Plow-to-pint

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.

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Phoebe Lawless of Scratch [...]

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 these “opportunistic” historical Southern persimmon beer [...]

Persimmon harvest (First Frost, part 2)

Persimmon harvest (First Frost, part 2)

Gathering persimmons for our winter ale, First Frost, is hardly scalable or efficient. But it’s a heck of a lot of fun. I needed to get out and in the field for a few hours, especially after weeks of “business-y” meetings. Unlike 32, I crave the rural quiet.
Eagle-eyed readers (and a few doe-eyed ones) may [...]