TCB Oct. 11, 2018 — The Beer Issue

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Gaslighting PAGE 11

After Facebook

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October 11-17, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

For the beer issue, my issues with beer Every year, for the beer issue, I am forced to confront my own relationship with that ancient and noble beverage, of which I was

by Brian Clarey once very fond.

It’s been almost seven years since I severed my relationship with drink — I was either very good at it or very bad it, depending on whom you were asking — and I learned to have no regrets about what came before or after.

So on the surface, it might seem contradictory for me to publish an annual issue lionizing a thing that, towards the end, brought me more than my share of trouble.

But not if you think about it.

I made my living pouring beers, among other libations, for 15 years. It helped me pay for college and entirely funded my twenties. I met hundreds of interesting people in my years behind the bar, saw and did the sorts of things that people don’t even believe when I tell them.

It was worth it for the stories alone.

I saw Jamie Bartholomaus turn his tiny Foothills brewpub into a regional player in the industry, watched Chris Lester and

Kayne Fisher sell off all their bars and bet it all on Natty Greene’s at the corner of McGee and South Elm streets, which in turn ignited a renaissance in downtown Greensboro.

In the years since I began my abstinence, the beer industry — specifically the microbrew and brewpub nodes of it — has boosted the economy of our region. Old friends have become business owners and old drinking buddies have turned into gourmands when it comes to the suds.

Beer is still a part of my life — though not in a Kavanaugh way. Though I have no plans to drink one today, I still like beer because it puts people to work, it brings them together and gives them an excuse to be together in a time when such a thing is sorely needed.

Brewpubs have become cultural hubs with live entertainment, themed nights and women’s arm-wrestling. Regulars argue about yeast strains and ABV in the way my old customers used to bicker about batting averages and Super Bowl MVPs. People bring their dogs — and their kids! — to frolic in the carnivalesque glow cast from the food-truck lights.

These days, a visit to a brewpub is barely recognizable to me as drinking.

That’s probably a good thing, depending on whom you’re asking.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

These demonstrators, I’m sure some of them are well-meaning citizens, but many of them are obviously trained to get in our faces, to go to our homes up there to almost attack us in the halls of the Capitol. So there was a full-scale effort to intimidate us as well. What I think this has done for us is provide the kind of adrenaline shot that we had not been able to figure out how to achieve in any other way. We think there’s some evidence that this is gonna be very helpful to us next month.

— Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in Citizen Green, page 11

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CITY LIFE October 11-17, 2018

by Savi Ettinger

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THURSDAY Jeansboro Day @ LeBauer Park (GSO), 4 p.m.

Wrangler and Lee commemorate the hometown of their brands in the 4th annual celebration of the city’s vivid denim history. Bring your chairs and blankets for a live performance by Simply Irresistible, with food trucks, free cupcakes and ale adding to the festivities. Additionally, a handcraft market highlights local vendors. Find the event on Facebook.

FRIDAY Uuuugly Duckling @ Greensboro College, 7:30 p.m.

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Little Cats, Big Issues @ Greensboro Science Center, 6 p.m.

Dark in the Park @ Historic Bethabara Park (W-S), 6 p.m.

Experience a kid-friendly, nighttime hayride and encounter scarecrows, witches and soldiers on your trip. Grab your costume and join a haunting tour to the cemetery, or get your face painted and create crafts while listening to the spooky sounds of the Bethabara Band. Find the event on Facebook.

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Dr. Ashwin Naidu presents a learning opportunity about fishing cats. Discover all about these small, endangered wild cats from South and Southeast Asia and the larger issues they face. Find out about these rare animals, and what communities can do to make a difference. Learn more on Facebook.

Michelle Malone @ Big Purple (GSO), 7 p.m.

Head over to the Odell Auditorium for this play based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale, as performed by local young actors. The classic story about acceptance and feeling like an outcast runs through the weekend. Buy tickets and learn more at thedramacenter.com.

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The Empire Strikes Brass @ Wise Man Brewing (W-S), 8 p.m.

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Pack a picnic for a lively show from award-winning singer and guitarist Michelle Malone. Weaving blues and Americana together, Malone’s soulful sound makes for a wild and joyful concert. Buy tickets and learn more on Facebook or at michellemalone.com.

Though they hail from Asheville, the Empire Strikes Brass boasts horns of New Orleans brass traditions. Merging the groove of second lines with psychedelic funk, this band brings the unexpected to their setlist. Find tickets and learn more on Facebook.

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Triad Dessert Market @ Foothills Brewing (W-S), noon.

Treat your sweet tooth with this sugary selection of dessert-makers and bakers. Whether it’s cupcakes, cookies or candy apples, find your favorite at this local market. Even dairy-free and vegan items are available, so taste around or take a box home. Find more information on Facebook.

Tate Street Festival @ Tate Street (GSO), 1 p.m.

Fall Festival @ Ingram’s Strawberry Farm (HP), 1 p.m.

This seasonal jamboree features animals, apples and activities for the whole family. Ride on over to the pumpkin patch on a tractor, enjoy fresh food and live music, or learn more about the farm. Find the event on Facebook.

Vladimir Kulenovic Conducts Brahms @ Stevens Center (W-S), 3 p.m.

