How do you get into Maddie’s Speakeasy & Distillery?
We have not confirmed it. Maddie’s Speakeasy & Distillery is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Old Fashioned, Boulevardier, and Ward Eight are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Maddie’s Speakeasy & Distillery sits
Maddie’s Speakeasy & Distillery is in Denver, Colorado, in the county of the same name, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists eleven speakeasies and hidden bars in Denver. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Denver.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Maddie’s Speakeasy & Distillery are Rose & Thorn, about 300 m away, Mario’s Speakeasy Pizza, about 350 m away, and Speakeasy / Secret Spot, about 400 m away.
Colorado holds 37 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Colorado speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Colorado
Colorado did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1916, four years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Colorado already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Colorado.
What the newspapers recorded in Denver
Searching the Library of Congress run of Colorado newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Denver:
- The Denver Jewish news, January 4, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Colorado statesman, October 20, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Denver Jewish news, May 25, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Colorado statesman, March 15, 1924 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Maddie’s Speakeasy & Distillery through its own website and on Facebook.
The address is 1592 Wynkoop St, Denver, CO 80202-1130. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Maddie’s Speakeasy & Distillery we hold street address, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold telephone number, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a distillery.