Flat Mountain Brewhouse

​Garden City is a unique community bursting with diversity. A community that has learned that, if we want something, we have to make it ourselves. For years, the community has hoped for a local brewpub. There are blueprints for several downtown buildings to make a brewhouse work, but it has never came to fruition, until now. 

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In 2017, three families, John and Angelica Chappel, Carlos and Carrye Jane Mantilla, and Jorge and Carmen Guzman came together with the goal of opening Garden City’s first brewery. A few things were important to us. First, we wanted a place on Main Street to help spark a revival in downtown activity. Second, we wanted a place where everyone could feel welcome. And finally, we wanted to be creative with both the beer and the food menus. From the beginning, the six of us admitted that our expertise in beer came in consuming it rather than making it. So, we reached out to a local community college instructor who had brewed beer at his house for roughly 10 years. 2018 was spent mostly in the construction phase and in the winter of 2019 the team and began developing a food menu. 

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