Happy Thanksgiving
Wow, what a year.
So many so many awesome people have come into our lives this year that we will
never had the opportunity to meet without the brewery. We have had a year of
trying our best not to suck and it doesn’t come without a ton of help. We have
produced more than 1,500 barrels of beer this past year. That is 46,500
gallons. We have hosted lots of private parties, done a few of tours, given
some beer and money to several charities, and had a ton of fun. This being the
season of Thanksgiving, I want to thank so many people. I will forget someone,
but suck it up, it wasn’t intentional.
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To all of the people who have bought our beer
both at the tasting room and at local restaurants and bars. Thanks for buying
our beer and thanks for raising hell when places don’t have us on tap.
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To our regulars at the tasting room who have kept
us company week after week.
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To our investors and their family members for helping
us whenever we needed it whether it was manning festival booths, promoting us,
or working behind the bar in the tasting room. Lisa McCormick, Lisa Stevens,
Katie Caplenor, Jennifer Nelson, Sydney McCormick, Suzanne Hall, Intern Matt.,
Ashlee and Dustin Smith, Kelsey Nelson, the ‘other’ Nelson kids Emma and
Elisha, and Allison Sims. Thanks Clay Gupton for coming in and busting ass to
help us every week.
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To my old man Bob “Bobarino” Nelson and Gary Fryery
who did a ton of mechanical, plumbing and electrical work over the past 14
months.
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To Karen Winford who documented our events in
awesome photographs.+
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To Austin Gray whose graphic art talents have
branded us so well.
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To my brother and his wife Tracy and Mary Nelson
who have helped out almost every Saturday doing whatever needed to get done.
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To my wife Pamela and son Wyatt who have been neglected
while I pursue my dream, and who have been there to keep the ship sailing in
the tasting room and paying the bills.
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To my brewers John Overby and Nick “Wiz” Wisniewski
for making great beer and working to continuously improve our processes, and for
helping with the sound on special events.
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To Tommy McCormick for always being there. What
a bromance.
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To Charles Nelson for kicking total ass on
social media and booking bands.
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Mike Stevens for doing anything behind the
scenes that he can and sporting and awesome mullet.
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Mike Caplenor for sharing his gift for carpentry,
business and his sweaty bald head.
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All of the bands that have come to play. A
special thanks to all the bands who have come from out of town to play in the
brewery. And for those who have come
back a second time, Thelma and the Sleaze, Crazy Aces, Static Revival and Them Vibes.
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Charles Pierce & Worxgroup for being Mayday
merchandise central.
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To our distributor RS Lipman. Go sell some more
beer.
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To Ashley Francis who has been loving the people
and selling our beer.
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To Randy Jubilee and Mark Dunkerly for bringing
us Jubilee and the attitude that goes with it.
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To Dave Baughman and the crew at Allied Boiler, Mike
at Walter Hill Plumbing and Rick Young at Diversified Metal Engineering. Your
support has been awesome, and I’m sure the check is in the mail.
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To all of the restaurants and bars that carry
our beer. I love you.
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Dawna, Joe and Michelle at the Art Barn.
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Melinda Hudgins Noblitt and Nancy De Gennaro for
the great press.
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The Yeasty Boys
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To “BAM” Dave Tratchet for etching those cool
Jugs of Fun for event prizes.
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Food trucks, My Roots, Two Guys in a Lunchbox,
Shorty’s Pizza Bus, Miller’s Grocery, Govenor’s BBQ, and everyone else that has
helped us out with food.
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To Jarrod Franklin and his hungry dairy cows for
picking up and properly disposing of our spent grain.
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To Matt and Rent the Big Event for the use of
the trailer and corn-hole sets.
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Jamie
Jennings at Broad Street Tobacco and Mike at Liquid Smoke for promoting our
beer all over town.
· Panther
Creek. Thanks Melvin, JT and Jeremy for the lighting and advice as well as all
of the support.
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To Art
and the MidState Brewcrew.
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Tyler at
Rebel Brewer for his hardware advice.
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Sean “Talk to the Hand” for his fancy coffee for
the “Talk to the Hand Coffee Stout.”
And Brandon Hanna Custom
Tattoos for the never fading Evil Octopus.
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I feel very loved.
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Thank You
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Ozzy
