Drink Blue Moon in the ballpark brewery that invented it
Bellyslide Belgian White, 1995
The Sandlot opened with Coors Field in 1995, tucked into the ballpark's right-field corner. It brews on site, it has done since day one, and a beer poured here is not a stadium beer.
Why it's unique
Blue Moon was invented in this room. Keith Villa, a Coors brewmaster with a doctorate in brewing biochemistry from Leuven, wanted to make a Belgian wheat beer that Americans would actually drink, and added Valencia orange peel and coriander to soften the yeast-forward character of the style. It launched in 1995 as Bellyslide Belgian White and was sold nowhere but here, until Coors rebranded it and took it national. It went on to become one of the largest beer brands in the world, and it has exactly one birthplace.
The Sandlot was also the first working brewery built inside a Major League Baseball stadium. It is no longer the only one: Terrapin ran a five-barrel brew lab inside Truist Park in Atlanta from 2017, and since 2025 that space has been a Blue Moon Brewery & Grill, which also brews on site. So the record here is being first, in 1995 — with the small circularity that the other ballpark brewery now operates under the name of the beer invented at this one.
Before you go
The taproom sits inside the gates, so you need a ticket to a Rockies game to get in, and it opens on game days only. That is the single biggest constraint on visiting and there is no way around it.
Go early. It fills in the hour before first pitch and stays full. The brewery has taken more than 65 Great American Beer Festival medals since 1995, so ask what is on that is not Blue Moon.