Last summer, Joe Garcia, a marketer, and Bryan and Shannon Miles, co-CEOs of a virtual assistant company, started talking about opening a brewery. The longtime friends love everything about them: the friendly business model, the sense of fellowship of the space and, of course, the beer. The obvious next question was where to put it.

The answer soon became just as obvious.

“This should be in the community that we all live and work and raise our kids,” Garcia said.

A year later, the trio is closer than ever to seeing their vision manifested with NoFo Brew Co., a brewery slated to open in north Forsyth County in late summer.

The 6,000-square-foot brewery will be open Wednesday through Sunday and serve a variety of beers — IPAs, lagers, sours, goses, pale ales, stouts, porters and more — in a family- and dog-friendly environment at 6150 Georgia Hwy. 400.

“We’re trying to create something … where people can’t wait to go back and they can’t wait to tell their friends about it and make it a part of their daily lives,” Shannon said.