When their farm was in decline, Elkhorn couple started Duesterbeck’s Brewing Co. `in the middle of nowhere`


When their farm was in decline, Elkhorn couple started Duesterbeck’s Brewing Co. `in the middle of nowhere`


As family farms drop from the Wisconsin landscape, Laura Johnson took a look at the farm where she grew up in Elkhorn.

The buildings on the 150-year-old farm were run down, no longer used. She had a vision for what the farm could offer. It wasn’t agriculture she saw as the future. It was a taproom.

Brewing beer has long been a hobby for her husband, Ben Johnson. He freely admits he spent several years in college at UW-Madison making not-so-great beer from kits.



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Ken Notes: GREAT STORY!

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