No win, no place, no show: craft beer at the N.C. State Fair
The North Carolina State Fair ignores the state’s amazing beer scene. It’s time for the State Fair to recognize the great home-grown accomplishments of North Carolina’s talented homebrewers and 50+ professional brewers, just as it promotes and rewards the state’s professional and amateur wineries. And cake decorators. Cattlemen and women. Cookie bakers and jam makers. Watercolor artists and fern stylists. Pickles [...]
2010 post about a 1960s vision of the 1990s
We’ve got a lot going on: test batching kicks off soon…hopefully today. Insulating, ordering supplies, pouring concrete, finishing a stage…it’s kind of wacky. Almost too much to update with pictures and activity. So instead we present you with this video, a fascinating British 1960s peek into the telecommunications future of the 1990s. Analog meets digital: scanned [...]
Soon and Soft. And three words.
We’re cranking out a brewery this week: process piping, electrical, tavern plans, a front door…so much going on. Things that may seem mundane like, “Will the glycol chiller’s amp draw work with our electrical service?” and “Where to put the power drops to the brewhouse?” and “How will we auger the grain?” All these questions [...]
