Six facilities, and four of them are breweries offering contract space to other brands. The only published minimum comes from the one that isn't a brewery at all: Motherlode Co-Packing, a sauces-and-syrups plant in Hudson that added a canning line — 400 gallons for a trial run.
The published minimum first, then the rest alphabetically.
| Facility | City | Minimum run | Formats | Alcohol | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motherlode Co-Packing | Hudson | 400 galtrial; reorders run 800–3,200 gal | Glass, PET, pouch, can | Not published | Started in 2018 as a sauces, syrups and drink-mix co-packer; a canning line was added later, so beverage isn't the primary focus — categories aren't detailed on their site. FDA, HACCP and SQF certified, 50,000 sq ft. |
| Denver Beer CompanyContract Brewing — acquired by Wilding, 2025 | Denver | Not published | Can 12 oz (client pre-print), keg 1/2 & 1/6 bbl | Beer, hard seltzer, RTD | Contract brewing, tank space and packaging with batches of 60–240 barrels. Acquired by Wilding in early 2025; the contract-brewing page is still active, but the phone number listed on the site is a placeholder. |
| Prost BrewingContract Brewing | Northglenn | Not published | Can, keg | Beer, sours, NA beer, hard seltzer, RTD | 60,000 sq ft plant with fermenters at 40/60/100/200/300 bbl, so small lots are possible even without a published floor. Also fills canned mineral water. Their own site blocks automated verification — confirmed via trade press instead. |
| Quantum Canning | Frederick | Not published | Can 200/250 ml, 12 oz, 16 oz | Energy, kombucha, RTD, canned cocktails | Counter-pressure filling with flash pasteurisation across a wide category range: craft water, tea, cider, kombucha and canned cocktails alongside energy drinks. |
| Rocky Mountain Cultures | Gypsum | Not published | Glass, can | Not published | Organic fermented drinks — kombucha, jun, RTD — in both conventional and organic co-pack lines. Listed via the Kombucha Brewers International directory; no official site found at verification. |
| Sleeping Giant Brewing Company | Denver | Not published | Can 12/16 oz + slim, glass 6-pack, keg | Beer | Contract brewing with capacity scaling from 75,000 to 175,000 barrels a year. A roughly 2,500 bbl/year volume commitment appears in their materials — that's an annual quota, not a per-order minimum, so we haven't listed it as one. |
Four of Colorado's six facilities are breweries that opened contract space to outside brands — a common path in a state with this much brewing capacity to spare. All four skip publishing a minimum, even Sleeping Giant, whose materials mention a roughly 2,500-barrel annual commitment that isn't the same thing as a first-order floor.
The exception is Motherlode Co-Packing, which started as a sauces-and-syrups operation and added canning later — beverage is a secondary line for them, yet they're the only one to publish an actual trial-run number.
The practical read: if you're shopping by minimum run in Colorado, the facility most willing to tell you the number isn't the one built for beverages first.
Across the 217 facilities we track nationally, about one in seven publishes a minimum — Colorado is close to that rate, at one of six. That's despite having more brewing capacity per facility than most states on this list, which usually correlates with more transparency, not less.
Compare it with Wisconsin, also brewery-heavy, at four of ten, or Illinois, also one of seven.
Two of Colorado's four contract breweries have caveats worth reading before you call: one changed ownership in 2025, one blocks automated verification of its own site. Confirm current terms directly.
Denver Beer Company was acquired by Wilding in early 2025. Their contract-brewing page is still live, but confirm current ownership, terms and contact details rather than relying on the phone number listed — it reads as a placeholder.
Sleeping Giant's ~2,500 bbl/year figure is a volume commitment, not a minimum order. Don't read it as "the smallest run they'll take" — ask them directly what a first order actually requires.
Tell us the product and the volume. We come back with the facilities that can actually run it — including the five here that don't publish a number.
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