Owners of the brewery, located near Interstate 70 and Peoria Street, announced Saturday they will be opening a second location in Lakewood this fall, as well as begin producing cans of the award-winning Lao Wang Lager.

“Everything that we’ve done has been part of a plan,” owner Danny Wang said. “Things just fall in place at times … we’re lucky in that respect.”

When I heard about some mysterious upstart who was selling a new nanobrew out of his parent’s south Federal noodle house, I was intrigued. So on a recent chilly Saturday, famished and up for adventure, my group of three headed to the restaurant for a taste.

Then I saw the sign posted to the restaurant door advertising the in-house brew and cringed a little: Lao Wang Lager, it read.

Maybe I lack appreciation for subtlety, but lagers have never been my style, and the L-word recalls those shameful early drinking days when PBR was a luxury.

My doubts began to waver with the first perfumey whiff of the golden liquid the aged restaurant proprietors poured into my pint glass. By the end of the first spicy, light and slightly sweet sip, Caution: Brewing’s flagship beer had won over our table.

The jolt of spice in a traditionally mild – or at most slightly hopped – style was just the first of many surprises. There’s also the fact that Caution — a tiny shop projecting a max of 50 barrels a year – is pulling off the complicated process of lagering so well.

And then there’s brewer Danny Wang’s philosophy of making beer for those uninitiated into the cult of craft beer, even as other shops race to the top of the IBU and ABV scales.

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