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Ana Popovic @ the Blind Tiger (GSO), 8 p.m.

Promoting her new album Trilogy, guitarist and songwriter Ana Popovic takes the stage for a powerful show. Masterful rock, blues and jazz sounds have earned her much acclaim, including six Blues Music Awards nominations. The genres blend for a seamless and moving show, whether you like slow ballads or high-energy jams. Find more on Facebook.

SATURDAY

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Cuban Car Show @ Hanes House (W-S), 10 a.m.

SECCA and the Old Salem Chapter of the Antique Automobile Club illustrate the shared, but complicated, history of Cuban and American car culture, in this free event.

Bring your family to create your own hood ornament, with art and vehicles around you for your inspiration. Find out more at secca.org.

PRIDE @ Downtown Arts District (W-S), 10:30 a.m.

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This lively celebration transforms Tate Street into a showcase of handcrafts, fine art and other goods from more than 50 vendors — all locally based artists, musicians, and businesses. Live performances from seven bands fill the street with energy, and festivities go into the evening. Find the event on Facebook.

SUNDAY Triad Vegan Market @ Greensboro Farmers Curb Market, 11 a.m.

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This market with dozens of vendors invites you to try out plant-based, vegan food. Even if you don’t practice veganism yourself, this opportunity to try new things offers an array of food trucks, shopping and family-friendly activities.

Learn more on Facebook.

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The annual celebration of the LGBT+ community promises an exciting activity-filled day. The festival includes a parade, a food truck rodeo, an assortment of vendors and live performances. Wave your pride flag high or show your support at this joyful event. Find out more at pridews.org

Five conductors display their talent during the search for the next music director for the symphony, the first of which is Vladimir Kulenovic. Watch as he conducts Weber, Shostakovich, and Brahms in this showcase of skill. Find out more at wssymphony.org.

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NC Brewers Cup winners

by Sayaka Matsuoka

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The North Carolina Brewers Cup, an annual, statewide beer competition now in its 7th year, announced its winners last week after judging entries from 76 different NC breweries. Of the 624 beers entered into the competitions, 25 of them came from Triad breweries. Brown Truck Brewing out of High Point even won Honorable Mention in the Best in Show category for its #47 Fainting Goat Spirits Saison.

Below are all of the Triad beers that won awards this year.

GOLD Torch Pilsner by Foothills Brewing, Winston-Salem, in Czech Lager Foothills Oktoberfest by Foothills Brewing, Winston-Salem, in Amber Malty European Lager Right Proper by Leveneleven Brewing, Greensboro, in Strong European Beer Mash Temps Matter by Leveneleven Brewing, Greensboro, in Brown British Beer #7 Scotch Ale by Brown Truck Brewery, High Point, in Scottish Ale Outraged Daughters by Wise Man Brewing, Winston-Salem, in Irish Beer Right Proper by Leveneleven Brewing, Greensboro, in Dark British Beer Sexual Chocolate by Foothills Brewing, Winston-Salem, in American Porter and Stout Body Electric by Wise Man Brewing, Winston-Salem, in Strong American Ale Something Wonderful by Wise Man Brewing, Winston-Salem, in Belgian Ale Born to Funk by Wise Man Brewing, Winston-Salem, in American Wild Ale #47 Fainting Goat Spirits Saison by Brown Truck Brewery, High Point, in Spiced Beer Ger-Merica Dry-Hopped Pilsner (collaboration with Liberty Brewery and Grill) by Brown Truck Brewery, High Point, in Specialty Beer SILVER Civil Rest by Little Brother Brewing, Greensboro, in Strong European Beer People’s Porter by Foothills Brewing, Winston-Salem, in American Porter and Stout #19 Belgian Witbier by Brown Truck Brewery, High Point, in Belgian Ale Thousand Chords by Wise Man Brewing, Winston-Salem, in Strong Belgian Ale Saint Augustine by Four Saints Brewing Company, Asheboro, in Smoked Beer

Dlicieux by Four Saints Brewing Company, Asheboro, in Wood Beer BRONZE Hardy Bear Helles Lager by Fiddlin’ Fish Brewing Company, Winston-Salem, in Pale Malty European Lager #15 Octoberfest by Brown Truck Brewery, High Point, in Amber Malty European Lager Sleeping Lion by Wise Man Brewing, Winston-Salem, in Strong Belgian Ale Tropical Shirts by Wise Man Brewing, Winston-Salem, in Fruit Beer Oats-n-Fruit by Four Saints Brewing Company, Asheboro, in Alternative Fermentables Beer HONORABLE MENTION Murder on the River by Four Saints Brewing Company, Asheboro, in American Wild Ale #47 Fainting Goat Spirits Saison by Brown Truck Brewery, High Point, in Best in Show Medalists will be on display in the Education Building at the NC State Fair Oct. 11-21.

Medals will be presented to winners at the annual Awards Banquet held on Nov. 7 at the NC Craft Brewers Conference in Winston-Salem. To see the full list of award winner, visit ncbeer.org.

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We need to talk about Sexual Chocolate.

