Face Down Brown is our flagship, biggest award winner, and most widely recognized beer. It’s a hybrid of an American and English-style brown ale and stands apart from most other browns with its distinct hop bitterness that balances out the sweetness inherent in malty ales. After we opened in October 2011, Face Down won the Gold Award at World Beer Cup in spring 2012 and the Gold Medal at Great American Beer Fest in the fall of 2012, helping launching our tiny brewery from a tiny ski town to recognition throughout Colorado. Face Down Brown continues to win awards with another Gold at GABF in 2014 and a Bronze in 2016.