Most people are familiar with the male owners behind their favorite local breweries. Ryan Graham and Geoff Scott are the owners and face of Track 7, but they are the first to say that they would not be where they are today without the hard work and full support of their wives working alongside them. Ryan talked about Becca and Jeanna's value to the success of the brewery, stating that they “are every bit as integral to the successful operation of Track 7 as the brewing work that Geoff and (Ryan) do. They are amazing business owners that only happen to be women.” Ryan was also quick to point out that their wives do not work behind them, but alongside them. The women alongside Track 7 do more than compliment the business, they push the brewery forward, operationally and conceptually.

Jeanna and Becca are fully invested in the intricate details of brewery life and are at the brewery almost daily. They are immersed in all areas of the business from processing payroll, scheduling food trucks, handling donation requests, managing the taproom, updating social media, working with their graphic designer on bottles and merchandise decisions, managing employees and doing all this and more before school pick up time for Jeanna or relieving the nanny for Becca. But don’t think that once they leave the brewery they are done for the day. Both are answering emails and phone calls throughout the week and weekend, and even during 2am feeding times when Becca is up with her twins. In the hours leading up to this interview, I personally was in the trenches of mommy-land, wiping sticky hands and faces, and on my hands and knees cleaning scrambled eggs off the floor before heading off for this interview. It’s stressful at times balancing two drastically different worlds, however I have seen Becca, Jeanna and many other women with one foot firmly planted in the brewery life, and the other in the home and family life. And with these two women in particular, neither place would fully function without them. It’s not easy to balance at times, but we want both and are willing to make sacrifices to make them both thrive.

The lives of these Track 7 couples are drastically different than they were a few short years ago when Track 7 Brewing Company was just a pipe dream, conceived by two home brewing friends as they shared with their wives their vision of opening a taproom. Ryan and Geoff met in college at UC Davis. Ryan was studying Political Science and Geoff was studying Managerial Economics. They both shared a great friendship and an immeasurable passion for home brewing. Becca thinks back to 2009 when the guys first mentioned wanting to open a brewery and laughed as she remembers being a fan of the idea because it would mean they would store their ever-growing amount of brewing equipment and kegs of beer at this imaginary brewery instead of in multiple rooms throughout their house. Jeanna liked the idea too, but pictured “a sleepy little taproom,” happening 5 or 10 years down the road when her kids were a bit older. Ryan and Geoff started moving forward quickly after they got the go-ahead from Jeanna and Becca and soon they were buying out retirement plans to scrape together the money to buy the necessary equipment and building space for their taproom. And Track 7 Brewing Company was born!