It’s not so much the name of the Foothills’ iconic cocoainfused Imperial Stout — a nod to the fictional band in Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America — that affronts, but the fetishizing label art that has accompanied the brew since its 2007 release. Concern over the label, which features a busty, dark-skinned black woman wearing the Foothills logo as a necklace pendant, isn’t new. Though protest hasn’t quite risen to a boiling point, the overtones of the image have always reeked of misogynoir, a term used to recognize the unique misogyny black women experience.

In the midst of this heightened cultural reckoning with race and gender dynamics, it’s high time for the conversation to kick back up. Consider first that the artwork isn’t even that apt of a reference to the film. What did the conversations around this artwork sound like?

Whose voice was missing from the table? There is a difference between intent, however benign, and the impact of reproducing hypersexualized imagery of black women for profit. Anyone suggesting the label art is merely meant to conjure the blaxploitation genre is participating in mental gymnastics to make excuse for what, in context, is just plain exploitation. Narratives and images of hypersexual black women have marinated in the white-supremacist imagination for centuries and continue to drive physical and structural violence against black women in America. Feigning ignorance won’t cut it.

It’s important to note that Foothills’ Jade IPA similarly leans on Orientalist subtext regarding Asian women’s sexual desirability. It’s harmful, however subtle.

Inevitably, some will argue that because some black women drink it, or don’t interpret its label art as offensive, that it is therefore not offensive, but as the pithy maxim circulated whenever Omarosa throws people who look like her under the bus goes: “Not all skin folk are kinfolk.”

The bottom line is that the Sexual Chocolate label art is racist and sexist and that Foothills — so often framed as a crowning glory in our community — can and should do better. If their leadership is willing to listen, to atone and to demonstrate accountability with action, imagine what else might be possible. But when they dig their heels in and talk at us about things we must not understand, we should keep imagining a just future nonetheless.

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In 2013, journalist Eric Ginsburg obtained a trove of emails that revealed that Councilwoman Marikay Abuzuaiter served as a confidential informant for the Greensboro Police Department. (In 2014, Ginsburg would help found Triad City Beat; he now works as a freelancer in New York City.)

Abuzuaiter vociferously denied it. And while the revelation cost her the trust of many progressive activist friends, her reputation with voters seems to have only prospered. She’s won three citywide elections since being outed. Which raises the question: Why not just own up to it?

During the most recent council meeting, on Oct. 2, several speakers called for the dismantlement of the police department’s controversial civil emergency unit, and a couple alluded to Abuzuaiter’s history with the department.

It’s hard to know where to start in unpacking Abuzuaiter’s denial and justification for her comportment.

“For me being called out — I took the citizen’s academy,” Abuzuaiter said. “You can call me anything you want to. But I want to say that I was at a rally, and I was at a rally where children were there. And there was a car that drove by — a van that drove by and stopped. And when that van drove and stopped and started throwing beer bottles at the children, I called the police. I dialed 911. I did it several times. Even when I was at rallies after — I had people telling me: ‘Are the police around in case that happens again?’ So yes, I developed a relationship with the police. But I was not the things that were called and that you’ve called out. I don’t think I’d be here if that were true.”

The fact is that the term “confidential informant,” or “CI,” used to describe Abuzuaiter comes straight from the police. A November 2009 email from Lt. Mike Richey to police employees Teresa Biffle, John D. Slone and Steven Kory Flowers begins with a phone number, and then Richey writes, “The number above is Marikay Abuzaiter [sic]. She was a frequent CI during the Palestinian protests. She called a few minutes ago to advise us that Tim Hopkins is planning a protest for 1530 ours [sic] at Market and Elm the day after Obama announces a troop buildup in Afghanistan.

“His surge protest in 2006 was the time we ended up arresting 11 when they tried to take over the street,” Richey continued. “You should have the intel report on your computer.

“Marikay said you can call her, just keep her involvement among us,” Richey concluded. “She was very reliable and hates Hopkins so there is plenty of motivation.”

About 20 emails obtained by Ginsburg show Abuzuaiter forwarding information to police employees about activist gatherings in 2010 and 2011, often with projections about which groups and individuals would participate and how many people organizers expected to show up.

Abuzuaiter’s anecdote about calling the police because she was in a protest that was attacked at least superficially would seem to have little to do her documented role as a CI. The problem with her explanation is that it implies an obligation on the part of citizens to provide something of value to police in return for their service. Of course, anyone who is being assaulted with beer bottles should feel free to call the police for protection. But beyond thanking the officers for their assistance, the use of police services doesn’t need to be turned into a transaction. As public servants, their salaries are paid for through taxes paid by property owners and residents. What about those who don’t want to share information about their friends’ First Amendment activities with the police? Are they less deserving of police protection?

Also, as an elected official, Abuzuaiter should be the one holding the police accountable on behalf of the public, not someone who needs to ply the police with intelligence to “earn” protection.

De-sexualizing Sexual Chocolate

by Lauren Barber

October 11-17, 2018

Marikay Abuzuaiter’s relationship with police

by Jordan Green

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NEWS

Forsyth school board forum lures challengers, few incumbents

by Jordan Green A candidate forum hosted by a progressive group in a conservative part of the county mostly draws challengers.

The Coalition for Equity in Public Education formed in 2015 to promote urban school investment in the run-up to the school bond that went before Forsyth County voters the following year, comoderator Carolyn Highsmith explained to the audience at Clemmons Public Library on Monday.

