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Ska Brewing Company is a
brewery A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of b ...
founded in 1995 by Bill Graham and Dave Thibodeau in
Durango, Colorado Durango is the home rule city that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 19,071 at the 2020 United States census. Durango is the home of Fort Lewis College ...
, United States. Since 2008, the brewery has been located in its current Bodo Industrial Park location. Its beer names and branding revolve around
ska Ska (; , ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a w ...
and
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culture. In March 2020, after half a decade of planning, Ska Street Brewstillery opened in
Boulder In geology, a boulder (or rarely bowlder) is a rock fragment with size greater than in diameter. Smaller pieces are called cobbles and pebbles. While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive. In ...
, Colorado. That same afternoon it and other restaurants in the state closed due to the coronavirus.


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References


Further reading


Beer in Review: Dave Thibodeau of Ska Brewing
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Ska Brewing - First Drafts
''The Denver Post''.


External links


Official website
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