The guys behind Durango’s Ska Brewing turned their attention to spirits with Peach Street Distillers. It’s located in Palisade, in the heart of Colorado’s fruit-growing region. See the usual spirits plus brandy, eau de vie, grappa, and bier schnapps (coming soon).

Carbondale’s distillery inn offers guest rooms for drinkers to “sleep with the stills.” The latest spirit release here is a rye whiskey, with more whiskeys and a bourbon yet to come. At Marble, distillery club members can fill their own barrels, and a new tasting room just opened down the road in Aspen.

Vodka reaches new heights at this Basalt distillery, where the process starts on the founder’s nearby potato farm. The Reserve vodka is made with a Polish Strobrawa potato, and the Colorado gin is a balance between new world and London dry varieties.

A drive down Highway 285 is always worth the stop in Buena Vista. Deerhammer can be found on the town’s main drag with a cozy taproom pouring award-winning single malt whiskey and a dutch-style gin, among other spirits.

Calling itself the world’s highest distillery, Breckenridge makes a famous bourbon and attracts drinkers to its mountain facility with a modern American restaurant. There’s also a tasting room right in the heart of the mountain town.

This Fort Collins distillery is helmed by a former Anheuser-Busch InBev brewer. She’s taken that exact science to a new, micro level here with a full range of spirits, including a Straight Rye and a throwback Falernum.

One of Denver’s newest distilleries is worth a stop for its combination spirits, bar, and food programs. Entirely house-made mixed drinks together with elevated paired dishes make for the full tasting experience inside a a plush and modern setting.

Now a Denver staple, Laws opened in 2014 under the direction of Stranahan’s founding distiller. Though he’s since left the business, spirits such as Laws Four Grain Straight Bourbon and Secale Straight Rye live on in reputation and popularity.

This Colorado Springs distillery is located in the basement of the century-old Ivywild School, now a marketplace of craft food and beverage offerings. At Axe and the Oak, patrons should share a bowl of bourbon punch or go for cocktails like the tobacco old fashioned.

Another micro distillery in the Springs, 291 has been making waves and winning awards with its flagship Colorado Rye aged in oak barrels and finished on aspen staves. Also worth trying: Single Barrel Colorado Bourbon and The Decc, a citrus clove liqueur.