Our Story

Barry is a White Sulphur Springs native and obtained his Civil Engineering degree from Montana State University in 1981. Chris hails from Sheridan, Wyoming and began working in the banking industry in 1988. After 32 years, she retired in 2019 but continues to do someconsulting. They met while both working for Peter Kiewit’s Decker Coal Company just outside of Sheridan, Barry as a senior engineer and Chris as the payroll clerk. After what Chris describes as a painfully long courting period (5 years), they were married in 1988 and began ranching and farming near Ringling, Montana. After selling the ranch, they moved into White Sulphur Springs and continued to raise their two children Hank and Molly.

With Hank and Molly soon to start out on their own, they found themselves looking for something to fill the pending emptiness. Enter the basset hounds. With really no good reason to get a basset hound other than Hank wanting one, they got Stanley when Hank graduated from high school in 2009 and Leroy followed when Molly graduated in 2012. Enter the beer. (Okay, beer came well before the bassets, but the idea of doing more than just drinking it came after.) In 2014 Barry began experimenting, to the delight of family and friends, who very much enjoyed the brews. One thing led to another and 2 Basset Brewery opened their doors on February 26, 2016.