Josh: Well, this incarnation of the idea has been floating around in my brain for probably five or six years. Īaron: Yeah, that's pretty nice feeling leaving the car in the garage for the day.Īaron: Yeah, how did the brewery come about? And then if we don't have to go anywhere, it's awesome. I can get up in the morning, walk across the yard to the barn and get to work in the brewery or out in the field or whatever. Well, sort of joke, that a really great day is a day where we don't have to leave the property. When you come home you don't wanna go anywhere. Yeah, we love it out here, it's hard to leave here. There's fruit and gardens and everything around you that we get to then take and use and put into our beers, which is pretty amazing to be able to use what we have here to do that. I grew up on property like this and so it was always my dream to hopefully end up back on property like this where you get to work together as a family. We all have different roles and we all help each other out with harvesting and brewing, and selling and talking to people, and all of the necessary components of running a business.Īaron: Monica, what's it like being out on the farm all the time and having this out here? And our son kind of lives in between the two houses, and we all work together on the brewery. My folks lived in the farmhouse, Monica and I live in one of the barns in an apartment that we built. But the brewery itself is in our barn, it's a 100 year-old barn, family-owned, operated. It's just 5 acres, which is honestly plenty for growing the things that we're growing for brewing. Josh: We're on the farm that I grew up on just east of Blaine, Washington. So I'm not really sure, yeah.Īaron: And this brewery's interesting because it's on a farm. I think it's a maiden name somewhere before that, but looking at genealogy, I couldn't see where it fit in past my grandfather where it came from. But just because it's family-owned and operated, we thought that Atwood was a good family name for it.Īaron: And where does that middle name come from in the family? Ale Smith was already taken, so that was not available to us. And when we were talking about names, Atwood Ales sounded like a more interesting family, family-owned brewery name than Smith Ales or. Josh: Atwood is my middle name, it's my dad's middle name, it was my grandfather's middle name. Monica: I'm Monica and I'm wife, assistant, and sales and director of marketing.Īaron: And where does that name come from? Josh: Team, I'm Josh, I am co-owner and head brewer/janitor.
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