We're joined by Mark Stuttrude, who is the founder and president of Summit Brewing.

Mark, would you, first of all, thank you for having us, but would you also explain to us the charitable component of this as it relates to Sierra Nevada?

Brewery's across the country are getting together to really provide financial support to all the folks that have lost their homes, everything up through the campfire in northern California.

So this is really a very important day for us to do this.

Right. Well, when did you found Summit?

Well, I founded the company in 1984, and we sold our first keg of beer in the fall of 1986, and we're in University Avenue, right?

Blocking a half west of the Dubliner pub.

The sign is still there. Do you own that building?

No, no, we rented it. And then it was a fellow that...

An amusement.

Oh, no, that's a different dude.

That's Todd Erickson.

We were in the building to the east.

Oh, okay.

And that's where Spiro's Mediterranean foods went in.

Okay, all right.

And that's the building.

You have a large campus now, what would we call this, Crosby Lake?

Yeah, Crosby Lake Business Park.

Right, off the street in St. Paul.

Yes.

Where you were the cutting edge of the craft brewing movement, don't you think you were among the cutting edge?

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