Lone Tree Brewing Emphasizes Team, Quality, and Longstanding Partnerships In 2025 Year In Review

LONE TREE, CO— On the heels of their 14th anniversary celebration, Lone Tree Brewing continues to prioritize beer quality in 2026. Its leaders attribute this emphasis, as well as their hard working team and longstanding partners, to their ongoing success.  

Here is the 2025 Lone Tree Brewing Company Year In Review. 

Beer In Review 

Among Lone Tree’s 2025 specialty can releases were the popular springtime SKU, Honey Lager; as well as a Hazy IPA, Oktoberfest and Chocolate & Pistachio Stout. Some noteworthy draft beers were also crafted for Stout Month in February, and in collaboration with Public Offering Brewing.

Also in 2025, Lone Tree revamped their flagship IPA recipe. Read more about this process and roll out in Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine’s Brewing Industry Guide. 

Hop Zombie, the decorated and cult-followed Imperial Red IPA, made a Summer Solstice appearance at Lone Tree Brewing Parker before creeping back to the taps for the thirteenth Hop Zombie Day in October. As always, it was greeted with a line out the door awaiting its arrival– and it didn’t last long. 

Production

In 2025, Lone Tree’s brewing team produced 3,727 barrels of beer brewed with 270,572 pounds of barley, wheat, oats, rice, corn combined and 4,741 pounds of hops along with various advanced hop oil products. They filled 427,008 12oz. cans. 

Recipe development and refinement for the Lone Tree IPA increased hop additions by almost 25 percent last year, and a 17 percent increase for the Double IPA, to create the most robust, fully-saturated hoppy beers. Blueberry Blonde fruit puree additions increased by almost 60 percent to achieve a truly fruit-forward Blonde. The brewhouse has also been transitioning the Peach Pale Ale into the new and improved Peach Wheat Ale, with a targeted release date of late February 2026. 

Throughout the year, the brewery recaptured 215,000 gallons of water. Their reused pallet wraps saved 450 pounds of plastic wrap from landfills. 

Team

A few of Lone Tree’s time-honored employees shifted roles in 2025. Candace Peterson was promoted to Director of Tasting Rooms, Dennis O’Harrow (previous Head Brewer for six years) decided to step into the role of Lead Brewer, and Dale Hollars was promoted to Head Brewer after 6 years with Lone Tree. Improving upon many years of successful recipe formulation and brewing proficiency takes considerable discipline, and Lone Tree’s brewhouse staff is always up to the task.  

In total, the brewery now has 22 employees. “We’re extremely proud of the hardworking individuals that make this not only a successful business, but a place we’re happy to wake up for every morning,” says Jerry Siote, Director of Brewhouse Operations. 

Sales & Distribution  

Lone Tree sold their packaged beers across Colorado in 2025 via their longstanding partnership with Western Distributing. Throughout the course of the year in Colorado distribution, Mexican Lager, Red Ale and Blueberry Blonde comprised 70 percent of the total volumes sold across Lone Tree’s packaged portfolio. 13 percent of these sales were in the Denver Metro area, while more than 36 percent of sales were realized from towns and cities in the Lone Tree area heading south to Colorado Springs .

Community and Events

Lone Tree donated upwards of $22,000 to their nonprofit partners last year. These contributions included $10,000 for the Bridge Transition Program at the brewery’s annual car show. Other recipients of their philanthropic efforts included Special Olympics, Adams Camp, 2Blondes All Breed Rescue, 7 Sisters, and the Colorado State Firefighters Foundation.

Towards the end of 2025, Lone Tree’s brew crew crafted the Polar Plunge Cold IPA in conjunction with the City of Lone Tree’s Police Department. A portion of the Cold IPA sales will be donated to the annual Special Olympics fundraiser taking place in April 2026. 

Lone Tree rounded out 2025 by celebrating 14 years in business! Owners John Winter and Jerry Siote are proud of this accomplishment amid tumultuous times, and committed to crafting high quality beer and supporting their high quality people for years to come.   

Moving Forward 

A leader in the Colorado beer industry and beyond, Lone Tree continues to hone their brewing craft as a top priority– even in another year of NA and cannabis drinks. Siote told SevenFifty Daily that brewing beer continues to be the bedrock and default mission of Lone Tree for their 2026 beer industry predictions piece. 

Lone Tree Brewing has exciting milestones on the horizon. Parker locals and visitors can plan on the second anniversary of Lone Tree Brewing Parker location on Saturday, February 28. Summer Solstice Hop Zombie and the classic Hop Zombie will creep back on tap in June and October, respectively. And finally, the brewery will celebrate its silver anniversary in December. 

Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries about Lone Tree Brewing Co. 

ABOUT LONE TREE BREWING CO. 

Lone Tree Brewing Company was the first brewery to open in Lone Tree, Colorado in Denver’s South Metro area in 2011, and has remained a local staple for more than a decade. Now deeply rooted in this community, the brewing company is growing friends at its two tasting rooms– the original location near Park Meadows Mall in Lone Tree, and Lone Tree Brewing Parker in the heart of Parker, Colorado. Visit the brewery online at lonetreebrewingco.com.

Hop Zombie To Be Transformed For Summer Solstice at Lone Tree Brewing Parker

PARKER, CO– Lone Tree Brewing Company’s cult-followed Hop Zombie will branch out and grow friends in Parker this summer, making an appearance on Summer Solstice at the brewery’s new location. 

Hop Zombie stirs beneath the glow of the longest day of the year, rising again— but this year, the thirteenth anniversary of this notorious creature, transformed by the heat and haze of summer into an Imperial Juicy IPA that lures you in with hypnotic waves of tropical fruit and concealing a potent 9% ABV bite. True to its lineage, Hop Zombie is loaded with several hop varieties, including Nugget, Strata, Motueka, Cryo Motueka, and Cryo El Dorado. 

As per usual, Hop Zombie will appear for one day only on Saturday, June 21, beginning at 11am. The first 10 undead souls who arrive at the brewery will score a free glass, and all who are lucky— and timely— can purchase limited 6-packs and specialty swag, but only while supplies last. 

The Summer Hop Zombie artwork is inspired by another cult favorite, The Sandlot movie. This year’s t-shirts and glassware say "You’re killing me, Zombie!” Don't strike out—be there when the Zombie rises. (And, be on the lookout for the original zombie to creep onto the taps at Lone Tree’s original location this fall.)

The 2 Salty Sarge food truck will be on-site slinging ballpark-style eats to pair with this new Hop Zombie variant.  

Media interested in learning more about the now 13-year Hop Zombie legacy and this new variant can contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com. 

ABOUT LONE TREE BREWING COMPANY

Lone Tree Brewing Company was the first brewery to open in Lone Tree, Colorado in Denver’s South Metro area in 2011, and has remained a local staple for more than a decade. Now deeply rooted in this community, the brewing company is growing friends at its two tasting rooms– the original location near Park Meadows Mall in Lone Tree, and the recently opened Lone Tree Brewing Parker in the heart of Parker, Colorado. Find Lone Tree’s stylistically diverse lineup of canned beers in cans and on draft in Colorado and Kansas to enjoy with your buds. Visit the brewery online at lonetreebrewingco.com.