Fannin Brewing

It all began in 2002, when Tom bought a home on a beautiful mountainside in lovely Fannin County, and thought “This hillside would make a great vineyard.” 

He planted some grapes – all kinds of grapes – and waited. Five years, experiments with the deer repellent Buck-B-Gone, and a fence later, he had his first press. As he sat in his driveway at midnight de-stemming the crush by hand, he thought, “This is a lot of work.”  

While Tom was waiting for his grapes to grow, he started German Kino Plus, a cable

network targeted to Germans living in the United States. He travelled to Germany frequently to buy movies. He was wise enough to plan some of those trips in October, so he could spend his evenings in Munich’s biergartens.