Josh Hare is the founder and president at Hops & Grain Brewing in Austin, Texas. He fell in love with artfully crafted beer and the fantastic community that supports it while living in Boulder, Colo. in the early 2000s. He moved to Austin in 2005 to pursue a career in triathlon and the running specialty retail industry, and eventually helped to open the city’s most successful running retail store. After searching for beer sponsors all over the state with no success, Hare decided to open his own brewery, focused on the highest quality products and marketing them to an active city loyal to locally produced goods. Since 2011, he has been overseeing the day to day operations of the brewery, from recipe and product development to quality management. Since day one, the mission at Hops & Grain has been to enhance the human experience through the medium that inspires them the most, the artful and deliberate expression of thoughtfully crafted beer.