The Four Bullets Story
Like most good things, Four Bullets Brewery didn’t start with a business plan—it started in a kitchen.
In the early 2000s, Jeff and Drew (our founders) began brewing together after Jeff’s wife, Theresa, bought him a homebrew kit for Christmas. Jeff needed a little help getting started, and Drew was more than happy to jump in. Drew had been homebrewing since the mid-1980s, mostly to satisfy his own tastes—specifically traditional English-style ales from his homeland.
Their very first batch together was about as simple as it gets: a basic can-extract kit. And honestly? The beer was good. But they knew they could do better.
So they did.
Before long, they moved into full-grain brewing and started getting more ambitious with the styles and recipes they were creating. As the beers improved, so did their curiosity—and eventually, their equipment. They designed and built their own brewing system, a scaled-down version of a commercial setup that allowed them to brew more consistently and push quality even further.
That was the turning point.
With better beer, better recipes, and years of brewing under their belts, the question became obvious: What if they took this to the next level?
What if they let the public decide whether this was something worth sharing beyond friends and family?
That idea eventually became Four Bullets Brewery—Richardson’s original craft brewery, founded in 2015 and still rooted in the same philosophy that guided those early kitchen brews: make beer we’re proud of, brew it with intention, and share it with people who appreciate it.
our name
The name of the brewery came one night while Jeff was playing poker and drinking one of the beers. Jeff has been a poker fan for many years and mostly Texas Hold em’ where the Ace is referred to as a bullet and he thought hey, what’s better than Four Aces….? So “Four Bullets” became the name for the brewery. Most of our beers names also come from a poker/casino theme.
At the start, we focused mostly on English ales and created Black Jack Brown which was our first specifically for the brewery. We then created Royal Flush Red and Two Pairs Pale which were the three beers we opened with. We later added What Are the Odds keeping just four taps. With the explosion of the craft beer scene, we realized we needed to branch out and satisfy the taste of the ever-growing craft beer drinker. We now make an array of beers to meet all tastes.