After announcing in December 2024 that they would close Fiction Beer Company after 10 years, owners Ryan and Christa Kilpatrick got a call from some longtime fans of the brewery.

They wanted to ask “about the possibility of buying the taproom and the brand,” Christa said.

And they were used to asking questions. Because the group — Ted Menendez, Derek Boyce, Elise Sjostedt, Kyle Rosen, Anna Bromberg, Ali Kelly and John Ragole — had been trivia hosts at Fiction, 7101 E. Colfax Ave., during its weekly Thursday night trivia contests.

“We felt it was our responsibility to make sure this great East Colfax establishment continued to thrive for so many of us that have come to call this place a home away from home,” the group, Thursday Night Ventures, LLC, said in a statement emailed by Menendez.

“Many of the new owners have lived or continue to reside within walking distance of Fiction. All of us have memories we will never forget that are a part of the greater story. We couldn’t in good conscience walk away from Fiction when we knew we had the obligation and the ability to continue something special,” they continued.

Menendez said that brewing has already begun and that Fiction hopes to reopen “soon.”

The Kilpatricks founded Fiction in 2014 as a literature-themed brewery. The bar is made out of books, there are literary quotes on the tables, and the beers are named for characters or themes, including Old Bums & Beat Cowboys, a pale ale inspired by Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and Madame Psychosis, a hazy IPA named for David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest.”

On Tuesday, Christa Kilpatrick said that she and Ryan “love that our company is going to a group of folks that we’ve known for a long time — some of them close to 10 years.”