August 16, 2024 • 7 mins
WE SEEM TO HAVE HIT PEAK BREWERY And local breweries are struggling compared to the Glory Years a short time ago. One local brewery is doing something COMPLETELY different in an effort to keep chugging along (see what I did there?) and I'm talking to FlyteCo Brewing's new venture as FlyteCoworking Monday through Friday to create a work space in North Denver. Rarely does a co-working space have ample free nearby parking, an expansive outdoor patio and take place in an aviation-themed brewery space right off Tennyson. (Photos here.) The private co-working space will be open Monday-Friday. The space will transition to the normal FlyteCo open-to-the-public brewery starting at 2 p.m. Monday-Thursday and at 11 a.m. on Friday. Membership will be quite limited to ensure members will always have space for themselves and their guests. Of course, the space will have WiFi, on-site beverages, and affordable pricing. Find their location here. Owner Jason Slingsby joins me at 1 to discuss.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason Slingsby is joining me from the brewery. It's a
very impressive zoom background, Jason, with your big tanks behind you,
it really looks like you know what you're doing there
at the flight Co Brewing.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh oh yeah, I'm sitting here in the brew house
right now.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
So you how long.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Has flight Co Brewing been open? And we're talking about
the original flight Co Brewing, not the one that is
at the I always call it Stapleton. I don't know
what it's called now, but the old flight Tower, that's
Flight Tower. That's different.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, that one's newer.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So the original brewery, we've been here on Tennyson Street,
kind of that Berkeley Highlands neighborhood for the last five years.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And that's your little neighborhood brewery.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And then we did we opened the flight Coot Tower
across town in the Central Park neighborhood and that is
in the old Stapleton Airport.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And that's a full bar, restaurant and events center.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, and you've got a lot of stuff going on there.
But we're talking about the original location. I asked you
off this air off the air, and I'll ask you
a little bit on the air. Have we hit peak
craft beer in the Denver metro because for years there
it felt like every five minutes somebody was open a brewery. Right,
it was like, Yo, look a brewery. Y'll look a brewery.
(01:13):
And now we seem to have hit the point where
we're now seeing closures kind of. I've seen several closures
as of late, and not just if your smaller brewery,
some pretty well known breweries have decided to call it
a day. So what's going on in the industry.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, we've we've definitely seen a change, especially even in
the last five years since since we opened. But you're right,
there were multiple breweries opening year after year, and it's
kind of hitting a little bit of a saturation point.
You're starting to see more neutral numbers between openings and closing,
maybe even leaning towards more closures, and it's changing. And yeah,
(01:51):
as we were talking about earlier, the the younger demographics
not coming out for the craft beater seeing quite as
hard and it's causing a lot of pivots. You know,
a lot of our changes over at the flight Hoteler
location is that all ages, family friendly, full bar, full
restaurant kind of pivoting towards the market it needs.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well in that neighborhood. That's a perfect thing for that
neighborhood too, because you've got a lot of families there
in Central Park. But you could either adapt or you
can die.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's true of any business, and if you're facing some headwinds,
you got to come up with something else. See I
used headwinds because you're Flight Co Brewing and you guys
are doing something that I think is actually really cool.
Tell me about flight Co working.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, so we're pivoting our morning business model here at
our Tennyson Street location. So we wear a coffee shop
and dagel shop for a little while, and that was
a pivot after COVID to kind of the neighborhood and
the market needs.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And we're making the switch again.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We noticed most of our regular customers were coming here
to work, so they were posting up for a few
hours in their coffee and they were on zoom calls.
