About To Tear It Up: Torn Label Brewing

You know the feeling when you put in years of hard work, effort and toil and it finally pays off? Studying, learning, internships. You’re waiting for the call and it finally comes.

Travis Moore received two such calls within days of each other. Travis had just finished his law degree and had been waiting to hear back from the firm he interned with. They were offering the job. The other call came from a friend, Chad Troutwine, who was putting together a team that would become Torn Label Brewing. Chad wanted the creativity and craft Travis had shown in years of home brewing. Both law and beer were obvious passions. Which would you choose?

Torn Label Brewing

Way back in August, I walked to the back of the Studio Inc warehouse and found two sweaty men ready to talk beer with me. Rafi Chaundry and Travis Moore returned to Kansas City to start Torn Label Brewing, and on that late-summer day, they were still working on the 15-barrel brewhouse.

Both men grew up in Johnson County and s

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