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- My name is Keith Lewis,
I'm the owner and founder and
president of Tupps Brewery.
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Tupps started about six years ago
in the lovely city of McKinney Texas,
but prior to that,
we actually were brewing beer
for four or five years in my garage.
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we've really tried to
make beer that we like.
We're not German, classic,
traditional beer guys,
we're American craft,
and that's kind of the roots
of why we did what we did.
We opened in McKinney in May of 2015.
We are packed, outgrowing
our current facility,
and looking for new opportunities
in the city of McKinney,
with a whole new facility
that will be opening up
in first quarter of 2022.
We looked at several cities
when we were in our
pursuit of a new location.
We just felt that home was McKinney.
I can't say enough great things
about the city of
McKinney's leadership team,
and how they supported us,
both from business development,
community development.
The new location will be
kind of a multi faceted,
we've talked about it
being a craft community.
We will be brewing beer,
we will also support other
local craft businesses.
The sole goal in the
beginning was to make beer
that people would like, and we did that.
Then we thought well we
could add to the environment
by having music, so we did that.
And then we had events out here,
charitable events, community events.
I guess what I'm most excited about really
is building another brewery,
I mean, I loved building this one,
it's probably three or four times
the size and the magnitude.
And we've got probably
the best historic downtown
in the state I think.
And then when you expand that downtown
a little bit further to
east where we'll be going,
it really just expands the cool roughness
and the cool culture I think
that McKinney has always had.
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What I think what people can expect
when it's all done is an environment
that really feels like home.
We're not a chain, we're not prefab,
real tough and rough and roachy
and real family environment.
If you say that McKinney
is unique by nature,
I think we put the exclamation
point at the end of it,
(laughs) we're pretty unique.
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People seem to love the liquid.
