Two Monks Brewing Co. looks to mark 5th anniversary in Akron this year
Updated 5:30 AM;
AKRON, Ohio – Breweries keep popping up in neighborhoods, small towns and urban pockets throughout every cranny of Ohio. Some with fanfare, some with screaming social-media presence. And others, like Two Monks Brewing Co., settle in comfortably and quiet.
Steve Prough and Patrick Armstead – the business partners behind the Akron brewery - took a love of home brewing, considered locations, and landed in a residential south-side neighborhood. This year, Two Monks will mark its fifth anniversary.
“Well, we decided we were just going to hide from the public,” Prough joked.
Akron police hope the coming year will mean they can resolve as many as 20 rape and sexual assault cases that could otherwise be forgotten.
All it takes is some DNA and potential matches with family members that could lead to the identification of predators who ve so far remained anonymous.
The department last month announced it was awarded $150,000 to cover the cost of comparing DNA evidence from cold cases with DNA profiles in commercial databases maintained by services including Ancestry.com and 23andMe.
It was the third year the department s team received a grant, after it received a total of nearly $3 million over the last two years.