Meet Our Team
We are honored to have the most knowledgeable and genuinely friendly staff within 1,600 miles!* Don’t take our word for it, check out our google reviews!
*1,600 miles is the original span of US Highway 16
Amanda McDonald
Full Time Gig: Taproom Manager at Take 16 Brewing Co.
Hobbies: biking, photography, house plants, thrifting for vintage treasures, traveling
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Thumbs Up, Pin High, Hayloft…depends on the day
Fun Fact: I marched in the Rose Bowl Parade in high school.
Jacki Johnson
Full Time Gig: Speech-language pathologist.
Hobbies: Reading, fishing, sewing, making soup almost daily.
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Luverne Lager
Fun Fact: I enjoy putting up wallpaper and painting, but I’m completely incapable of operating a paint roller.
Tim Gust
Full time gig: Managing Principal at NationSat
Hobbies: Travel, Exercising and Reading
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Kick the Bucket
Fun Fact: I ran 12 full marathons before my knees said "please stop this"
Brenda Johnson
Full Time Gig: Daycare provider.
Hobbies: Traveling, camping, biking, hiking, cooking, being with friends and family.
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Depends on the day. Love a good IPA, Thumbs Up and Kick the Bucket to name a few.
Fun Fact: I hitch-hiked from Cork Ireland to Alborg Denmark with only $2 to my name.
Christina Strassburg
Full Time Gig: Recreation department at the Luverne Veterans Home.
Hobbies: Movies, eating, hanging with my 2 dogs and traveling.
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Thumbs Up.
Fun Fact: I have been to Guatemala, Iceland and Aruba. I also go to Disney World/ Universal STudios twice a year.
Barry Shelton
Full Time Gig: Groundskeeper at Luverne Public Schools.
Hobbies: Family, meat processing and smoking, baseball, college football, deer hunting and visiting breweries.
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Any IPA
Fun Fact: I am the PA guy for the Luverne Redbirds Amateur Baseball team.
Zach Wermager
Full Time Gig: Stay at home dad.
Hobbies: Fishing, gardening, flipping houses.
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Shorty Shorts. Funny name, delicious beer.
Fun Fact: I can grow a hilariously awkward mustache.
Chelsie Wermager
Full Time Gig: Teacher
Hobbies: Traveling, dreaming of travel, shopping, sewing, exercise, baking.
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Home Run IPA
Fun Fact: I once held a job at a seed company where my sole purpose was counting individual kernels of corn for test plots.
Jennifer Radtke
Full Time Gig: Special education teacher at Luverne High School.
Hobbies: Playing with my grandbabies and my dog Fritz; going to my son’s sporting events, reading, and socializing anywhere with anyone.
Favorite Take 16 Beer: All of those with a little hop to it.
Fun Fact: I can still put my foot behind my head.
Madeline Jones
Full time gig: 1st grade teacher at Luverne Elementary School
Hobbies: playing with my puppy, lake days, binge watching Grey’s Anatomy
Favorite Take 16 Beverage: Rock River Root Beer
Fun Fact about yourself: I hate wearing sweatpants!
Carrie Overgaard
Full Time Gig: Church youth director (no judging ;) )
Hobbies: Home improvement projects, and racking up miles going to all of our kids activities.
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Coffee Kolsch
Fun Fact: I once walked 60 miles in 3 days.
Adam Geraets
Full Time Gig: Consultant at NationSat.
Hobbies: Basketball (coaching & playing); being dragged around town by my husky Roman; traveling abroad with my wife Ashley.
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Luverne Lager - it’s the happiest a beer has ever made me.
Fun Fact: I have never broken a bone.
Chris Nowazaki
Full Time Gig: Full time art teacher and coach at Luverne Public Schools.
Hobbies: Umm…. I have a few!
Favorite Take 16 Beer: First run of Stone Cutter by far, Barrel Dancer a close second!
Fun Fact: I graduated from high school in a castle in Germany.
Jadyn Anderson
Full Time Gig: Student at Arizona Sate studying architecture. (Read as: “I have no life.”)
Hobbies: Reading, hiking, driving very long distances in my car to explore new places.
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Ask me when I’m 21!
Fun Fact: I hiked the Grand Canyon rim to rim in one day and almost died.
Meegan Ross
Full Time Gig: Para at Luverne high school
Hobbies: Driving my boys to sporting events.
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Right now Musical Chairs
Fun Fact: When I was 19 I packed up two suitcases and “moved” to Hawaii. I made it a month.
Madison Crabtree
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Anika Gust
Full Time Gig: Just graduated college! Onto a gap year in Arizona to escape a MN winter and make money for grad school.
Hobbies: Playing guitar, being outside, winning cribbage against friends and family.
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Lowcal Lager
Fun Fact: I’ve hiked the 26 mile Inca trail to Machu Picchu in Peru!
Blaine Radtke
Full Time Gig: Adult Mental Health Social Worker
Hobbies: Sports, drinking beer
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Coffee Kolsch
Fun Fact: Miller Lite is my favorite beer
Kim Bush Von Tersch
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Christina Loosbrock
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James Jarvie
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Dan Serie
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Full Time Gig: Music Teacher
Hobbies: Reading, Playing Trumpet, Singing
Favorite Take 16 Beer: Adventure IPA
Fun Fact: I have travelled to Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, and Italy!
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