During the tumult of yesterday, I am reminded at how awesome the beer community is.
Three local brewers deserve special note:
Doc, the Director of Brewery Operations for BJ's national chain, has been incredibly supportive through the entire brewhouse fabrication process. He loaned me some yeast, has walked through several times to suggest process improvements, and is overall an awesome dude.
Jonathan Buford from Arizona Wilderness talked me through some issues last night and shares his entire brewery with me. I stop there at least every week to look at a process which I need to fix. He and Patrick, the Head Brewer, and Brett the Operations Manager all give me hugs and encouragement whenever I see them.
Anthony and Gabe at San Tan Brewing, our neighbor 3 blocks away, are a couple of the guys who got me into brewing in the first place. I brewed at San Tan as my first brewing experience, bought the first keg they ever sold (5 years ago) and the first 6-pack they sold at the brewery. They have generously offered to let us clean kegs at their facility, allowing us to use a fully automated keg washer without having to make the enormous investment. This saves us a LOT of time and chemicals.
This is simply a mention to the three organizations and people who have given over and over and over. MANY local brewers have stopped by and every one of them have offered genuine and sincere help.
Thank you all!
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