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Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce www.greatfallschamber.org
Jeremiah Johnson Brewing Company was founded with big dreams
and bigger tenacity in 2018 by Jeremiah and Katherine Johnson. The
couple initially launched the aptly named beer brand with a 5-beer lineup
highlighted by the flagship Mountain Man Scotch Ale and a core focus
on growing a distribution footprint beyond the border of Montana. This
was un-conventional start-up strategy in the craft brewing business as
almost all craft brewers start with a small tap room to build up demand
before trying their hands at expanded distribution. Jeremiah and
Katherine took a significant, yet, calculated risk that they could go after
expanded distribution right out of the gate with their purchase of the
brewery assets they acquired in 2018.
Jeremiah and Katherine have called Great Falls home since 2010,
since their move back from San Diego. Katherine was born and raised
here in Great Falls and attended Great Falls High, and Jeremiah was
born and raised in the Flathead Valley and graduated from Flathead
High School and Montana State University. Beyond the fact that Great
Falls is where they now reside, Jeremiah and Katherine agree that Great
Falls has tremendous assets to sustain a successful production brewing
operation. Specifically, access to the world's best barley malt, an
accessible workforce, and a reasonable cost of living are driving factors.
Jeremiah and Katherine attest their biggest success has been their
ability to recruit, develop and retain great employees as well as their
ability to seek out and find growth opportunities. "We truly wake up daily
and believe we can make it happen – we keep the mindset that it's a
land of big opportunity and we are capable of anything we put our minds
to. We have aimed to be a no-nonsense, classic craft brewery. Within
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