Ep. 104 - Layoff to Brewery: Dan Clous's Journey to Natural State Beer Company
You can learn a lot about a place by what it drinks and how it builds community around it. We sit down with Dan Clous, co-founder of Natural State Beer Company in Bentonville, to trace the unlikely path from a vendor career to homebrewing in a basement to opening a brewery right off the trails at Village on the Creeks. Dan breaks down why Arkansas is “The Natural State,” why their taproom is built around a “brew with a view,” and why they intentionally bet on lagers when so much of craft beer chases IPAs.
Then we taste. We run a rating segment and work through a flight that hits multiple…
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