Elizabeth Anderson: Fat Pants BrewingOur featured speaker Feb. 4 was Elizabeth Anderson, who is part of the Eden Prairie Anderson family that opened Fat Pants Brewery – EP’s first craft-beer brewery – in November. Elizabeth might well be called the lager queen of Eden Prairie, one of the youngest brewery owners in the world. Officially she’s the operations manager of Fat Pants Brewery, but the job duties are many and varied. She incorporated the business in 2017 after her dad, Don Anderson, had been home-brewing for some time. Setting up the family business has meant overcoming one obstacle over another. They needed their congressman’s help, for example, to secure licensing during a government shutdown. But they are up and running in the former Panino Brothers restaurant building and on their way to having 24 taps and 18 unique beers, and being able to produce about 2,500 barrels of beer per year (which equates to more than 620,000, 16- ounce pints). |