City Acre Brewing: A Dream Realized

HOUSTON — The dream began in early 2009. My middle daughter, Meredith, and her future husband, Matt, drove us about 10 minutes north of downtown, up Hwy. 59 to look at a house they were negotiating to buy. It was a Victorian-style home with a pair of turrets and robin’s-egg blue horizontal stripes below a red roof. The house was visible from the freeway. I had noticed it for years on treks to Houston. The home, built in the early 1980s, was located on an acre of land and contained two very large metal buildings. The neighborhood is working middle class. This was where one day Matt — a mechanical...

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