A former head brewer and investor in Live Slow Brewing , the beer-and-bowling concept in Wheat Ridge that reportedly raised $850,000 but never opened, now accuses a founder of stealing company cash and wasting it on trips to Las Vegas and collectible figurines.

Alan Simons is an experienced brewer who spent seven years with Backcountry Brewery in Frisco and another seven leading the beermaking at Dry Dock Brewery in Aurora. In 2022, he left the latter for Live Slow, which was supposed to open that fall at 2625 Kipling St.

“I reached out to Grant (Babb) and asked if they were looking for a brewer, and the response was, ‘Maybe,’” Simons recalled in an interview with Westword that year. “So we met over the course of a few months, talking and hanging out and having beers.”

Simons now says t

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