Backstory Brewery

Dr. Robert LeningtonFounder & Owner

Robert’s journey to a brewery began in college at Texas Tech University. There, he worked in the Biochemistry department as a lab tech for Dr. Guigen Li where he learned sterile techniques and autocatalytic organic chemistry. Robert was running the lab in the biochemistry department by the time he graduated (with Honors). He then attended UT Houston for Medical School, and he completed his Surgical Residency in Orlando, Florida. Robert remembers the first time that he tasted a craft beer and it changed everything for him. He was intrigued by the precision of the process that could create vastly different brews with fairly similar base ingredients. Soon after that, Robert began homebrewing and was known to share his homebrews at local events and gatherings. Robert has been involved in the local community since settling in Sulphur Springs and opening his medical practice. After one local event where Robert shared his homebrew, he was approached about starting a brewery in Sulphur Springs, and the rest is history.

BackStory Brewery was created on the idea that if people will listen to each other, for the time it takes to have a beer together, we will find that we agree more than we disagree.