Bobby has become a legendary local homebrewer and has been active in the local homebrewing club for nearly twenty years, creating many admittedly crazy but delicious recipes. His self-fabricated mobile 12-volt brewing system has been busy ever since, at home and on the go. Bob won several medals with extract kits but something was lacking… so he naturally progressed to brewing with all-grain recipes in 2007, and brewed up a very good Scotch Ale. Then came extract beer kits looking for improved beer quality, better flavor. He enjoyed making beer with the kit, but wasn’t satisfied. Bob has homebrewed since 1995, when he received a Mr. Brett is an avid craft beer enthusiast and will likely help behind the bar at Friendship Brewing. Both, not surprisingly, enjoy craft beer. Griff is excited to continue to learn from some of the greatest talent in the brewing industry and brew some of his own recipes at Friendship Brewing Company.īobby “Dr.” Love was born in Poplar Bluff, and grew up in Fenton and Ballwin. Griff started brewing in the same year and soon was taking some solid advice from Bobby Love, Bob Brandt and Kent Critchell. With that, came a desire to learn to brew. This sparked a whole new interest in beer. Sometime in 2012, Griff had a 4 Hands Cast Iron Oatmeal Brown. Some of the “craft beers” at the time included Anchor Steam, Sam Adams and Shiner. Griff started enjoying mostly imports and began writing about them in a logbook. Griff’s first experience with non-mainstream, domestic beer came when a small establishment in Houston opened in 1985 called “The Ginger Man Pub.” The huge selection of taps and bottles was unlike anything at the time. Griff worked with his father to open many bars. His father owned more than 40 different restaurants, bars, night clubs and icehouses. Mike grew up in the club and restaurant business. Living in Crystal Beach, TX in the summers and in Houston and Galveston in the Spring, Fall and Winters. Griff was born in Texas and grew up in the Houston/Galveston area. Be sure to take time to relax, have a few of your favorite beers, and hang out with Friends, AND find your passion -we’ve found ours. In September of 2019, David bought out Brian’s remaining business partner and we began the journey of growth and innovation in beer with what we insiders sometimes call Friendship 2.0. Charles county, many great Friendships were established, including those with Friendship’s brewers and Friendship’s founder Brian Nolan. Becoming involved in the homebrewing scene in St. The second phase of David’s epiphany was sparked when he learned about making beer at home and began selling beer and winemaking supplies at his hardware store. After making a career change and opening a hardware store, local homebrewers began coming to the store in search of parts for their homebrew setups. Over the next several weeks his love for the flavor varieties and complexities of fine craft beer was ignited. Then, when attending a Christmas party while working in construction management, David placed a business card into a drawing for a gift basket of craft beer at Growlers Pub. Notwithstanding his college years of drinking beer (the yellow fizzy stuff) his passion remained dormant for many years. Perhaps it should have been obvious with the surname of Brewer that David was destined to be involved in the beer industry.
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