Everyone knows about John Hickenlooper. He is the co-founder of Wynkoop Brewing Company. In 2003, he was elected Mayor of Denver and re-elected this year.

John is the best known brew/mayor in Colorado. In April 2005 - less than two years into his first term - TIME Magazine named Mayor Hickenlooper one of the top five “big-city” mayors in America.

That is heady stuff.

But, when it comes to being a brew/mayor, John Hickenlooper is not the Lone Ranger. While Denver's Mayor gets the headlines and all the press, Colorado's longest sitting brew/mayor is quietly brewing his beer in the back of Colorado's oldest casino in one of the state's oldest towns.

Meet Buddy Schmalz, brew/mayor of Central City.

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