Background Glenn Brady’s home-brewing efforts resulted in the creation of Silver Gulch Brewing in 1998. Brady opened the brewery in the small mining community of Fox, Alaska, located about 10 miles north of Fairbanks. The building, the former Fox Roadhouse, …
Background Carey Fristoe, Jake Hovenden and Stephanie Haskins opened Black Spruce Brewing Company in 2018 in Fairbanks, Alaska. Jake and Carey were childhood friends growing up in Fairbanks Alaska. Both left Alaska to attend school at University of Oregon. Carey …
Background Three partners, Sassan Mossanen, Mike Lindgren and Boe Barnett opened Denali Brewing Company in the summer of 2009. At the beginning, they were brewing on an 8.5-barrel system inside Twisted Creek Restaurant. Because they could not keep up with demand, in …
Background Three friends Michael Oxton, Mike O’Mara, and Rob Burns began home brewing in a Somerville, MA kitchen in 2007. They called themselves “Night Shift Brewing” – desk workers by day, home brewers by night. In 2010, the trio began …
Background Gene and Sandy Minden opened Seward Brewing Company in 2012. Glacier Brewhouse Brewer Kevin Burton, now with Matanuska Brewing Company (see review) was instrumental in getting Seward Brewing up and going. Erik Slater and Hillary Bean bought the Seward …
Background – 49th State Brewing Healy Jason Motyka, 26 years old at the time and a lifelong Alaskan purchased the Salmon Bake in Denali Park in 2005. Motyka had turned the restaurant into a popular spot when David McCarthy, while on …
Background Grand Avenue Brewing Company opened in Phoenix in May 2019. John Coll a practicing real estate lawyer purchased the 1947 warehouse in 2010. It was there he began brewing as a side project. After nine years, Coll decided to …
Background- Garage Brewing Co. Lou Kashmere opened Garage Brewing Co. in 2013. The brewery space is in what was a garage at the end of Old Town Temecula, hence the name. The garage happens to be next to the Shell gas station Lou owns. …
Background – Aftershock Brewing Co. Marvin Nigh, Brewmaster/Owner has been brewing for more than 25 years. Nigh turned his brewing hobby into a full-fledged business and Aftershock Brewing Co. became a reality in 2009. His beers caught on and as a …
Background – 8 Bit Brewing Company Owners and brothers Chris and Jeff Keyson and co-owner Susan Arnold, a video game designer in Santa Monica and sister to Chris’s wife Sarah opended the doors to 8 Bit Brewing Company in late 2016. The …
