A 13-year-old brewery and taproom was among the casualties Thursday after an early-morning fire destroyed much of a strip mall in the Boulder County mountain town of Nederland.

Very Nice Brewing Co. had been opened by Jeffrey and Susan Green in October 2012 in a 2,100-square-foot space that formerly housed a fitness center in a back corner of the Caribou Village Shopping Center. However, the blaze destroyed the business and all the others in the center at 20 Lakeview Drive.

On the brewery’s Facebook page, the Greens described Thursday as “an exceptionally challenging day.”

The post expressed gratitude for “the firefighters and first responders who protected the town and the remains of the shopping center” as well as the fact that high winds, so common in communities along the Peak to Pe

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