Tommy Evans is the founder of Silly Yak Beer Company and started Two Story Chimney Ciderworks in 2019 with his son who plays lacrosse with our brewmaster Ryan Hill’s boys. He previously worked at other breweries and was impressed with the beers Ryan was serving from his homemade bar on his homebrew setup. That started the two of them joking about opening a brewery and a few years later Silly Yak Beer started to take form.
There was already a gluten-free facility built for Two Story Chimney Ciderworks, so adding a dedicated gluten-free brewery was an easy next step. We partner with the cidery to share both production space and the tasting room. We grow our own hops and our own corn; the other ingredients we get from Grouse Malt House which is a gluten-free malt house in Colorado. Our brewmaster has developed over a dozen recipes for different styles of beer that have been meticulously converted to blends of GF ingredients.
