Patrick is a proud native of the Virginia Appalachians, was born and raised in Roanoke, and has family ties to Wythe County that go back several generations. He has been an avid home fermentationist since 2009; and in 2017, he followed a passion he had developed for homebrewing to Durham, North Carolina to a career change into commercial brewing. While living in NC, he met and eventually married Jupiter, Florida-native, Leanne, who had “always wanted to marry a red-headed Virginian and live in the mountains.” When he isn’t making silly faces at our son Jack, Patrick likes playing disc golf and basketball, growing food and cooking with it, riding his bike, and quaffing a cold pint of crisp pilsner after a long day of smelling hot mash and wort cooking.
Clemson-grad Leanne has lived in the proper south since she moved to South Carolina for college in 2009. She has a master’s in horticulture and is currently launching a mail-order nursery off of Alvarado Rd. in Abingdon, specializing in woody trees and shrubs, specialty grafts, and other interesting perennials and annuals. When she isn’t tending to our young son Jack, Leanne enjoys disc golf, reading history books in the tub, and shooting the breeze at the bar over a pint of hoppy ale.