We're a craft beer bar that happens to make really good pizza — not a restaurant that happens to pour beer. Families are genuinely welcome here. So is loud, good, live music. Here's how the room works.
We opened as Snowpack Taproom — a craft beer bar with 32 rotating taps. The brick-oven pizza came later, because we wanted the food to be as good as the beer. It is. But the heart of this place has always been the bar, the taps, and the hang.
Upstairs — the Taproom:the bar, the taps, and our weekend live music. It's the loud, social heart of the place. Downstairs — the Pizzeria: same kitchen, quieter room. Where you go to actually hear your friends.
We've had live music on weekend nights since the start — it's a neighborhood thing, not a nightclub. If the band's playing and you want a calmer night, the downstairs Pizzeria is always there. Come for the beer, stay for the music, or duck downstairs. All of it is Snowpack.
A huge number of our regulars are parents, and their kids are some of our favorite people. Kids are welcome here — we just ask that families keep them at the table, because of what kind of room this is. More on that below.
This isn't about keeping anyone out — it's about safety, and about what kind of room this is. Snowpack is a working bar. Our team moves across the floor all night with hot brick-oven pizzas, full trays, and glassware. A child wandering, running, or playing in that environment is a real hazard — to them, to our staff, and to the people around them.
Children must stay seated with their party at all times.
No running, no wandering the taproom, and never at the bar — and the same goes outside, on every patio and in the stage area.
This goes double for outside. The outdoor stage area, both the upstairs and downstairs patios, and the grounds around the building are not a play space — we sit right off Highway 285, one of the most dangerous roads in the state. A child slipping out of sight out there is the one thing we can't take a chance on. Inside or out, kids need to be supervised and within arm's reach of their party at all times.
And to be straight about how we handle it: if the kids are running loose and the rule's being ignored, we'll come by once — friendly, just a heads-up. If it carries on after that, we'll close out your tab and kindly ask you to come back another time, without the little ones. We'd genuinely rather never have that conversation — but a child's safety, and everyone else's night, isn't something we'll bend on.
And every parent knows the other one — the meltdown. If the little one hits a rough patch, a good cry or a full tantrum, we just ask that you step outside with them for a few minutes until it passes. No judgment at all, we've every one of us been there. It's the kindest thing for them, and it keeps the night easy for the room.
If you're already the parent who keeps your crew at the table — thank you, genuinely. This was never aimed at you. And if the night up here gets a little too lively, the downstairs Pizzeria is a calmer room and always open to you. We want every family to have a great night — and we want to keep being the taproom our regulars fell for.
Here's the honest version: we could go 21+, or 18+ — plenty of bars do. We don't want to, and we never have. Snowpack is and always will be Conifer's place, all ages welcome at the table. Keeping it that way only asks one thing of all of us — parents, regulars, everybody alike: we follow the rules of the taproom. Do that, and there's a stool here for your whole crew.
This one isn't up to us: because we serve food, health code prohibits animals inside — service animals are the only exception, and that's the law. Beyond that, Snowpack is a working bar with hot food crossing the floor all night and tight quarters between tables. It's no place for a pet, no matter how good a boy he is.
No pets inside the taproom — service animals only.
Friendly pets are welcome on the patio. Leashed and quiet at all times — never indoors.
One honest note, because it's become a thing: real service animals are always welcome, and we'd never make anyone prove a disability — that's the law and it's the right call. But when a “service dog” clearly isn't one, we'll ask the two questions we're allowed to: is the dog a service animal required because of a disability, and what task has it been trained to perform. If the animal is out of control, barking, or wandering the floor, we'll ask that it be taken outside.Passing a pet off as a service dog isn't fair to the people who truly rely on one.
The patio's a great spot for a beer with your pup at your side. If they need to stretch their legs, there's a sidewalk around the building made for it. Keep them leashed and calm and everyone — dogs included — has a better night. Thanks for looking out for the room.
That's the whole house, top to bottom. Good beer, great pizza, live music, and a room that knows what it is. Come hang.