CowDog Brew Company is a passion project by RCN veteran Michael Hodgson 12 years in the making. Michael has been home brewing since 2011 with the advent of the Brew Vic homebrew club. After several deployments in his 14-year career he was told he’s being put to pasture due to his injuries, so he needed to decide what to do next after his retirement.

Michael’s wife was discussing with him what he wants to do, and the topic of craft brewing came up, after that our fate was sealed. This is also where our name came from. Our rescue dog Louis has the nickname of CowDog, so we decided that was also going to be our future.