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It’s also a challenge to package, brand, and create TTB-approved labels for what may end up being a relatively small amount of beer. With so many ambitious brewing projects in various stages of production, however, Healey admits that it can be a challenge to keep up with it all and see every project through to fruition. That spirit of independent entrepreneurship remains a strong driver for the brothers, who’ve since helped grow the Krebs brewery into a four-vessel, 50-barrel brewhouse and recently put together the two-vessel, 10-barrel brewhouse in Tulsa without the assistance of outside investors or loans. They successfully raised $23,698 in early 2013 with help from 268 backers. The enthusiastic reception to their beers inspired the brothers to launch a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to put together their own brewhouse. “That helped us to get our beer into a lot of places pretty quickly and gain some early recognition.”

“I’d seen the success that Jolly Pumpkin and Saint Somewhere had had working through the Shelton Brothers to sell small amounts of beer throughout the country, and they were willing to take our brand on,” Healey says. A partnership with Shelton Brothers distributors helped put Prairie’s beers on the map and onto shelves around the country. and Colin concentrating on marketing and label art. Prairie Artisan Ales launched in 2012 with Chase gypsy brewing at Choc Beer Co. “It’s something we’ve never used in a label, but it made me know that he got where I was coming from,” Healey says. Chase awoke the next morning and found a “funny little drawing” lying on his kitchen table of two cartoon prairie dogs walking arm-in-arm. That same day, Healey floated an idea past his brother, Colin Healey, about creating artwork for the project. in Krebs, and asked if he could brew on his equipment. Healey, who started homebrewing in college and worked as head brewer at Coop AleWorks after graduating, approached his friend Zach Prichard, owner of Choc Beer Co.

Prairie’s roots lie in a germ of an idea planted at a local beer festival. “I don’t want to lose sight of what’s going on with the day-to-day, but I’m realizing that, as the company grows, the most important thing I can do is to it in the right direction.” “Maybe it’s a little easier for a brewery that focuses on a core lineup, but for a guy like me, who has a lot of ideas and wants to try a lot of stuff, it’s difficult to make sure we’re doing what we need to be doing at the larger facility while still creating an identity for our new place. “It’s hard to more or less have two breweries and develop them in such a way that each stands on its own but both are part of the same bigger vision,” he says. As we talk, it becomes apparent that he’s an inspired and ambitious brewer who is often moving in at least two directions at once. Healey is making the nearly two-hour drive between the two breweries-a trip he makes at least once a week-when he calls for our interview. Meanwhile, at Prairie’s hometown facility in Tulsa, Brewmaster and Cofounder Chase Healey is testing the boundaries with inventive sours, wild ales, and other funky barrel-aged projects. On one end of the brewing spectrum, Prairie produces highly regarded, cleanly brewed beers packed with flavor and personality-including Bomb!, an Imperial stout aged on espresso beans, cacao nibs, vanilla beans, and chile peppers-at a production brewery in Krebs, Oklahoma. For a brewery located square in the American heartland, “in the middle” is a phrase that doesn’t apply to Prairie Artisan Ales.