Kiitos Brewing is closing its flagship location in Salt Lake City’s Granary District — after nine tumultuous years in which the beermaker weathered the COVID-19 pandemic, construction delays on a second location and Chapter 11 reorganization.

The brewery announced Wednesday on Instagram that the taproom at 608 W. 700 South will close after Saturday. Kiitos’ second location, a bar at 1533 S. 1100 East in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House neighborhood, will remain “open indefinitely,” the Instagram post said.

“It’s difficult to describe the range of emotions our team is feeling,” the writer of the Instagram post said. “We hope that all of you will come by this week and next to share some love and raise a glass to all of the great times and awesome memories shared here over the past decade.”

Kiitos opened in a former refrigeration plant in the Granary District in August 2017, with a goal of producing craft beer that was mindful of the environment and the community. “We do everything we can to minimize our impact,” owner Andrew Dasenbrock told The Salt Lake Tribune in 2018.

When the brewery opened, it boasted of employing a High Efficiency Brewing System, with a mash press to extract liquid from malted barley that uses 30% less water than traditional brewing methods. The brewery also touted its use of mostly locally sourced ingredients, and that it sold its grocery store product in aluminum cans that are more easily recyclable than bottles.

Years after opening in the Granary District, Dasenbrock said he had hopes of expanding Kiitos’ brand to several locations around Utah, including in downtown Salt Lake City and in Sandy. Those plans were put on hold in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic caused many bars and restaurants to close for months on end.

“We were sailing through clear skies and had a map ahead of us,” Dasenbrock told The Tribune in 2024, when construction on the Sugar House location was underway. During COVID, he added, “we were just in the middle of a storm with absolutely no data on how big the storm was or how long it was going to last.”

The work to renovate a former sewing machine repair shop in Sugar House took more than a year, in part because of a dispute with the building’s previous owner. The Sugar House location opened last October.

Kiitos filed for Chapter 11 protection in April, in an effort to reorganize its debts. According to the filing with the United States Bankruptcy Court, Kiitos spent $748,104 more than it brought in in 2025. Many of Kiitos’ creditors are businesses and individuals who had made loans to the brewery, the court documents said.

A California company listed Kiitos’ brewery equipment for sale, with bids taken through Aug. 6 in an online auction.

Dasenbrock was not immediately available for comment Thursday, and there has been no announcement about where Kiitos will produce its beer going forward.

“We will all surely miss the community that was built here in the Granary District,” Kiitos’ management wrote in its Instagram post Wednesday, “but we also look forward to supporting the community that will continue growing at our Sugar House location over the years to come.”