Formerly owned by Pyramid Breweries, Inc., it was sold in 2007 to Adventure Funds of Portland, Oregon, which ran the company under the Kemper Co.
Thomas Kemper Sodas were handcrafted and made with honey (although cane sugar was the primary sweetener), Madagascar vanilla, and other flavors.
The people involved had developed their brewing into an art and, as is standard with brewers, wanted to share it with the world.
Since 1989, the Thomas Kemper Brewing Company, one of the Northwest's first Microbreweries, held an annual Oktoberfest celebration at their brewery.
Starting out as a small event, the Thomas Kemper Oktoberfest soon was adding thousands of extra people to the population of Poulsbo, WA each autumn.
With very little advertising or marketing dollars, the young company relies on a "grassroots" campaign to get the word on its sodas out to consumers.
Washington's Hart Brewery buys Thomas Kemper and one of the craft beer industry's first mergers takes place.