How Old? 4 years old
Owners: The brewery is a Family owned and operated Business by David and Shelley Stevens and Daughter Kat and Son-in-law Brent Thompson
Roots:
Production & Distribution:
Owners: The brewery is a Family owned and operated Business by David and Shelley Stevens and Daughter Kat and Son-in-law Brent Thompson
Roots:
- It’s a family owned business David & Shelley Stevens are Dallas natives, that have lived in the Design District for 30+years
- When David Stevens retired he had a passion for beer
- His daughter Kat had a history of working for big companies like Neiman Marcus and a midsized Business Consulting firm, she picked up home brewing when attending school at Cornell getting her MBA
- Brent Thompson is actually Navy Veteran and was in the Navy for 4 years
- Kat and Brent started out as home brewers together
- Est. in 2014, originally was set to be Reunion Brewing company but switched gears and opened in 2015
- Name
- Plays on the word T.A.P., Texas inspired ales with memorable names
- 15 employees, all with families and children 1 year and younger, truly a family brewery
- First Brewery to be built from the ground up in Dallas since the late 1800’s
- How did “Fire Ant Funeral” get it’s name…
Brent was tired of fire ants biting him when he mowed over them in the lawn when growing up. So one day he got a can of gasoline and matches from the garage and lit a fire ant mound on fire in the grass. When the fire grew a bit towards the house, his dad needless to say ran outside to see what the funeral by fire was about. - Don’t filter their beer, really take their time on their beer and don’t rush the process, so it’s clean.
Production & Distribution:
- 4,000 Barrels in 2017
- DFW area only, self-distribution