The citizen group’s base lies in Democrat-learning District 1, which covers much of Winston-Salem. With two incumbents in District 1 retiring, voters effectively selected new representation during the Democratic primary in May. Democrats Malishai Woodbury and Barbara Hanes Burke are running unopposed in the general election.

So by hosting a forum for at-large and suburban District 2 candidates in Clemmons, the coalition essentially took its progressive agenda to the governing board’s conservative power center.

The four seats allocated to District 2 are typically a lock for Republican candidates, and Republicans also hold two out of the three at-large seats. Perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise that challengers — who are more likely to need exposure — predominated at the forum, while incumbents — who might prefer to avoid uncomfortable questions — were largely absent.

The list of absented incumbents included Board Chair Dana Caudill Jones and Lori Goins Clark, both Republicans in District 2; Republican Vice Chair Robert Barr and Democrat Elisabeth Motsinger, both at-large members.

Democrat Deanna Kaplan, who is also running at large, was the only challenger who was a no-show.

For Andrea Pace Bramer, a southeast Winston-Salem parent and one of the three Democrats on the ballot for the three at-large seats, the absences represented a deeper disconnect.

“I think it’s important that we flip the board,” Bramer said. “They’re not here.

When we talk to them, they don’t listen.”

The toughest call came when the candidates were asked to take a position on the district’s School Choice assignment plan. Like many school assignment plans adopted around the country after the end of court-ordered bussing in the late 1980s and ’90s, School Choice

Lida Hayes Calvert greets a voter before a candidate forum at Clemmons Library on Monday.

reverted to neighborhood schools with some allowance for choice within zones.

The moderators drew on New York Times reporter and MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Oct. 2 “Color of Education” speech at Duke University to frame a question about how the district should go about “creating spaces where children truly meet as equals.”

The two Democratic challengers in District 2, Marilynn Baker of Kernersville and Rebecca Nussbaum of Winston-Salem, both generally embraced overhauling the school assignment plan in some fashion.

“School Choice has been behind the re-segregation of our schools,” Baker said. “It is broken and it needs to be fixed.” Baker’s comments on addressing

the concentrations of poverty and socioeconomic imbalances between schools focused on increasing overall funding.

Nussbaum counseled caution.

“This is an incredibly complicated and complex issue,” she said. “I would hate to see a reactive push.” She said she would like to see a county-wide effort similar to Mayor Allen Joines’ WinstonSalem Poverty Thought Force to muster “a joint wisdom, a community wisdom to solve this problem.”

Bramer said it’s time for the school board to face a difficult reckoning.

“When you talk about bussing, people only seem to have a problem with one way,” she said. “They don’t mind us bussing our kids to their schools; they just don’t want to bus their kids to our schools. Yes, people are going to be

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angry.” Bramer noted that the district faces a Title VI complaint based on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 over health and maintenance issues at Ashley Elementary, the lowest performing school in the state. She warned that the district could potentially end up in federal receivership, adding that elected leaders “need to show up and make some hard decisions.”

Lida Hayes Calvert, the only Republican incumbent in District 2 who attended the forum, acknowledged the persistence of inequality in the district, noting the contrast between wealthy schools with beautiful facilities and poor ones where many of the students come to school hungry.

“To be honest, it does break my heart,” she said. “I am for School

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED WIDENING OF U.S. 70 (BURLINGTON ROAD) FROM MT. HOPE CHURCH ROAD (S.R. 3045) TO BIRCH CREEK ROAD (S.R. 3175) IN GUILFORD COUNTY

October 11-17, 2018

TIP PROJECT NO. U-2581BA The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed widening of U.S. 70 (Burlington Road) from Mt. Hope Church Road (S.R. 3045) to Birch Creek Road (S.R. 3175) in Guilford County. The primary purpose of this project is to reduce traffic congestion and improve mobility along the U.S. 70 roadway.

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The meeting will be held on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church located at 5120 Burlington Road in Greensboro from 4-7 p.m. The public may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Please note there will be no formal presentation.

At the meeting there will be maps of the proposed plans as well as project team members who will be available to answer your questions and receive feedback. All comments will be taken into consideration as the project progresses. The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail no later than November 1, 2018.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Lauren Putnam via email at lnputnam1@ncdot.gov or by phone at (919) 707- 6072 as early as possible, so that arrangements can be made.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

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For additional information please contact NCDOT Project Manager, Laura Sutton, P.E., by phone at (919) 707-6030 or by email at lsutton@ ncdot.gov or Consultant Project Manager Lauren Triebert, by phone at (919) 741-5524 or by email at ltriebert@vhb.com.

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As information becomes available, it may be viewed at the NCDOT Public Meeting Webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/.

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Choice.

“I also look at the kids who don’t have choice,” Calvert continued. “They don’t have transportation.

Is that choice? No, it’s not. We need to sit down and find a way for every child to have opportunity. It’s not happening now.”

Leah Crowley, a Winston-Salem Republican who defeated incumbent David Singletary in the primary, said she wants to improve magnet schools to make School Choice work better.

“I do think when parents have choice, there’s more buy-in,” she said. “When you have neighborhood schools, it’s easier for kids to get involved in afterschool activities.”

