We originally posted Fate Brewing Company in January 2015. Then they were forced to change to McFate. Finally in 2019 they were again able to use Fate Brewing. Background Steve McFate grew up in Scottsdale, AZ and was a home …

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Helton Brewing opened their doors in May 2016. Owner Brian Helton is an 18-year veteran of the beer industry, with a couple GABF medals for his brews with Rock Bottom and later consulting for other brewing companies. When Brian decided to open his …

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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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