Archive for December 2009
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Local art awesomeness
Two days ago, I got a great but unexpected voicemail from Durham artist Libby Lynn. Turns out we have a mutual friend, Candice (check out Candice’s esty site here). Libby had a piece of art that she wanted to donate, and Candice recommended that she give it to Fullsteam. Now this isn’t any ordinary work [...]
Two local food artisans use Fullsteam
Fullsteam isn’t selling beer yet…we’re just brewing test batches and giving it all away. Part of this mission it away includes supporting local farm-to-fork artisans. This winter, we provided a few Fullsteam growlers to two Awesome Women of the Triangle (AWOTT?): Phoebe Lawless of Scratch Artisan Baking and April McGregor of Farmer’s Daughter. WHO Phoebe [...]
Brewing the persimmon beer (First Frost, part 3)
Fullsteam’s persimmon beer, First Frost Part 1: Introduction and research Part 2: Harvest Part 3: Brewing (today’s write-up) Part 4: Bottling (later this week) The first two blog entries on persimmon discuss our fascination with harvesting the fruiting wild tree. Part 3 discusses how we brewed the beer. Historically speaking, it’s debatable whether or not [...]
