President: Bernie Duenwald                             Brewmaster: Graydon Brown

Bernie grew up in Eastern Washington’s wheat and barley fields. He went to grade school in Edwall and high school in Reardan. He left home for an Ivy League education at Dartmouth. Bernie finished a geology degree at Dartmouth and returned to the area, leased land and started growing his own wheat and malting barley. He farmed for the next 15 years, eventually serving as a charter commissioner on the Washington Barley Commission. In 1990, he went to work for Great Western Malting Co. in Vancouver, Wash., selling brewing malts to beer companies all over the world. The malting company sent their salesman to the Siebel Institute brewing school so he could better understand the process and needs of his customers. Here is where Bernie and Graydon met. Bernie would work for the malting company until 2001, when he landed a new job at the U.S. Grains Council in Washington, D.C. In 2005, Bernie and his wife Cindy moved back to Reardan, WA and Golden Hills Brewing Co. was about to begin. Graydon grew up in California and went to school amid the green hills of the central coast, earning his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He worked for Texas Instruments and Watkins-Johnson as an engineer before brewing school Graydon began working for breweries across the U.S. – including Anheuser-Busch and Anderson Valley Brewing in California. He consulted with breweries trying to troubleshoot sanitation and brewing problems and helped start a brewery in Thailand. His buddy Bernie helped him out by air freighting 2,000 pounds of malting barley to help him get started.