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Opening a brewing company is just the logical next step for avid homebrewers Jay and Shanon Waldner of Keystone and their partner, Robert Verry.

Rapid City’s ever-growing microbrewery scene will add yet another player when their Zymurcracy Beer Co. opens later this month on Rapid City’s southside at 4624 Creek Drive, Suite 6.

Why the name Zymurcracy?

“We get that a lot,” Shanon said Friday in a telephone interview.

Zymurgy, pronounced Zy (rhymes with sky) Mur Gee (as in gee-whiz) is the science of fermentation, Shanon explained

A “zymurcracy,” then, is a community of people who love the science of fermentation, they say.

The Waldners have been avid homebrewers for more than 12 years and set the goal of opening their own microbrewery back in 2009, before Jay finished a 28-year career in the Air Force.

They returned to Rapid City in 2011 intent on opening a brewery here.

“It’s taken us a little while for sure,” she said. “We have been working at it.”