Scott and Amy Kelley had been kicking around starting a brewery in Ennis for years but it wasn’t until the Fall of 2018 that it all came together due to a well timed phone call to their (now) head brewer, Dave McAdoo. One afternoon, Scott called Dave to gauge his interest in coming on board as head brewer if he were able to start a brewery. As fate would have it, that very day Dave had received a copy of How to Start your Own Brewery in the mail. Scott and Dave took that as a sign from the beer Gods and committed to making Burnt Tree a reality.