Tim Brooker of Winston-Salem, one of the Republican challengers for at large, said he supports the current plan.

“I am in favor of School Choice,” he said. “As a parent, it’s imperative to get the best situation for your child. We shouldn’t have a thought process of punishing the successful schools.”

Jim Smith, another Winston-Salem Republican in the at-large race, argued that before the district dismantles School Choice, leaders should study other school systems to see what has worked.

Two candidates — Crowley and Calvert — indicated they would support the use of public funds to pay for a new stadium at Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem.

“I’m absolutely in support of this project,” Crowley said. “This is an access and equity issue.” She said almost half of the students at the historic high school qualify for free and reduced lunch, and about 60 percent are non-white.

“To take part in after-school activities, the children have to pay participation fees, or they have to have transportation,” she said. “Most of the time they don’t participate. It really bothers me that our school teams don’t reflect the school population. It kills me that those kids are left out.”

Baker said school-board members need to be prepared to fight for more state funding overall.

“We need more nurses and social workers,” she said.

“By golly, we need history textbooks that are less than 13 years old. We need school-board members that are willing to stand up to Raleigh.”

Some candidates volunteered that they would ask the county commission for more money to fund teacher pay supplements — something the current board has been faulted for not doing.

“I would ask,” Brooker said. “I wouldn’t worry about the sustainability.”

Smith said he would want to ensure that there was adequate funding to pay for the supplement year after year.

Calvert said she recently attended a county commission meeting, and overcame her trepidation to ask the board for additional funds.

“I did get off the floor,” she said. “It takes a lot of guts to do that, folks.”

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Sen. Krawiec says racist meme on FB page escaped her notice

by Jordan Green A woman identified as Sen. Joyce Krawiec’s social-media manager called President Obama a “monkey” on the state lawmaker’s personal Facebook page.

For almost four weeks state Sen. Joyce Krawiec’s personal Facebook page displayed a racist meme depicting Barack Obama with racially caricatured protruding lips and the text, “Me, me, me… yes, me” — an apparent attempt to portray the former president as a childish narcissist.

If the meme itself is only mildly racist, the personalized text in the post is overtly so. A woman named Joan Fleming shared the post to Krawiec’s page, writing, “This is for Krissi…she’s always like this monkey!!”

Asked about the post, Krawiec said she had not realized it was on her page.

“I rarely read postings,” Krawiec said in an email to Triad City Beat. “I usually post and move on. I have thousands of friends and rarely see most of the postings.”

Her response tacitly acknowledged the offensiveness of the post without specifically dealing with its racially derogatory contents.

“Of course, I don’t approve of any such postings and would never leave them on my page intentionally,” Krawiec said. “I have deleted the post.”

Krawiec has represented Senate District 31 since early 2014, when she was selected by the Republican Party to fill a vacancy with the retirement of Pete Brunstetter. Krawiec is currently running for re-election in the Republican-leaning district, which carves a doughnut out of the suburban and rural parts of Forsyth County, and encompasses the entirety of Davie County. Her Democratic opponent is John Motsinger Jr. Until Oct. 6, Fleming’s personal Facebook page identified her as the manager of Krawiec’s campaign page on Facebook, although the lawmaker did not respond to requests to clarify her role.

Fleming did not respond to a message from City Beat requesting comment.

Some of the posts on the Joyce Krawiec for NC Senate page, particularly in late August, project an alt-right viewpoint depicting a struggle between pro-Trump nationalism and a sinister globalist cabal.

One post made shortly after the toppling of Silent Sam, reads: “Asking what was wrong with honoring this soldier.

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The meme featured a racially tinged caricature of Barack Obama, with a comment referring to him as a “monkey.”

State Sen. Joyce Krawiec said she does not often check her Facebook page, and took the racist meme and comments, attributed to her social media manager, down when she was alerted to it.

this and will get away with this. So sad that this is happening: destroy our statues, destroyed our education, destroyed our history and now working on the flag.

Stand up, America! Where’s the gov and attorney general.”

One commenter, apparently a family member of the state lawmaker, responded with disappointment: “Oh, Aunt Joyce, please tell me your social media manager wrote this and that you do not believe it.”

The post aligns with Krawiec’s position on Confederate monuments, in content if not tone.

“We cannot allow anarchy,” Krawiec told City Beat. “I am completely supportive of Silent Sam being repaired and replaced. I think the current law says those monuments will stay where they are. I believe in supporting the current law. I would definitely want our monuments to stay. He was there to honor fallen soldiers. Those were soldiers who,

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regardless of what you think about that war, gave their life for the state. I think it’s very disrespectful the say the monument was torn down.”

Another post shared on the campaign page weaves together the issues of Confederate monuments and professional football players kneeling to protest police brutality, attributed to a person named Linda Lannoo Rose: “There’s a bigger picture most people aren’t understanding about this whole kneeling thing! The goal of the globalists is the dismantling of our American heritage, and thereby the destruction of our identity as a nation. Removing historical statues is the beginning. Removing the flag and the anthem is next. Ultimately, the goal is to remove the constitution [sic]. If we keep giving in and continue to accept the dismantling of our culture and the removal of our heritage, then we become what the globalists want… a 3rd world country prime for socialist control.”

