# Dry Dock Brewing Company — Aurora, Colorado

> Dry Dock Brewing Company in Aurora, Colorado, United States scores 3.79 out of 5 — Fine, #181 in Colorado. 121 beers tracked, mostly Pale Ale.

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Dry Dock Brewing Company is a brewery in Aurora, Colorado, United States. We grade it Fine, with a score of 3.79 out of 5 on the beer it brews — #181 in Colorado. Of the 121 beers we track, 32% are Pale Ale and 16% Stout / Porter.

## Rating

- Score: 3.79 out of 5
- Grade: Fine 🙂 — Make genuinely good beer, if not the pint you will still be talking about next year.
- Ranked: #181 in Colorado · #4,626 in United States · #6,557 worldwide
- Popularity: Widely rated
- Beers tracked: 121

## About

Dry Dock Brewing Company is a speakeasy that hasn’t stopped growing. The brewery was Aurora, Colorado’s first when owners Kevin DeLange and Michelle Reding opened with a 7 BBL brewhouse in a 900-square-foot space next their original business The Brew Hut, a homebrew supply shop, in 2005. They named the brewery as a nod to Kevin’s love of nautical history.

Dry Dock established itself early on by word-of-mouth, and put itself on the map when it won a gold 2006 World Beer Cup (only 6 months after the tiny brewery opened) for its HMS Victory ESB (now Dry Dock’s Amber Ale). Dry Dock has since been the recipient of 20 GABF® medals, the prestigious Brewers Association’s Small Brewery of the Year award, and five World Beer Cup® awards.

Check out the Dry Dock News page to see what the brewery is up to today.

## What they brew

- Pale Ale — 32% of the beers we track
- Stout / Porter — 16% of the beers we track
- IPA — 13% of the beers we track
- Other — 13% of the beers we track
- Amber Ale — 11% of the beers we track
- Sour / Other — 10% of the beers we track
- Strong Ale — 5% of the beers we track

## Find them

- Address: 15120 East Hampden Avenue, Aurora, Colorado, United States
- Coordinates: 39.65272520000001, -104.8119964
- Website: http://www.drydockbrewing.com/

## Same owner

- Part of Indian Peaks Brewing Company

## Breweries nearby

- [ZoiglBräu](https://finding.beer/brewery/zoiglbrau-36664.md) — 3.82, Fine — Aurora, Colorado — 0 mi away
- [Six Capital Brewing](https://finding.beer/brewery/six-capital-brewing-27440.md) — 3.79, Fine — Aurora, Colorado — 1.8 mi away
- [A Bit Twisted Brewpub](https://finding.beer/brewery/a-bit-twisted-brewpub-24988.md) — 3.81, Fine — Aurora, Colorado — 2 mi away
- [Two22 Brew](https://finding.beer/brewery/two22-brew-318.md) — 3.53, Poor — Aurora, Colorado — 3.1 mi away
- [Launch Pad Brewery](https://finding.beer/brewery/launch-pad-brewery-3644.md) — 3.91, Fine — Aurora, Colorado — 3.5 mi away
- [Comrade Brewing Co](https://finding.beer/brewery/comrade-brewing-co-1683.md) — 4.16, Great — Denver, Colorado — 4.9 mi away
- [Resolute Brewing Company](https://finding.beer/brewery/resolute-brewing-company-2355.md) — 3.89, Fine — Centennial, Colorado — 6.1 mi away
- [Bent Barley Brewing](https://finding.beer/brewery/bent-barley-brewing-2079.md) — 3.91, Fine — Aurora, Colorado — 6.5 mi away

## Rankings this brewery appears in

- [Best breweries in Denver, Colorado](https://finding.beer/breweries/united-states/colorado/denver.md)
- [Best breweries in Colorado](https://finding.beer/breweries/united-states/colorado.md)
- [Best breweries in United States](https://finding.beer/breweries/united-states.md)

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