Ben and Laura Johnson started Duesterbeck’s Brewing Company to save their multi-generational family farm. Their beer was just promoted from the farm to American Family Field.
Their hefeweizen ale, Bees Be Crazy, is now available during all Milwaukee Brewers home games.
“We were just floored,” Laura Johnson said. “What do you even say? We’re just a farm, you know.”
The Johnsons started Duesterbeck’s on their more than 150-year-old farm on County Road O near Elkhorn in late 2019. They came up with the idea after Laura promised her late father, Dennis Duesterbeck, to keep the farm in the family.
Watch: Couple behind farmhouse brewery near Elkhorn elated after their beer is put on tap at Brewers games
Couple behind farmhouse brewery near Elkhorn elated after their beer is put on tap at Brewers games
“He told me to keep it going and do not sell the farm,” Laura Johnson said…