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The page also includes a link to Trump @ War, the new documentary by Steve Bannon.

Fleming’s personal Facebook page similarly promotes hyper partisan Republican themes. On Oct. 6, she posted a meme attacking Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the liberal Democrat from Massachusetts, matched with a purported quote: “If women need to be raped by Muslims to prove our tolerance, so be it. Then thank goodness for Planned Parenthood.”

“Surely, she didn’t say this?” Fleming posted.

No, she did not.

Snopes found that the bizarre quote was first attributed to Warren on Facebook in January 2017. Snopes flagged the quote as “false” and a fabrication. “The poster commented in the original that ‘She really did say this!’” the entry reads. “However, neither he nor any other commenter managed to locate a source for the credulity-begging remarks. Predictably, we also found absolutely no trace of comments made by Senator Warren that matched (or even paraphrased) the words attributed to her above. No other sources latched on to what would be a highly newsworthy statement, and social network other than Facebook appear to be largely free of the same claim.”

Fleming had removed the post by Sunday.

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forced the resignations of Al Franken from the Senate and John Conyers from the House. Naturally, Republican politicians must manufacture a countervailing movement to fuel their election machinery.

Cue the #HimToo movement.

“It’s a very scary time for young men in America when you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of,” President Trump said on the White House lawn before Kavanaugh was even confirmed. “This is a very, very difficult time. What’s happening here has much more to do than even the appointment of a Supreme Court justice. It really does. You could be someone that’s perfect your entire life, and somebody could accuse you of something. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a woman. And you’re automatically guilty. But in this realm you are guilty until proven innocent.

That’s one of the very, very bad things happening in our country.”

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some of them are well-meaning citizens, but many of them are obviously trained to get in our faces, to go to our homes up there to almost attack us in the halls of the Capitol. So there was a full-scale effort to intimidate us as well. What I think this has done for us is provide the kind of adrenaline shot that we had not been able to figure out how to achieve in any other way. We think there’s some evidence that this is gonna be very helpful to us next month.”

When the inevitable reaction to their scorched-earth politics and acquisition of power at all costs is outrage, the Republicans are now trying to make incivility an issue, burnishing their “law and order” brand by attacking Democrats for supposed “mob” behavior.

Interestingly, “mob rule” was the charge leveled by former North Carolina state Sen. Thom Goolsby at the antiracists protesters who tore down the “Silent Sam” statue in Chapel Hill on Aug. 20. Then, on the first day of Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, way back on Sept. 4, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said, “This is the first confirmation hearing for a Supreme Court justice I’ve seen basically according to mob rule.”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) took up the theme later, accusing Senate Democrats of having “encouraged mob rule.”

Trump piled on during an Oct. 5 campaign stop in Topeka, Kan. “You don’t hand matches to an arsonist,” he said, “and you don’t give power to an angry, left-wing mob. And that’s what they’ve become.”

With Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, the Republicans have essentially ceded #MeToo to the Democrats; it was already stacking up that way, after the election of a Republican president who bragged about grabbing women’s genitals and the nomination of Roy Moore — the Christian theocrat facing multiple allegations of sexual assault by girls — for Senate in Alabama, while Democrats

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by Jordan Green Kavanaugh had been confirmed to a seat on the Supreme Court — a signal after the excruciating testimony of Christine Blasey Ford that sexual abuse doesn’t matter and powerful men can get away with it.

Democratic lawmakers naturally are looking to extract a political victory out of their defeat on the nomination fight.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), a likely presidential contender in 2020, electrified Iowa Democrats during an Oct. 5 appearance, urging, “It is not a time to give up, it’s a time to get up, to rise up, to speak up. It’s time for you not to wait for hope, but to be the hope.”

In other words, vote.

President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who face uncertain prospects over whether Republicans will be able to retain control of both houses of Congress in November, see that they don’t have the luxury of celebrating the achievement of conservative control of the Supreme Court for the next generation. Instead, they must also position themselves as the wronged party — the victim in need of vindication.

“The tactics that have been employed both by Judiciary Committee Democratic senators and by the virtual mob that’s assaulted all of us in the course of this process has turned our base on fire,” McConnell said at a Capitol Hill press conference on Sunday. To be clear, while protesters disrupted the confirmation vote and tearfully confronted lawmakers in hallways and elevators with stories about their personal experiences of sexual assault, no lawmaker has been assaulted.

Speaking at a press conference in Kentucky the following day, McConnell pressed the point (and the lie).

“We were literally under assault,” he said. “These demonstrators, I’m sure

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Life after Facebook Social media — particularly Facebook — has become a transformational force in the American conversation. It’s an accelerant to the news cycle. A hub for like-minded folks to organize. A realtime fact-checker for those who would deceive us. It’s become so pervasive in many of our lives that we get withdrawal symptoms when we’re away from it for too long. For some, it is their only interaction with the internet.

But believe it or not, there was a time before Facebook.

It was a more innocent — and more productive — era, when we had no idea what our friends’ kids looked like, when people would go to a news website and hang for a while to read a bunch of different articles instead of just parachuting in from social media for a one-page stand, when we could go our entire lives without knowing the political affiliations of our angry relatives and we found out about rock shows and art openings from posters stapled to telephone poles.