They were you know, working on the computers, taking meetings,
and so yeah, we're pivoting again and we're going to
reopen the morning starting Monday, August nineteenth, and it'll be
(03:13):
a membership based co working space, but it'll have that
that very coffee shop vibe to it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What's interesting about this is that before COVID, co working
spaces were very ascendant, right, they were like on the uptick,
and then COVID just smashed them all back to earth
because obviously people were working from home and that hasn't
changed all that much. But that seems like an untapped
market to me. Like, if you were working a remote job,
working in your apartment for the last three or five years,
(03:43):
getting out and going somewhere probably would be enjoyable, especially
a space that's kind of cool too. Now, are people
going to have privacy? How's that going to work in
the in the space?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, it's uh, we're working through all the details. We're
you're talking with having a private room as well, but
it will be a more open field and it's you know,
not going to have that office vibe. It's it's going
to feel like you went into kind of your own
your own coffee shop, your.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Own little brewery.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And part of it is, you know, we want you
to be productive. We also want to focus on some
of the parts of the social aspects. So as the
membership time period ends for the day, it leads right
into a very natural meeting place and happy hour and
continue from there.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So what times are you guys going to be doing
the co working, Like what times of day?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, it'll be from seven thirty in the morning every
day Monday through Friday until two pm, except Fridays. We
will open to the public at eleven am. But you
know it's we're not kicking anyone out from this membership group,
but it will start opening to the public, so you'll
start to have that transition of everyone else coming in
and perfect time again like your coworkers pig meetings and
(05:00):
and share the space after that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So how much is a membership and how do people
sign up?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, so sign up, reach out to our email so
it'll be info at flight co dot beer, f l
y t Eco dot beer, and or jump on our
website and shoot an email through there. But yeah, we're
looking at membership prices, you know, be cheaper than a
couple of coffee each day.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
We're starting around one hundred and ninety nine dollars and.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It gets you access to the space, and then it
gets you member discounts for all of our beer list.
And we got a couple of coffee options and those
are good seven days a week, so if you come
in on the weekend with your friends, you're getting those
member discounts.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
That's very cool. I've put a link to the website
flightcobeer dot com and you can just go to the
I want to say you have like a welcome button
that's got your contact information at the bottom and you
could email and find out more about this. I hope
you are very successful with this because I like people
who see a problem and look for a creative solution,
and that's what this is. Because after the ascendency of
(06:06):
co working spaces that all got crushed during COVID, now
this it's a great opportunity to have a cool place
to work because I'm going to tell you a little secret.
The one time in the last three months that I've
tried to work, like you know, on my laptop away
from my home or my office, I had to go
to three different places to find space to sit down
(06:27):
with my computer because everyone is doing it. So this
is a great idea and I hope it works for you.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, we're excited, and you know, it gets you out
of your house.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You can be productive, you're around some other people, but
it's it's going to be a limited membership. We're going
to we're going to cap it so it's not too crazy.
And then and it keeps you in your neighborhood right,
so you're not We're especially targeting the people around here
who have been coming in and want to continue coming
using our space.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Excellent Jason Slingsby, the owner of Like Co Brewing. You
can check it all out on a blog today. Thank
you so much for making time for me today.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Jason, Oh, thank you appreciate being on all right.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I have a good one. That's a great idea.
Jason Slingsby is joining me from the brewery. It's a
very impressive zoom background, Jason, with your big tanks behind you,
it really looks like you know what you're doing there
at the flight Co Brewing.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh oh yeah, I'm sitting here in the brew house
right now.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
So you how long.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Has flight Co Brewing been open? And we're talking about
the original flight Co Brewing, not the one that is
at the I always call it Stapleton. I don't know
what it's called now, but the old flight Tower, that's
Flight Tower. That's different.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, that one's newer.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So the original brewery, we've been here on Tennyson Street,
kind of that Berkeley Highlands neighborhood for the last five years.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And that's your little neighborhood brewery.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And then we did we opened the flight Coot Tower
across town in the Central Park neighborhood and that is
in the old Stapleton Airport.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And that's a full bar, restaurant and events center.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, and you've got a lot of stuff going on there.
But we're talking about the original location. I asked you
off this air off the air, and I'll ask you
a little bit on the air. Have we hit peak
craft beer in the Denver metro because for years there
it felt like every five minutes somebody was open a brewery. Right,
it was like, Yo, look a brewery. Y'll look a brewery.
(01:13):
And now we seem to have hit the point where
we're now seeing closures kind of. I've seen several closures
as of late, and not just if your smaller brewery,
some pretty well known breweries have decided to call it
a day. So what's going on in the industry.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, we've we've definitely seen a change, especially even in
the last five years since since we opened. But you're right,
there were multiple breweries opening year after year, and it's
kind of hitting a little bit of a saturation point.
