So they didn’t give you a leather satchel and whip with your diploma? Treasure hunters are a very few-and-far-between breed. Definitely one of those things that when you get out of school you realized you chose a life path that isn’t everything you thought it would be in a lot of ways.

That and I watched a lot of Indiana Jones.ĭecided to go to college for classical studies, archaeology as a part of that, and minored in philosophy. So you knew it wouldn’t be dairy farming, so what was your dream job?Īs a kid I read a lot of books about archaeology and convinced myself that is what I was going to do for a living. I enjoyed the work, but I didn’t really want to do it the rest of my life. A lot of cows, lot of land, got started with field work right off the bat. Worked with raw materials a lot as a kid. What’s your story, how did you get into brewing beer?īeing raised on a dairy farm, I wasn’t any stranger to work by any means. I am really looking forward to exploring Austin, in a lot of ways. So, now that the list is getting more checks, what are you looking forward to? I keep getting emails from people here, but I am going to have a lot of visitors in Austin. It’s go time now, it’s everything I wanted it to be so far. First week I am starting to relax a bit, things are getting checked off the list, getting done. I wore my best farm work clothes today, and that was the extent of it.Ī move like this you get involved with the stress and trying to plan everything. Had rain every day for the past two weeks, slow going. Just got the planting done today, turned into a longer day than expected. Today I was out in the mud planting our hopyard all day here at Victory, and it took a little bit longer than expected, but it is nice too. Just getting ready to head down to Austin and get started putting together the brewhouse and starting the brew. Interview with Matt Couch, Lazarus' new Brewmaster.

So our man Austin sat down with our new brewmaster and asked him for an interview.

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