Facebook has become the de facto public square after vanquishing MySpace and steamrolling over Google+, a competitor launched in 2011 by the search network. Google announced plans to shut down Google+

by August 2019 after discovering that

90 percent of all visits to the site lasted less than 5 seconds, and also a nasty security vulnerability, according to a report on CNet this week.

Today Facebook lures 2.23 billion monthly users; it’s hard to believe a juggernaut of this size could ever constrict.

But it’s already starting.

First off, it’s possible as many as half of Facebooks profiles are catfish and Russian bots — the company deleted 1.3 billion fake accounts in May. And as the threads have morphed from pictures of our friends’ kids into a political rage and propaganda machine, more and more people are tuning out.

Most significant, though, is the age cutoff.

Baby Boomers like Facebook just fine — the ones who can figure out how to use it. In the United States, Millennials make up the largest block of account holders and Generation X has the strongest cohort of daily users, according to reports by Nielsen and Statistica.

But young adults — 18-24 years old and under, demographically speaking — have just 39.4 million Facebook accounts. And of the 230 million or so US Facebook accounts, just 6.8 million belong to the youngest bracket, 13-17.

All things, even Facebook, will pass.

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by Sayaka Matsuoka More than 3,000 different beers from thousands then the awesome flavor of yeast.” of breweries around the country are scored by Named after its batch number, the #4.5 isn’t hundreds of judges for over 45 hours. That’s what necessarily for everyone, but it’s a satisfying beer competitors have to make it through to place at the that offers a kick from the hops that are added Great American Beer Festival, an annual beer tasting late in the process. For those that want to try and competition held in Denver. The festival draws the two-time award winner, it’s on tap at Brown more than 60,000 visitors each year, making it the Truck but may not be for long. largest beer event in the country, and one of the larg“This beer has a few different varieties of hops est in the world. And despite the fierce competition, that are hard to get,” says Burnett. “Whenever two Triad breweries took home medals this year. the hops come around we buy it but the hop Brown Truck Brewery in High Point won multiple trade in the brewing world isn’t right for small awards at the festival during its first year of opbreweries. We don’t have big checkbooks like eration in 2016 and won a silver again in the 2018 some of the other guys.” competition for its #4.5 Dry Hopped Saison. The Little Brother Brewing in Greensboro can symbeer, which also won silver in 2016, is a regular on pathize.

Brown Truck’s menu and competed in the AmericanThe small craft brewery nestled on the corner Belgo-Style Ale category against more than 70 other of Elm and McGee Street in downtown has made breweries, according to Ian Burnett, the head brewer a name for itself since opening in November last and co-owner at Brown Truck Brewery. year. Despite only being equipped with a four“It’s not just small breweries,” Burnett says. barrel system, (for comparison, Natty Greene’s “We’re competing against all the big boys.” has a 27-barrel system), Little Brother Brewing And it’s true. A close look at the long list of comtook home a gold from the festival this year in petitors yields names like Sierra Nevada, Oskar Blues the South German-Style Hefeweizen category for and New Belgium. its Civil Rest beer.

Brown Truck Brewery however, which won Very Made with all local malt from Epiphany Malt in Small Brewing Company and Very Small Brewing Durham, the beer is one of the brewery’s flagCompany Brewer of the Year in 2016, seems to have ship products, along with its Gostosa IPA and no trouble competing with the beer giants. They also Jim’s Lunch Stout. Stephen Monahan, the head SAYAKA Stephen Monahan, head brewer at Little Brother won multiple awards in the NC Brewers Cup this year brewer and part owner at Little Brother, says Brewing holding the award-winning Civil Rest beer. MATSUOKA where 76 breweries from across the state competed it was made with careful attention to details. in 34 categories. #4.5 placed Monahan, who studied same category. in that event too. to become a brewmaster in “The thing is the local craft malt,” Monahan says.

Made with French-style Germany, says he used his “There’s tighter control over quality given the size of Brown Truck Brewery is located at yeast that results in a experience tasting hefethe batch.”

1234 North Main St. in High Point. slightly peppery flavor with weizens, or wheat beers, in As for what it’s like to win a gold their first time in Learn more about their beers at a distinct funk to it, Brown South Germany to create the competition, Monahan says it’s nice but that he Truck’s #4.5 Dry Hopped Civil Rest. wants to continue to focus on the beer. browntruckbrewery.com. Little Saison is the perfect beer “The flavor and appear“What’s really great is that we have the honor of Brother Brewing is at 348 S. Elm St. for the end of summer and ance comes from the wheat bringing more attention to Triad beers,” Monahan in Greensboro. Find out more at beginning of fall. Bitter but malt,” Monahan says. says. “Our priority from day one has been providing crisp and refreshing enough “There’s very little hops. great, quality, local, craft beer.” littlebrotherbrew.com. to drink away the still-warm They’re added mostly for For those that want to attend a marriage of these evenings, this golden, hoppy anti-microbial properties two award-winning breweries, Brown Truck and saison offers notes of orange and not for flavor.”

Little Brother will have a new collaborative product zest with a medium mouthfeel.

