Tap Fourteen sits a half block from Coors Field with 70 Colorado beers on tap and the Rockies game on the screens, which makes it the rooftop a baseball crowd ends up on whether or not it planned to.
The beer garden sits on the rooftop of Hayter's & Co at 1920 Blake Street, deep in LoDo and steps from the Coors Field gates. The Rooftop Guide lists it among Denver's rooftop bars, and the pitch is in the name: 70 craft beers on tap, all brewed in Colorado, plus what the venue bills as the largest Colorado whiskey selection in the city. This is a beer-first room with a ballpark view, not a dark sports bar.
The room
The rooftop runs on wooden community benches, astro-turf, fire pits, and string lights, the classic beer-garden kit. On a rooftop the bad-seat test changes shape, because the enemy is not a bad angle but the afternoon sun washing out a screen. Tap Fourteen plays the games anyway; one reviewer notes the rooftop carries Chicago Bears broadcasts for the transplant crowd. The move on a bright day game is a bench in the shade with the screen at your back angle and Coors Field a block away.
What to order
Drink local and drink wide. With 70 Colorado taps, the play is to sample across breweries you cannot get on a single tap wall anywhere else, then close with a pour from the Colorado whiskey list the venue is known for. A local IPA on the roof before a Rockies first pitch is the signature order. At the $$ level the value is the breadth of Colorado-only beer and the rooftop seat that comes with it. Reviewers consistently flag the Colorado-only tap list and the deep whiskey selection as the reasons to climb the stairs, and because the lines rotate, the board rarely looks the same on two visits running.
The crowd and best time to go
This is a seasonal rooftop that comes alive in warm weather, so hours run longer in summer and pull back in the cold months; check ahead in the off-season. The crowd is Rockies fans, LoDo after-work groups, and rooftop regulars chasing the Denver sun. The best version is a summer day game, when the gates are a block away and the beer garden fills before and after first pitch.
Who it is for
Tap Fourteen is for the Rockies fan who wants Colorado beer and open sky over a windowless sports bar, and for groups who treat the rooftop as a pregame base. It suits warm-weather crowds, beer hunters, and after-work LoDo regulars. Skip it in deep winter or when you need a guaranteed indoor screen for a marquee night game, because the rooftop is a fair-weather room.
The verdict
Tap Fourteen wins on place and pour. It is a half block from Coors Field, it offers 70 Colorado-only taps and a deep whiskey list, and the rooftop turns a ballgame into a beer-garden afternoon. The honest caveat is the form and the season: this is a fair-weather rooftop, so it is at its best in summer and not the room for a snowy night game. Come on a warm day game, drink Colorado, watch the gates fill. For an indoor option near the ballpark, see Milepost Zero.
For the rest of the city's game-day options, see our guide to the best sports bars in Denver and the wider sports bars by occasion. The full local scene is mapped in the Denver bar guide.
Sources: Tap Fourteen official site, tapfourteen.com (2026); The Rooftop Guide, Tap 14 Beer Garden, Denver; Yelp venue listing (updated May 2026).
