One morning last September, Jonathan Brown and Carl Roaches Jr. were busy brewing a batch of beer in Brown’s home garage in Pearland. Bags of grain lay on the floor. A large pink-and-green balloon reef took up space in a corner, left over from an Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority birthday party Brown’s wife had hosted.
Houston’s first Black-owned brewery is opening this year. It was a long road to get up and running.
