Background Worthy Brewing owner Roger Worthington made appearance in the local beer scene in 2010 with his Portland-based Indie Hops company, which supplies hops to craft brewers and helps fund OSU’s hop breeding program. But before his life in beer, …

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Background Founded by Larry Sidor, Dave Wilson and Paul Evers, Crux Fermentation Project opened its garage doors on June 30, 2012. After eight years with Deschutes Brewing, Larry and his friends decided it was time to open their own brewery. …

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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 Mike Mallozzi and Myles Stone, opened Borderlands Brewing  in downtown Tucson in 2011. The brewery, in the Tucson Warehouse Arts District is in a brick building with wooden exposed rafters that was built in the early 1900s. Voltron Brewing …

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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 – Coopersmith’s Pub and Brewing Though prohibition in Fort Collins ended in 1969, the breweries that would become a staple in Western college town culture did not arrive for another twenty years. It was Fort Collins’ status as a college …

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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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