You're starting to see more neutral numbers between openings and closing,
maybe even leaning towards more closures, and it's changing. And yeah,
(01:51):
as we were talking about earlier, the the younger demographics
not coming out for the craft beater seeing quite as
hard and it's causing a lot of pivots. You know,
a lot of our changes over at the flight Hoteler
location is that all ages, family friendly, full bar, full
restaurant kind of pivoting towards the market it needs.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well in that neighborhood. That's a perfect thing for that
neighborhood too, because you've got a lot of families there
in Central Park. But you could either adapt or you
can die.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's true of any business, and if you're facing some headwinds,
you got to come up with something else. See I
used headwinds because you're Flight Co Brewing and you guys
are doing something that I think is actually really cool.
Tell me about flight Co working.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, so we're pivoting our morning business model here at
our Tennyson Street location. So we wear a coffee shop
and dagel shop for a little while, and that was
a pivot after COVID to kind of the neighborhood and
the market needs.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And we're making the switch again.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We noticed most of our regular customers were coming here
to work, so they were posting up for a few
hours in their coffee and they were on zoom calls.
They were you know, working on the computers, taking meetings,
and so yeah, we're pivoting again and we're going to
reopen the morning starting Monday, August nineteenth, and it'll be
(03:13):
a membership based co working space, but it'll have that
that very coffee shop vibe to it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What's interesting about this is that before COVID, co working
spaces were very ascendant, right, they were like on the uptick,
and then COVID just smashed them all back to earth
because obviously people were working from home and that hasn't
changed all that much. But that seems like an untapped
market to me. Like, if you were working a remote job,
working in your apartment for the last three or five years,
(03:43):
getting out and going somewhere probably would be enjoyable, especially
a space that's kind of cool too. Now, are people
going to have privacy? How's that going to work in
the in the space?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, it's uh, we're working through all the details. We're
you're talking with having a private room as well, but
it will be a more open field and it's you know,
not going to have that office vibe. It's it's going
to feel like you went into kind of your own
your own coffee shop, your.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Own little brewery.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And part of it is, you know, we want you
to be productive. We also want to focus on some
of the parts of the social aspects. So as the
membership time period ends for the day, it leads right
into a very natural meeting place and happy hour and
continue from there.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So what times are you guys going to be doing
the co working, Like what times of day?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, it'll be from seven thirty in the morning every
day Monday through Friday until two pm, except Fridays. We
will open to the public at eleven am. But you
know it's we're not kicking anyone out from this membership group,
but it will start opening to the public, so you'll
start to have that transition of everyone else coming in
and perfect time again like your coworkers pig meetings and
(05:00):
and share the space after that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So how much is a membership and how do people
sign up?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, so sign up, reach out to our email so
it'll be info at flight co dot beer, f l
y t Eco dot beer, and or jump on our
website and shoot an email through there. But yeah, we're
looking at membership prices, you know, be cheaper than a
couple of coffee each day.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
We're starting around one hundred and ninety nine dollars and.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It gets you access to the space, and then it
gets you member discounts for all of our beer list.
And we got a couple of coffee options and those
are good seven days a week, so if you come
in on the weekend with your friends, you're getting those
member discounts.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
That's very cool. I've put a link to the website
flightcobeer dot com and you can just go to the
I want to say you have like a welcome button
that's got your contact information at the bottom and you
could email and find out more about this. I hope
you are very successful with this because I like people
who see a problem and look for a creative solution,
and that's what this is. Because after the ascendency of
(06:06):
co working spaces that all got crushed during COVID, now
this it's a great opportunity to have a cool place
to work because I'm going to tell you a little secret.
The one time in the last three months that I've
tried to work, like you know, on my laptop away
from my home or my office, I had to go
to three different places to find space to sit down
(06:27):
with my computer because everyone is doing it. So this
is a great idea and I hope it works for you.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, we're excited, and you know, it gets you out
of your house.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You can be productive, you're around some other people, but
it's it's going to be a limited membership. We're going
to we're going to cap it so it's not too crazy.
And then and it keeps you in your neighborhood right,
so you're not We're especially targeting the people around here
who have been coming in and want to continue coming
using our space.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Excellent Jason Slingsby, the owner of Like Co Brewing. You
can check it all out on a blog today. Thank
you so much for making time for me today.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Jason, Oh, thank you appreciate being on all right.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I have a good one. That's a great idea.
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