Background – Wren House Brewing Around May of 2014, work began on converting a 1920’a house and garage into Westward Brewing Co. Drew Pool, Bill Hammond and head brewer Preston Thoeny are the owners. By the time they received…
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Wren House Brewing, Phoenix, AZ
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Rough Draft Brewing Company, San Diego, CA
Jeff Silver practiced making beer in his garage for 20 years before opening Rough Draft Brewing in 2012. Located in the “Beer” Mesa or Mira Mesa area it is one of several fairly new breweries in the area. Jeff focused on…
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Alpine Beer Company, Alpine, CA
In 1984 Pat McIlhenney, as many brewery owners, started homebrewing for fun on his off hours from firefighting. In the early 1990’s, Pat began working at a homebrew supply and attended brewing classes at UC Davis. In the late 1990’s…
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Relentless Brewing, Temecula, CA
Background James Hess (I understand not a relative of Mike), co-owner & brewmaster of Relentless Brewing, opened Relentless September 12, 2014. The tasting room came a few months later. Relentless was Temecula’s ninth brewery. Relentless Brewing just opened a restaurant, taproom and sports bar…
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Council Brewing Co., San Diego, CA
Council Brewing Co established in 2013 opened their doors in May 2014. Owners Curtis & Liz Chism completely self funded the endeavor starting with selling their house. Both Curtis and Liz were big homebrewers actually winning some awards but as I…
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Refuge Brewery, Temecula, CA
Refuge owner Curt Kucera opened Refuge Brewery in December 2012 . His idea was to bring the concepts of old world Belgian breweries to Temecula. Curt’s youngest son Jake works at the brewery. Other son, Chad is the head brewer…
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Resident Brewing Co., San Diego, CA
Background – Resident Brewing Co. Robert Masterson a successful IT Consultant received a brew kit one Christmas and began brewing at home. Brewing soon turned to a passion as he worked to create unique beers. Soon he decided he could start a small brewing operation in his spare time.…
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Black Market Brewing, Temecula, CA
Background Kevin Dyer like so many other start up brewers, got tired of corporate America and wanted to follow a dream. In 2007 he opened Black Market Brewing Co. utilizing a small 1 bbl. brewing system in a tiny 800 sq. ft.…
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Green Flash Brewing, San Diego, CA
Mike and Lisa Hinkley established Green Flash Brewing in 2002. Brewmaster Erik Jensen has been with the label since 2012. In late 2014 the Hinkley’s purchased Alpine Brewing, some 30 miles east of San Diego. Alpine founder Pat McIlhenney will remain…
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Kilowatt Brewing Company, San Diego, CA
The nanobrewery, Kilowatt Brewing Company started out in an industrial setting in Kearny Mesa by co-owners Chris Calva, Rachel Fischer, and Steve Kozyk. Long time home brewer Chris Calva was brought in to do his magic and Steve Kozyk, who has…
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