Background Pals Brewing Company materialized in 2015 at an Oettinger Family Thanksgiving dinner. Paul Oettinger (aka Pal) started homebrewing back in college. After earning his Microbiology degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he began experimenting with many beer styles and…
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Ragged Island Brewing, Portsmouth, RI
Background Three couples opened Ragged Island Brewing, Matt and Katie Gray, Patrick and Liz Donovan, and John and Margo Almeida. Almeida has been retired for about twenty years, but had been busy sailing, building homes and home brewing. The other…
Tagged with: Aquidneck Island, beercation, brewhouse, John Almeida, Matt Gray, Narragansett Bay, Patrick Donovan, portsmouth, tasting room
York Beach Beer Company, York, ME
Background Father and Son Dave and David Rowland opened York Beach Beer Company in March of 2019. They installed a 10 barrel brewhouse in an old Post Office about a block from Short Sands Beach. Their involvement in brewing started…
Tagged with: Beach Beer, beercation, Dave Rowland, David Rowland, Maine Brewery, SoMe Brewing, tasting room, York Beach
Mason’s Brewing Company, Brewer, ME
Background Mason’s Brewing Company opened its doors in 2016 thanks to Chris Morley. Chris is a former Bangor cop who went into mortgage lending, then was bit hard by the home-brewing bug. After years of researching West Coast taprooms and…
Cooper’s Family Brewing, Scranton, PA
Background Cooper’s Family Brewing was born in an old boiler room in Cooper’s Seafood House, a landmark and roadside attraction in Scranton PA. The restaurant has been owned and operated by the Cooper family since 1948. Jack Cooper, who co-owns the…
Counterpart Brewing, Niagara Falls, Ontario
Background Counterpart Brewing was founded by Joe Sartor and Greg Gnys. The two Niagara Region natives met when they were working in Vancouver. Living in the Vancouver area is where Gnys developed his passion for craft beer, and had thoughts…
Tagged with: beercation, beertraveler, brewpub, canadian breweries, gastropub, Greg Gnys, Joe Sartor, Niagara Falls
Bullfinch Brewery, Syracuse, NY
Background Before Dave Collins opened Bullfinch Brewery, he worked as a bartender where he found a growing interest in the history of alcohol. This led to his infatuation with the beer brewing process and the inherent chemistry that accompanies it.…
Yellowstone Beer Company, West Yellowstone, MT
Background It appears Yellowstone Beer Company opened in 2023. We could not identify the ownership or anything about how they came to be. The Madison Crossing building that the brewery is located in was originally built in the 1930’s as…
New Heights Brewing, Nashville, TN
Background Like many brewery backgrounds, New Heights Brewing also starts with Jeff Fountain, receiving a brew kit from his wife, Tracey. Jeff fell in love with the process and honed his skills experimenting with new varieties. One day he became…
Thunderhead Brewing, Kearney, NE
Background Thunderhead Brewing was founded in 1999 by Trevor Schaben, his wife Jenny, and his parents Pam and Henry. The name is a reference to the thunderstorms that roll across the plains. Thunderheads roll in, storms are brewing, and the…
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