ROOSTERS BREWING - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Employee at Roosters Brewing Co
• Head Brewhouse Engineer

Colton Layton has been a long-lasting employee at Roosters Brewing Co. since 2006, working in nearly every position in the front house from busser and host, to server and bartender to even catering and management. It wasn't until the start of 2012 that Colton found his position in the brewing industry. After being mentored and trained by Roosters own Brew Master Steve Kirkland, Colton became the Head Brewer of our Ogden location. Since then, Colton has done nearly everything in the brewhouse from creating recipes, cellaring to running our both our botting machine at one point or another. Currently Colton works at our newest installment in Ogden, our Production Facility on B-Street as our Head Brewhouse Engineer. His responsibilities along with helping brew all the beers you all love and enjoy are keeping the brewhouse equipment up and running and running our Wild Goose Canning line.

Steve graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Food Technology and chose to apply his new knowledge to his favorite food: Beer. In 1988 he joined the staff at Sprecher Brewing Co. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a young microbrewery on the forefront of the burgeoning craft brewing movement. Steve worked for Sprecher for four years, left to find God, failed, and took a brewing position with Gray's Brewing Co., a startup brewery in Janesville, WI. Scarcely after a year with Gray's, Steve heeded the old American call to "head west, young man!" and settled in Ogden to help launch Roosters Brewing Company. After ten years at the 25th Street Roosters, Steve ventured south to brew at the second Roosters location in Layton before moving back to Ogden 13 years later to brew at the new B Street brewery.