About Driftwood
Driftwood Brewing Company was founded in the spring of 2008 by two very passionate and experienced brewers, Jason Meyer and Kevin Hearsum. They wanted to make and sell the kind of beer they liked best… beer that is fresh, brewed in the tradition of classic world styles but with the finest local ingredients. To develop the sales and marketing of the new brewery, Gary Lindsay joined the team in August bringing with him years of successfully promoting craft beer in the local market. With the depth of experience in the partnership, Driftwood is able to brew with an adventurous spirit to reflect the tastes of the many who are seeking to experience bold new flavors and rediscover some more familiar styles. It is beer for everyone to enjoy!
Brewery Construction in Images
It took us three and a half months to turn an empty industrial space into Driftwood Brewing Company. Kevin dutifully recorded the chaos in pictures and video; check it out:
Here's Jason wandering the brewery-to-be.
One of the first orders of business was to knock down a 20 foot high wall that was six sheets of drywall thick! The snowiness of the photo is because of the copious amount of dust we created.
This is what remained of the wall after a grueling day of hammering and sawing.
Here’s a short video of the last moments of wall-bashing…sorry about the quality:
Once we’d cleaned up the space we were ready for the arrival of the tanks! We bought our system third-hand from a brewery in West Yellowstone, Montana. Getting the tanks off the trucks and into the building was one of the most stressful days of our entire lives!
Needless to say there were a few tense moments.
Brewing is not for the claustrophobic.
Standing up the first tank, easy does it...
Man that felt good.
Soon a container of kegs arrived...
Then we had to paint them, all 640 of them.