He owned the bars Columbia Room, The Passenger, Mockingbird Hill, Eat the Rich, and Southern Efficiency in Washington, D.C. Brown is a Distinguished Fellow at Catholic University's Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship.

He lived briefly in Charleston, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia before returning to the D.C. area to attend George Mason University.

[citation needed] Brown began bartending in 2000 at Rocky's,[2] a bar in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington D.C., before moving on to Chef Frank Ruta's Palena and becoming interested in wine.

[3] While at Komi, Brown was a founder of the underground cocktail club Hummingbird to Mars that operated out of Bourbon in Adams Morgan.

He worked alongside owners Ian and Eric Hilton to open the speakeasy The Gibson on the 14th Street Corridor in Washington, D.C., which served classic cocktails.

They formed their partnership in April 2010 and have since worked together on many projects, including a trio of bars named Mockingbird Hill, Eat the Rich, and Southern Efficiency - known as the DB3 - in the Shaw neighborhood.

Brown is involved with Share Our Strength and has served as mixology chair for their Taste of the Nation fundraising event where his bars participate every year to raise money and awareness with the goal of ending childhood hunger in America.