New owners relaunch new and improved family-friendly brew pub

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By Jeff Morrow for Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business

For a young couple with two kids, John and Kelsey Plughoff found the dream place to run a business: a brewery on a farm in north Pasco.

The Pasco couple bought the 10-yearold Paper Street Brewing Company last April from Robby Burns. The pub sits on a farm at 241 Fanning Road, about 2.5 miles north of Interstate 182.

“For us, it reminded us of home in Yakima, sitting outside with a fire pit,” John said, “with all of our family and friends around.”

Kelsey agreed.

“To us, this is a little slice of heaven,” she said.

Which is why the last few weeks of February were a bit unsettling.

The Plughoffs had been told by attorneys they could use the LLC of the previous owner, enabling them to use that liquor license.

But that wasn’t correct.

“Basically, we had a misjudgment in the timeline from the lawyer,” John said. “So we had a hold put on the liquor license. We’ve worked with the Franklin County commissioners and the state.”

Everyone has been great, John said. It’s just taking a little extra time to get going again.

Paper Street closed Feb. 17, and the Plughoffs re-submitted all the necessary paperwork for a new liquor license.

John told the Journal that he was notified on March 2 that the liquor license was approved. The Plughoffs likely will be back up and running by the time this story is published.

“Once we get the license, we’re off to the races again,” he said.

Meanwhile, the break has allowed the Plughoffs to do some sprucing up.

“We’re giving the place a facelift by redecorating,” John said.

Taking over the business

The Plughoffs had been customers at Paper Street when Burns was the owner. They loved the place.

But Burns was looking to get out. He had moved the facilities from the Parkway in Richland to the farm in 2018, and he was ready to do something else, John said.

Plughoff has his own business as a fishing guide, Plughoff Outfitters, and he easily does 200 days a year of fishing.

But the place was too dear to the Plughoffs to let it die.

“We were told it was going to be sold or closed,” John said. “Basically it was going to go away.”

So John and Kelsey made an offer to buy it, and the place has been theirs to run since.

Burns’ parents, Max and Diana Burns, still own the farmland that Paper Street is on.

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