For John and Sarah McNeil, the thought of one day starting and owning their own brewery had, for a long time, been just a dream the couple would talk about from time to time. The dream recently became a reality, as the husband-and-wife team will soon open Odd Alewives Farm Brewery on their 22-acre property at 99 Old Route 1 in Waldoboro. John McNeil got his start in brewing in the early 1990s, when a group of friends invited him to join them working at a brewery. “I told them I didn’t know anything about brewing, but they said it was fine, they were just going to make me scrub and clean everything,” John McNeil said.