December 2013
| Business World Magazine | 147
U.S. a month earlier. It was the latter endeav-
or that drew the interest of Hovey, a native of
Syracuse, N.Y. who graduated from the Uni-
versity of Buffalo with an engineering degree
in 1984 and ultimately spent 18 years in the
semiconductor business before making the
jump to barley and hops. He would go on to
complete the Master Brewers Association of
the Americas’ Malting and Brewing Science
Course.
The company sprang from Hovey’s long-
germinating interest in brewing beers on a
small scale, and it got its name as a tribute
to his late brother, George Adelbert Hovey,
