Odell's Five Points Brewhouse sits on the corner of 30th and Larimer, at 2945 Larimer Street, in a brick shell that went up in 1917. It is the Fort Collins brewery's Denver outpost, and it does not pretend to be a destination beer hall. It is a working taproom that happens to pour very well.
Who would love it: anyone who wants Odell classics on draft plus a rotating wall of one-off batches you cannot buy in a can. Who would hate it: drinkers after a quiet booth and table service, because this is a stand-at-the-bar, find-your-own-seat kind of room.
The building is the first thing worth clocking. The two-story, roughly 4,000 square foot space keeps its original brick, and the countertops are cut from reclaimed floorboards, per Odell's own site. Brewbound reported the taproom opened with 16 taps split across two bars, an outdoor patio with two fire pits, a partially covered rooftop, and a stage for live sets.
The pour is the reason to come. The standing list runs the Odell catalogue: 90 Shilling, the brewery's amber backbone, alongside Odell IPA, Easy Street Wheat, and the Myrcenary double IPA. 5280 noted that more than half the taps are reserved for experimental beer brewed on site through a 10-barrel pilot system, which is the part regulars actually chase.
Start with 90 Shilling if you have never had it. It is a sub-six-percent amber that built the brewery, and it still reads as the honest benchmark the rest of the board is measured against. Then ask the bartender what came off the pilot system that week, because those kegs do not last and they will not be there next visit.
Skip the assumption that this is a full kitchen. Food leans light and rotates with trucks and pop-ups rather than a deep menu, so plan the visit around the beer and treat anything edible as a bonus. Westword files the location under Five Points and RiNo breweries, which is exactly the company it keeps.
The crowd is RiNo standard. Early afternoon pulls remote workers and the patio dog crowd, and it tightens after work into a mix of beer tourists doing the Larimer crawl and locals who treat the pilot taps as a weekly check-in. Wednesday through Saturday the room runs to midnight; Sunday through Tuesday it closes at ten, so the late seat is a weekend-leaning bet.
The fire pits do real work on a cold Denver night, and the rooftop is the seat to angle for when the weather cooperates. Tripadvisor reviewers through 2026 land consistently on the same two notes: the beer is the draw and the service is friendly, with the experimental taps singled out more than the food.
Reviewers on Yelp, where the brewhouse holds a steady run of ratings through 2026, repeat the same line: come for the rotating board, stay for the patio. The common gripe is parking, which is street-only and tight on event nights. Plan to walk in from the RiNo core if a game is on at nearby Coors Field.
It plays differently from Denver's other RiNo taprooms. Ratio Beerworks in Denver runs louder and more punk-leaning, and Great Divide Brewing in Denver trades on its barrel-aged heavyweights. Odell sits between them as the steady, well-run pour that rewards a second round on the pilot board.
Go for the rotating experimental taps and a patio seat, not for a sit-down dinner. It earns its place among Denver craft beer bars on the strength of the pilot system alone. See where it lands in our Denver bar guide and our roundup of the best craft beer in Denver, or compare it with Cerebral Brewing in Denver.
Sources: Odell Brewing official site (2026); Brewbound opening report; 5280 opening alert; Westword venue listing; Tripadvisor and Yelp reviews (2026); Google Maps.
