Blind Butcher Brewing Company

Serendipitous...The pandemic of 2020 changed how we thought about our family farm here on 30 acres in Lyon County. We began to give greater consideration to sustainability and stewardship of our resources in land and buildings.

We ventured beyond crops and vegetable gardens and into livestock for the first time with a small cow/calf operation and the occasional hog. Like many farmers, we soon discovered that our local meat lockers were filling up quickly and that there would be no place to process our livestock. That being the case we invested in equipment and education, and learned how to process our own - like our grandparents did.

One thing led to another (as it often does here) and soon we also learned how to brew craft beer. The notion of ever getting a license to market our craft was remote -the paperwork and investment was daunting. We laughed about what we might name that new venture.