To the brewery rooted in community culture and space city, let’s raise a glass to a great addition to the EaDo brewery and pub scene. That means the space will be open during the day and suitable for everything from a quick pint (or nitro coffee brew) to after work meetups and weekend hangouts. Though the co-owners take their beer brewing seriously, they want the experience for customers to be one of fun exploration. Rotating taps will showcase a cast of beers ranging from hop-forward Belgian-inspired saisons to wild and sour ales made with Brett yeast, courtesy of oversized oak barrels called foeders.
The modern, light-filled taproom was designed to encourage interest in the brewing process, as prominently displayed Brite brewing tanks and large windows offer customers an up-close view of brewing in action. The hard work of transforming the bare-bones space at 2012 Dallas Street into a fully operational brewery is now complete, to the benefit of the neighborhood and to the city’s craft beer enthusiasts. Many brewing experiments and a decade later, the quartet is embarking on an entirely different kind of teamwork as brewery proprietors. Owners and co-founders Michael Duckworth, Tom Ahlstrom, Ben Stahl and David Lantz originally connected as NASA interns.
What once started as a passion for making beer among friends is now EaDo’s newest brewery, the celestial-mechanically named True Anomaly Brewing. Making beer isn’t quite rocket science, but if anyone can use observation and experimentation to make a good thing great, it’s current and former NASA employees.