Shamrock Brewing Co. – Pueblo, Colorado
When my friend David Wagner, author of the spell-binding Rick Montoya Italian mysteries, invited us to dinner at the Shamrock Brewing Co. in his hometown of Pueblo, Colorado, I quickly leapt to the conclusion that Shamrock just might be the inspiration for O’Shea’s Irish Pub, the favorite gathering spot for Rick Montoya and other English-speaking expats living in Rome. I pictured “a decor that could best be described as mid-century modern, that century being the seventeenth” with wood being the dominant feature. My picture included a “professional tavern owner” with an appropriated name, maybe something like Guido Shamrock, would preside over the place. Shamrock wasn’t much like O’Shea’s. Thankfully, it wasn’t much like contemporary Irish pubs across the fruited plain…