Inside the brewery half of 4138 Main Street, the walls are still the old grain bins. The 2012 fire missed that side of the building, so the beer is poured in the original structure of a grain elevator that went on Larimer County's books around 1919 and 1920. Back then it handled sugar beets and onions for farmers between Greeley and Fort Collins who couldn't get to either town. The railroad beside it is still active, and it still delivers wood to Sears Trostel in Fort Collins.
Since the Fort Collins taproom's last service on November 1, that building is the only place Timnath Beerwerks pours. The Coloradoan reported that the brewery's taproom at 225 N. Lemay Ave. in Fort Collins would serve its last customers that day, "after two years of pouring pints and hosting community events in Fort Collins," and that operations would then move entirely to Timnath. The timing matters because Timnath's outdoor season wrapped up in the same two weeks. From now until spring, most of the town's dated, out-of-the-house plans happen under one old roof on Main Street.
A Building That Was Already a Crossroads
The Colorado Feed & Grain building has had several lives. It started as the Moody-Warren Grain Elevator and ran as one into the 1960s. After that it was a family-owned flooring store, and the family lived and worked there into the 1980s. Then it became the Colorado Feed & Grain Roadhouse, which ran until about 2005 and gave the building the name it still carries. After that it sat empty for a while.
The current setup began in 2018. CF&G Public Market Collaborative opened May 1 of that year as a venue for artisan shops, workshops, meetings and pop-up events. That November, the Coloradoan covered Timnath Beerwerks opening as the town's first brewery, at the same address. The brewery's page describes the building as shared with a coffeehouse and public market and with NewFound Treasures, an antiques shop.
Becca Bay owns CF&G Public Market & Coffeehouse. She grew up in Fort Collins and taught fourth grade Colorado history in Greeley before the space opened up. In an interview with NOCO Style published October 19, she said that once the brewery had signed on, her question was "What better combination than coffee and beer in a community hub that has, for a century, brought people into downtown Timnath?" She opened the café side in January 2020.
Today her half of the building serves coffee, pastries, sourdough and a soda fountain, uses milk from Morning Fresh Dairy Farm, and has a kids' section upstairs. Fine & Funky boutique sells clothes and gifts in the retail space, and there's an event venue for rent. Bay also told NOCO Style she plans to expand the commissary kitchen so small farmers market vendors without their own kitchen space can grow their businesses there.
The Outdoor Calendar Went Quiet in October
The Timnath Chamber's Timnath Connect markets held seven Saturday markets at Pedro's Coffee Shop from April through October. Over the season they logged 172 vendor booth bookings from 86 local businesses, plus seven musical acts. The season ended October 17 with a Harvest Market.
CF&G's own farmers market, held on the second and fourth Sundays, runs May through October. Bay told NOCO Style it draws more than 50 vendors over a season, with regular bread, meat and egg sellers.
Taste of Timnath, the Chamber's month-long passport campaign, ended October 31. Passport holders redeemed 107 offers at nine stops, and half of net passport proceeds went to the Food Bank for Larimer County.
That's 86 vendor businesses at one market series and more than 50 at the other, and neither series comes back until spring. What's left is one building with a full indoor calendar, and that calendar now has the brewery's whole staff behind it.
How a Week at 4138 Main Street Runs Now
The brewery's November calendar has the same kind of event on the same night each week, which makes it easy to plan around.
| Night | What's on | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday | Tuesday Night Poker | 5 to 8 p.m. |
| Wednesday | Music Bingo, with a new theme each week | 6 to 8 p.m. |
| Thursday | Timnath Pub Runners | 6 to 9 p.m. |
| Most days | A rotating food truck | Usually 4 to 7:30 p.m. on weekdays, starting around noon on weekends |
Wednesday bingo themes for the rest of the month are 1980s Ballads on November 11, TV Theme Songs on November 18 and Disney Classics on November 25.
The trucks parked outside change through the week. The November lineup includes Pong Thai, Lulu's Taters, Huka Sushi, Taco Man, Bayou Smokehouse, La Piadina, Witty Pork's Pizza, Chaulkboard Express, Santa Elena's, The Red Cat and Merris Bros Pretzels & Sandwiches. Most of them come back on a regular cycle. Pong Thai and The Red Cat trade off Mondays, Witty Pork's Pizza shows up on the poker Tuesdays of November 10 and 24, and Merris Bros and Bayou Smokehouse alternate Sunday afternoons.
The brewery's eighth anniversary party week ran November 4 through 8, which lines up with the 2018 opening date in the Coloradoan's archive. It was the first big celebration after the brewery became Timnath-only. Bay's farmers markets are done for the season, but her café, soda fountain and boutique are all still in the building.
The Dates Between Now and the Holiday Festival
From publish day, here's what's on the calendar for Main Street and the town between now and early December:
- Thursday, November 12: Santa Elena's food truck from 4 to 7:30 p.m., with Timnath Pub Runners starting at 6.
- Saturday, November 21: Taco Man parks at noon for the whole afternoon.
- Thursday, November 26: Thanksgiving special hours at the brewery, noon to 5 p.m.
- Saturday, November 28: Cousins Maine Lobster, noon to 8 p.m. It's the longest truck slot on the November calendar.
- Wednesday, December 2: The Red Cat food truck, which comes back on December 23.
- Thursday, December 3: Live music from Christine Alice, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, December 5: The Town of Timnath's Holiday Festival at Timnath Community Park, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with Santa photos, local band and choir performances, ice sculptures and an artisan market.
The Holiday Festival is the town's main winter event outside the grain elevator, and the Town is running shuttles to it. Pickup points are at River Pass Road and Saddle Horn Drive, and at Twin Bridge Road and Wishing Well Drive.
Why the Grain Elevator Keeps Ending Up at the Center
Over its first century, the building served farmers who couldn't reach the bigger towns. Bay's description of the café's early days follows the same idea. She told NOCO Style that as Timnath grew, the town had a need "of people to come out, meet their neighbors and have a space to be without having to go to other communities to do that." For the past two years, the brewery ran taprooms in two towns, and as of this month it runs one, on Main Street.
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