Hillsboro Brewing Company

About

Hi! For those of you who don't know us, we are Snapper and Kim Verbsky...yes, that is his name, and yes, it is on his birth certificate. Snapper is from Hillsboro and his family have been in Hillsboro for 5 generations. I am a transplant, but have been able to call Hillsboro my home for 22 years. We are raising our 3 children here and are grateful for them that this is the only place that they'll ever know as home. Snapper's dad, Joe, was a very skilled craftsman with an artist's talent. Snapper watched his dad turn his craft into a successful trim carpentry business that eventually led to Snap forgoing a college wrestling career and taking up a father and son partnership in the business. Snap has always had pride in his hometown and has been purchasing buildings as they became available and restoring them to their original glory. Such was the case with both, our original HBC Pub at 815 Water Avenue, and our current location at 206 East Madison Street. The goal was to offer something that wouldn't compete with other successful businesses in town and to create jobs. The idea of a pizzeria was born. That idea evolved to include a brewery too because Joe had a keen interest in making his own wine and beer. Joe had been working on one recipe for about a year and put the batch to brew when he told Snap, "well, I think this is it, I think I got it!" That was Tuesday, October 15, 2012. Thursday, October 17, 2012, we got the unbelievable news that Joe had died in a fatal car accident. Our world, as we knew it, had been turned upside down. The following Wednesday, Joe Beer was brewed and ready, so we raised a glass and took a drink.