Kevin started homebrewing in the late 1980s, making a few good beers but probably more that were not so good at first.  After taking a year or two off from brewing he started back up in 1992 with a few friends from work, and even started a mail order homebrew supply business call Big Butt Brewing.  OK so it was less a “business” than it was a way to get supplies at wholesale, but that was long ago.  For the next 10 years the “Big Butt Brewing” crew brewed 2 or 3 times per month in Kevin’s garage, and other than an occasional experiment gone wrong they produced some very nice ales that they shared with friends at an occasional big party.  Then in 2002 Kevin stopped brewing and just favored the multiple Fort Collins breweries and beer establishments for his craft beer enjoyment

In 2012 after 9 years of marriage to Cathy, Kevin saw a post on Facebook from an old college friend who’d built a really cool all-electric homebrewing setup.  Upon telling Cathy he was going to get back into homebrewing she said “Why don’t we open a brewery?”.  And the rest as they say is history!