From a beer-making rookie to an award-winning home brewer to a full-time paid gig — Landon Jeffery has seen what a difference a decade can make.
“It never crossed my mind [when in his early 20s] to make beer at home," said the now 31-year-old Ogden resident. After seeing a friend’s beer-making kit, “the whole idea of it seemed really magical.”
He bought his own kit and a few how-to books and dived “headfirst” into his new hobby. His first beer, an IPA, turned out. The second — an oatmeal stout with chocolate malt — proved a disaster.