Method & Muse Puts Inspiration From the Plate into the Bottle

Westword | Gabe Toth | July 24, 2025

The new Method & Muse Spirits in Arvada may not have a long resume of distillery experience to tap into. But what it does have is a team loaded with scientific acumen, creative know-how and a broad palette of world flavors that they’re bringing to a selection of gins and amari.

Most of the founders met during undergrad in the late 1990s at the Colorado School of Mines. The five-person group now has a wide array of graduate and undergraduate STEM degrees, but the thread that tied their friendship together over the years — culminating in the recent opening of their tasting room in Olde Town Arvada — is a love of flavor, according to CEO Aubrey Wigner.

“We're all big explorers of flavor, so we used to have these parties where we'd get together and we'd do cooking and cuisine from all over the place, thematically,” he says. “That was how we formed memories of our friendships. And then we were all into brewing and similarly did a bunch of weird beers.”

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