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the frankfort station | March 15, 2018 | 3<br />
Brothers John Newton (left) and Mark Newton co-founded Woggly Square Brewing, a<br />
venture named after a saying created by John Newton's autistic son Matt. PHOTOS SUBMITTED<br />
Brewing beer and doing good<br />
Woggly Square<br />
Brewing raises<br />
funds, awareness for<br />
LWSRA and autism<br />
Amanda Stoll, Assistant Editor<br />
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The mark of a good beer is<br />
obviously the taste, but what<br />
about for a beer that does<br />
good as well?<br />
Brothers John and Mark<br />
Newton fell in love with<br />
brewing after diving in headfirst<br />
to home brewing. They<br />
started with a few extract<br />
brewing kits and quickly<br />
moved on to more advanced<br />
full-grain brewing.<br />
“Since then we’ve been<br />
brewing pretty prolifically,<br />
I can say that for sure. Almost<br />
every weekend at first<br />
we were brewing,” said John<br />
Newton, who said they made<br />
“a lot of good ones and some<br />
stinkers.”<br />
Making beer, as it turns<br />
out, is as much of a learning<br />
process as any, but they<br />
didn’t give up and started to<br />
get a lot of good feedback<br />
from their taste testers.<br />
“Then we decided one Saturday<br />
to try to make our own<br />
(Left to right) John, Mark and Scott Newton pose with beer<br />
bottles they went on to sell as a fundraiser for LWSRA.<br />
recipe. We played around and<br />
looked at other recipes and<br />
came up with something we<br />
called Simcoe Kid, which is<br />
a single-hop IPA with mosaic<br />
[hops],” said Mark Newton.<br />
“ ... That ended up so good<br />
and we had such a good time<br />
that we’ve just been doing<br />
our own recipes ever since.”<br />
They entered a few contests,<br />
not expecting much since they<br />
were still so new to brewing,<br />
but surprised themselves by<br />
winning a few homebrew<br />
awards along the way.<br />
“We just started dreaming<br />
about what it would be like<br />
to do this for a living,” said<br />
Mark Newton.<br />
Most homebrewers never<br />
brew outside of the confines<br />
of their kitchens or garages,<br />
but the Newtons teamed<br />
up with their friends at 350<br />
Brewing Company in Tinley<br />
Park and brought their love<br />
of craft brews to a new level.<br />
The name Woggly Square<br />
comes from a saying that<br />
John Newton’s 12-year-old<br />
autistic son Matt has. Though<br />
they aren’t sure what it actually<br />
means, it means something<br />
to them.<br />
It’s a reminder of the challenges<br />
people with autism<br />
face and the inspiration behind<br />
their brewing company,<br />
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