“Our company slogan is ‘Crafted for Community.’ The reason we came up with the name Cabin Boys Brewery was we built a log cabin out on Austin’s land in Catoosa about six years ago. It has been a great place for people to come and drink our beers and eat really good food and enjoy being with one another. In this day and age that we live in right now, people are more connected than we have ever been with technology, but at the same time, we are very disconnected, so we want to bring that connection back into the brewery,” Arnold said.

McIlroy is currently brewing for the McNellie’s group’s Elgin Park brewpub, 325 E. M.B. Brady St., with brewmaster Eric Marshall’s recipes.

It is a big step to start a brewery in Oklahoma, especially when you are just starting your career. But Arnold can see the writing on the wall.

“It came to a point where I made the decision. Should I do energy management and work in the office the rest of my life or do I want to open a brewery? Let’s do the brewery,” Arnold said.

“Oklahoma has the least amount of breweries per capita. I think we are 50th in the nation for the number of breweries per capita. We are also ranked very high for, I think third in the country, for volume growth for the years 2012-2014; that alone says a lot.”