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Tommyknocker Brewery is a craft brewery and brewpub in Idaho Springs, Colorado. They produce a line of beers and craft sodas, including root beer, made with distinctive ingredients such as mountain cherry, mountain maple and valerian root. Tommyknockers distributes their products across the United States and Canada.
This is a partial list of geothermal springs in the US State of Colorado. These springs range in volume from the hot springs around Glenwood Springs which keep the Colorado River from freezing for 50 miles (80 km) downstream to little springs with just a trickle of water.
This is a dynamic list of hot springs in the United States. The Western states in particular are known for their thermal springs: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming; but there are interesting hot springs in other states throughout the country.
Tommyknocker Brewery in Idaho Springs, Colorado owes its namesake to the mythical creature, and began serving in 1994 to meet the needs of the large number of prospectors, as part of the Colorado Silver Boom. [11] Knocker also appeared as a name for the same phenomena, in the folklore of Staffordshire miners. [citation needed]
Tommyknocker (producer) (born 1977), Italian hardcore techno producer; The Tommyknockers, a 1987 science fiction novel by Stephen King The Tommyknockers, a 1993 miniseries adapted from the novel; Tommyknocker Brewery, a brewery in Idaho Springs, Colorado "Tommyknockers", 1990 song by Blind Guardian from Tales from the Twilight World
Idaho Springs is located in northeastern Clear Creek County along Clear Creek near the confluence of its tributary, Chicago Creek. [ 11 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km 2 ), of which 0.03 square miles (0.09 km 2 ), or 1.53%, is water.
The springs emerge from several sources near the edge of the Colorado River. A large primitive soaking pool with a sandy bottom has been constructed against a sheer rock cliff. [2] The rock-lined soaking pool is reached by way of climbing down a fifty foot long rock chimney via footholds and handholds in the rock.
The district is roughly bounded by Center Alley, 14th Ave., Riverside Dr., and Idaho St. in Idaho Springs. [2] It is less than .5 miles (0.80 km) from where George A. Jackson discovered gold in Chicago Creek on January 7, 1859, setting off a gold rush which brought people to Denver and Colorado. [2]