."
Bill
"I like the goods."
Matt
"I like the links."
We all like the Brews!


the Ska Beers
Special beers we're currently brewing.
Where there's music...you'll find Ska Brewing!

Ska merchandise like shirts, labels, stickers, patches, and posters. Check out the deals.

Links to supporters and sites related to brewing and Ska music.

Check back often for upcoming changes to our web site!

Bill workin' the beer products...Ska Brewing took shape in 1995 out of a love of brewing and drinking finely crafted beers . and listening and dancing to ska music. Beyond that, the correlation between ska and beer isn't exactly cut and dry--besides the fact that it's difficult to get through many a ska CD without catching a few references to beer. And, of course, whenever we listen to ska, we're drinking beer. And then I guess there's those scooter rally pub tours, but we're not huge advocates of drunken scootering. Nonetheless, each has a fascinating history.

Matt is tending the kettleAlthough there is evidence dating beer back to the Sumerians nearly 5000 years ago, ska can only be traced to Jamaica in the late 1950's. The three of us, however, have a different theory: Traces of beer residue have been found in clay pots dating back almost 4000 years on the western Skattish island of Rhum. Coincidentally, Bill Graham's roots trace back to Rhum--2000 B.C.--stone etchings of some sort of neanderthal with a bagpipe device, drinking pot, and checkered socks. It is here, within the lifetime of Bill Graham's great, to the fifth power, grandfather, that we believe the true roots of beer and ska lie. In 200 years, when people are skanking on the moon in their gravity bubbles tipping back the Ten Pin Porter, it'll all make sense.


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Durango, CO

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