Green Feet Brewing
For Scott Petersen and Jen Reynard, who plan to open Green Feet Brewing in the 44th Street and Dodge Boulevard area, brewing has always been personal. On Monday, they were granted approval from the health department and hope to begin brewing this spring.
After working as a flight engineer on combat rescue helicopters, Petersen came off active duty in 1997 and was stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. He met Tucson native Reynard around 1999, and they started going to regular happy hours with friends.
They say beer was a big part of their courtship, and Peterson, then a homebrewer for about five years, began to think seriously about opening a brewery while in Afghanistan in 2012.
“I mean, there’s no beer over there so you might as well think about it,” Petersen says. “So when I got back I floated the idea to Jen, and I thought she was going to tell me I was crazy but she was on board immediately.”
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“I always joke and tell people it was the only way I could get my garage back,” says Reynard.
Now retired from the Air Force Reserve, Petersen still leans on his squadron to develop his recipes.
“My squadron mates are some great guinea pigs. Even though they’re getting free samples of beer, they’re very direct in what they like or don’t like, so I don’t feel like they only drink it because they’re my friends,” he says.
Opening with their three-barrel system will allow Green Feet to remain nimble and responsive to the feedback they get from their clientele.
“We have a good following with the military crowd, and that has helped us kind of tune in to a lot of styles that they’re really into, like a hefeweizen,” says Reynard. “Military people travel and so they’re into different things. I’d say we pay attention to what people are talking about.”
