Background Bottle Logic Brewing opened in 2014 by Wes Parker, Steve Napolitano and Brandon Buckner . Wes Parker is the founder and brewmaster of Bottle Logic Brewing. Steve Napolitano  is responsible for all of the non-brewing activities at Bottle Logic, but …

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Background Noble Ale Works was established in 2009 and started brewing in 2011. After five years in their original location they started a major expansion installing a bigger brewhouse and increasing their production capacity more than twofold. They also announced they …

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Background The owner of the highly acclaimed JT Schmid’s restaurant and brewery, Jason Schmid, unexpectedly died of a heart-related ailment at his home in Orange in 2019. Schmid opened the popular Anaheim restaurant, and it quickly blossomed into the go-to …

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Background – Iron John’s Brewing John Adkisson opened Iron John’s Brewing in 2014. After several years of intense home brewing, Adkisson decided to take his craft to the next level. In 1996 John left his accounting job and began brewing on the ten barrel brewpub system at Habaneros. John …

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Background – Device Brewing Company Ken Anthony opened Device Brewing Company in 2013. A friend of Ken’s introduced him to the world of home brewing when Ken was in college. Ken earned his BS and MS in Structural Engineering.  Ken home brewed for …

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Background New Glory Craft Brewery was founded in 2013 by 25-year-old home brewer and French native Julian Lux and quickly became a Sacramento favorite.  Julien grew up in a small town in France, halfway between Paris and Belgium.  During the summers, …

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Background – Brasserie Saint James Arthur Farley purchased a historic icehouse in 2010 and two years later, opened Brasserie Saint James, a restaurant and brewery using the water from the property’s celebrated artesian wells.  In 1929, the owners of the icehouse …

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Background Equinox Brewing was Fort Collins’ sixth brewery, and its founders, the husband-and-wife team of Colin and Shannon Westcott, never sought to expand beyond the city. In the ‘90s and 2000s, as Colin brewed for Anchorage’s Midnight Sun and led …

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