As much as it pains me to see people living out my dreams I can’t help but be excited for my good friend and fellow Burnt Hills Spartan Brian O’Connell and his wife Khara . Brian and I have known each other since we were just young little lads and reconnected a few years back at a friends wedding. I noticed Brian was the only one asking for a glass with his bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and the beermance was sparked. We spent the weekend catching up on the good old days and drinking a lot of beer… a lot of beer. If Khara started to question the relationship by the end of the trip she hid it well. Truth be told she had every right to.
After that we kept in touch over the intertubes. Emailing each other about our homebrew from time to time and what we’d been drinking. Then one day I got an email from Brian that he was opening a brewery. After moping around the apartment for a few days and asking my wife “Why not me?!” over and over I finally got really excited for Brian.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Brian it’s how much time it takes to get a brewery up and running. I assumed you decided you wanted to brew, you bought some space and then 3 or 4 weeks later you had a brewery. Not so my friends! There’s been name changes, location scouting and most of all a crap load of paperwork. But now Renegade Brewing Company has a home, a liquor license and if there’s a god on this earth they’ll starting churning out beer in the near future.The plan is to open up sometime this summer with a fifteen-barrel brewing system and start off with a mix of organic and non-organic brews.
Until then hop on over to the Renegade Brewing Company Facebook page and “like” the hell out of them to keep up to date on their happenings and even check out some job openings. More importantly though in ten years when you’re standing at some beer fest drinking Renegade’s latest kick ass release you think of me. You’ll be bragging to your friends about how you heard about these guys back before they even brewed a drop of beer and you tell them I told you about them. If you don’t I swear on my life I will find you and make you listen to me sob about how it should have been me. Trust me, my tears ruin even the greatest beer. You’ve been warned.
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