StumpTown.com is a brewery and restaurant in Guerneville, California
Title
Stumptown Brewery
Description
Brian and I started talking about this project about five years ago. For the most part, this talk was over a few beers and occasionally under the table. Brian was a stock broker and an avid home brewer, I was back in school to become a programmer. It was almost too obvious: our vocations were as brewers ('hic).
At the beginning of 1996, I returned from Australia and was ready to take my place as the programmer that slew microsoft (after making up for lost time ... at the taps). It was not to be. At about the same time, Brian's company offered him a choice: a healthy severance; or a transfer to purgatory. That left us both with opportunity.
The first thing we had to do was research. Brian had been keeping his finger on the pulse for some time already, but now we had to get serious: really serious. Brian got hold of a few books on the microbrew industry (from a friend). For additional information, whether we wanted it or not, we'd hit as many brew-pubs as we could and ask - while "tasting" ... this seemed only fair. After some investigation, and investment, we hit on a plan.
