Denver brewery, craft beer festival guests file discrimination complaint against Greenwood Village hotel

By Lauren Penington | lpenington@denverpost.com and Katie Langford | klangford@denverpost.com | The Denver Post

UPDATED: January 14, 2024 at 1:55 PM MST

Organizers and guests of a Denver craft beer festival filed a state discrimination complaint against a Greenwood Village hotel after two Puerto Rican guests said a manager refused to check one of them in and later kicked them both out and called the police.

Raices Brewing Co. owners Jose Beteta and Tamil Maldonado, who organize the national Latino craft beer festival Suave Fest, and guests Alberto Santiago and Jorge Montalvo filed a discrimination complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division in late November against the Extended Stay America in Greenwood Village.

The complaint, filed through firm Spark Justice Law LLC, alleges that when Santiago arrived at the hotel at 5200 S. Quebec St. on the afternoon of Sept. 30, the hotel manager refused to check him in and claimed his Puerto Rican ID was not a valid form of identification.

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