About Us
serving Ottawa Kansas since 2019

Our Story
Dusty and Melody Gentry are the owners of Not Lost Brewing Company. Their brewing journey started by going to different beer festivals to learn the styles they liked. After learning about craft beer by attending various events and too many breweries to count, they decided they wanted to open a brewery of their own.
Dusty read various books and taught himself how to brew. While Melody came up with ideas for various "fun" beers. Brewing commenced in their basement and they took their beer to home brew events and competitions. While continuing home brewing they began the lengthy process of finding a space to rent for their brewery. Which surprisingly became a 2 year process to secure a space. Space was secured in the fall of 2018 and they opened on March of 2019.
Not Lost brews traditional beers as well as fun food inspired beer. The owners also love to travel, while this may seem irrelevant they are always asked where the name Not Lost came from. It's inspired by the quote "not all who wander are lost", due to their love of travel and even though their beer styles are different they "aren't lost." Dusty is the brewer and a welder full time. Melody runs all day to day operations and is currently a travel agent as well. They also still love travel when they can and come up with new a fun beers.

