What happens when you mash up a certified organic farm with a craft microbrewery and serve up small-batch saisons alongside emu meatloaf on a screened-in patio in rural Arkansas? The answer to that question: Prestonrose Farm and Brewing Co. in Paris (Logan County). Incidentally, the answer remains the same when you ask what might happen if you mashed up the left- and right-brained tendencies of Liz Preston, who started out her professional life as a scientist in Santa Cruz, California, and continues it as the mastermind behind Prestonrose’s meticulously crafted beer list.

“My brain’s about split down the middle,” Preston told us. “In high school, I wanted to be an artist or a designer, and then got into science and it kinda went in a different direction. So science and art are my two pl

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