Front Street Brewery

I’m happy to announce that Front St. Brewery won a Silver Medal at the first annual WAHA Restaurant Olympics.  There were 8 events in total and teams had around 6 members each.  Competition was tough but we held our own against some great teams and ended up coming out with a Silver medal.  We won two events outright.  Aaron Blakely and myself rocked the fish toss and beat all comers.  I guess my outfielder experience along with his fish expertise helped us win that event.  Aaron and Justin Lamott won the mine field challenge.  It was a two man event where one person(Justin) was blindfolded and Aaron had to talk  Justin through the minefield without letting him step on a mine.  I’m pretty sure Justin did it in world record time.  He was clocked in at 11 seconds.  Most people were doing the event in a little over a minute.  Rachel, Kara, Justin and Aaron did an amazing job with the server/bartender obstacle course where they had to carry a tray one handed with two full wine glasses through some cones and hand it off to each other.  I smartly stayed out of that event.  I’m still sore from the dodgeball event.  Out of all the people there I was one of five left on the court when I got knocked out with a ball to the elbow.  I really wanted to win that event.   I’m glad we took home a medal, but overall it was just a great day for some of our staff to get away from work for a day and enjoy themselves, which I’m certain they did.  We’ll be back next year to defend our medal and hopefully come home with the gold.  A big thanks goes out to the Blockade Runner for holding the event at their awesome facility.  I hope there wasn’t too much damage to the place.

As for some beer news……we’re getting ready to ship a few of our beers out to Hickory for the Carolina Championships of Beer.  Hopefully we’ll bring home some medals.  As for new beers on the horizon we have an Irish Red coming out fairly soon and a Belgian Golden that will be on tap in the next few weeks.  A lot of people have been asking for the Biere de Garde………don’t fret……..I’ll be brewing one up soon so keep an eye out.  I hope all of you are doing well out there in Internetwebland.  Keep drinking good beer!!

Kev