It was mid-summer 2020, and Kyle Carbaugh had a choice. He could either continue to brew and can beer for distribution to the Denver-area liquor stores that were demanding it during the rush for stay-at-home drinking, or he could focus on making a new line of pulpy, somewhat controversial fruit beers that were selling out within minutes at Greeley’s Wiley Roots Brewing, which Carbaugh and his wife, Miranda, founded in 2013. “In a pandemic, how do you choose between being able to make money in the taproom or satisfying orders from your distributor?” he asks. “We wanted to do both.” So that's exactly what Carbaugh is doing. In early December, Wiley Roots took delivery of a huge new thirty-barrel brewhouse that will replace the seven-barrel system that has done the job for the past several years. Only a few Colorado breweries own systems this big, and most are among the state’s largest beer makers.