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Kenneth D. Allen, D.C.
Brewmaster, President, CEO
The brewmaster of Anderson Valley Brewing Company's award-winning
ales
is Dr. Kenneth Allen. Dr. Allen, a chiropractor, was in private practice for
over twenty years. He is a former president of the California Chiropractic
Association, and recipient of the prestigious Doctor of the Year award from the
North Bay Chiropractic Association. He presided over a distinguished
chiropractic college until 1980 when he became an Anderson
Valley resident.
Ken purchased a commercial lot in downtown Boonville, for his chiropractic office. By a fortuitous twist of fate, he found himself the owner of one of the best water supplies in Anderson Valley. He wondered what to do with the abundance of pure water until he discovered that the unique make-up of the water lends itself to producing beers of excellent quality.
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Neil Atkins
Head Brewer
Call me Ishmael. Many years later as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. I had the story, bit by bit from various people, and , as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. Elmer Gantry was drunk. It was a pleasure to burn. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. You better not never tell nobody but God. In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the town, there were always together. Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. All this happened, more or less.
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Isidro Chavez
Assistant Brewer
"Chilo," as he is more commonly known, began with Anderson Valley Brewing on
October 28, 1991, working in the packaging department, on our then new-to-us 22
ounce bottling line. Within three months he was helping in the brewhouse,
assisting on early morning mash-ins and grain-outs, and shortly moved into the
brewhouse permanantly. In the intervening ten years, he has become an
essential member of the brewing staff.
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John Montgomery
Assistant Brewer
"Big John," Has been a local fan of our beer, since he moved to the valley in 1994. he began working for the brewery in 1998 as a cellarman, monitoring the progress of fermentation, then filtering and lagering the fermented beers. Formerly a locksmith, John worked here as a cellarman for the next five years, and was promoted to Assistant Brewer in May of 2003. Big John is living proof that when a man finds a beer that he loves, he should get a job at the brewery.
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