Category Archives: History

Some stories from the past…

Brewed In the Traditional Manner

By this time, the New Albion Brewery was closing down and I got together with Jack and we worked out a deal to buy his brewery and bring him and brewers Don Barkley and Michael Lovett into our new enterprise. … Continue reading

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The Infamous “Thunder Beer” and more…

In 1978, my brewing partner Norman and I, at the time, had been homebrewing for about 4 years and developed a beer based on Fred Eckhardt’s small homebrewing pamphlet out of Portland Oregon. Fred called it a steam beer as … Continue reading

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