A little cloudy with a golden orange tint, the beer coming out within the next month that’s a combi“The flavor goes on kind of a rollercoaster,” says looks a bit like fizzy grapefruit juice. It has notes nation of Brown Truck’s #4.5 and Little Brother’s Burnett. “You get that Belgian-y funk and the first of orange peel, banana and clove with a pleasant, new Apricana, an American Wheat Ale made with thing that hits you is the aroma of the hops. Floral slightly creamy mouthfeel that coats the entire palapricots. to herbal to tropical fruit notes. Then the malt flavor ette. The finish is somewhat sweet. It’s not hard to “It should be pretty fun,” says Burnett. kicks in, adding sweetness, and then a little bitter, see why it won against 150 other competitors in the

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Jennifer Hahn: Crunching the numbers for craft brewers

by Savi Ettinger

On a standard brewery tour, guests will explore production facilities and get a behind-the-scenes look at how their beer is made. This is not the case for Jenny Hahn.

Jenny Hahn has been an accountant for 20 years, distinctly specializing in craft breweries.For many accountants, there’s a niche. Hahn excels with smaller businesses, and when she and her business partner uncovered a need for bookkeeping among craft breweries, Uncanny Bookkeeping was born.

Jenny Hahn’s bookkeeping work stems from enthusiasm for both numbers and craft beer.

Walking through any brewery, she sizes up the operation and matches it with a list of regulations in her head. She’ll note the attached restaurant and acknowledge the increase in transactions and payroll the business would manage.

COURTESY PHOTO Jennifer Hahn “It’s not always everyone’s passions to do the accounting work and care in the craft-beer community surthe bookkeeping and the day-to-day prised Hahn. With each brewer making tedious numbers, number-crunching, the pursuit their own, she finds the but it’s my passion,” Hahn explains, learning endless. “so that’s where I can help craft brewHahn holds but one critique: “You eries succeed.” know what I would like to see in this Hahn’s own personal hobby of industry? More women! More women homebrewing only enhances her perbrewers. We need more women homespective. After brewers and a single class more women taken during a Uncanny Bookkeeping, craft brewers, trip visiting her and so come www.uncannybookkeeping.com sister, Hahn on, women! discovered her Let’s get out own zeal for there!” the process, which she has now been Hahn delights that many women are practicing for three years. IPAs are her stumbling upon passions for craft beer favorite. the same way she did, and cherishes “It’s very scientific but it’s also fun. her experience with all beermakers.

It’s something I can focus on and then “They’re my favorite type of client come out with a product that I can that I’ve worked with. They’re great enjoy and share with my family and people, they’re generous, they love friends,” she raves. what they do. They don’t necessarily Even with her expertise, the everlove the parts that I do,” she laughs. evolving regulations and the level of “So that works out well for everyone.”

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Up Front News The HOPS series at Preyer Brewing brings a chamber SAYAKA ensemble form the Greensboro Symphony into the brewpub. MATSUOKA

tune game,” the audience became more engaged and quickly guessed the tune as the theme song from Game of Thrones. Winter is coming after all.

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The four musicians sat in the center of the room, of life: millennials, older adults, families with kids, forming a tight semicircle. They carefully tuned their dogs. It’s a great community gathering space. One strings, bows moving swiftly across instruments one of goals of this was to try and bring new and diverse fluid motion at a time. As they prepared to play, the individuals into the symphony fold.” guests filed into the space, filling the rows of seats.

And as the first 20-minute set came to an end and But as the artists began to play their first notes from a quick intermission kicked in, the brewery was filled a movement by Bach, there were no stage lights with the new sound of clinking glasses and conversabeaming down on them or a conductor at the helm. tion.

Instead, they played in a “We wanted to encourage small, carved-out space in a more social atmosphere,” the middle of Preyer BrewCrupi said. “In a regular To learn more about the HOPS ing in downtown Greensboro atmosphere, the symphony under dark, wood-paneled tries to play a lot of music series and to purchase tickets for ceilings, right next to the bar. with short intermissions, but the December event, visit greens“This is a unique format for it can be hard to sit through borosymphony.org/concerts/ us,” explained Daniel Crupi, that hour-and-a-half long hops-series. the chief operating officer at format. People are also there the Greensboro Symphony, to see their friends and meet and the one who addressed new people.” the crowd. “This is meant to To keep guests entertained, be casual; this is meant to be fun.” the event took place in three separate 20-minute An audience of about 100 had gathered on a intervals, with two 20-minute breaks in between.

Sunday evening in late September to experience A couple sitting at the bar during one of these the inaugural HOPS series event, a collaboration intermissions said they had come because the event between Preyer and the symphony that brought seemed interesting. chamber music to a more casual atmosphere. The “We come to Preyer often but we’ve never been to event, which cost $20 and included a ticket to the the symphony,” admitted Molly Hilburn-Holte. “We show and a complimentary beer, sold out quickly, listen to classical music but we aren’t that knowldrawing longtime patrons as well as new listeners. edgeable.” Her partner, Preyer also released a new beer, Bachtoberfest, in Andrew Evans, said conjunction with the series and as a celebration of that he had even sent Oktoberfest. An amber colored marzen that’s peran email asking if there fect for the season, it’s malty and caramel-y, with a was a dress code for the slightly bitter finish. event.

As the stringed quartet played, the listeners could The woman they had witness up close the artists’ facial expressions and just met who sat next levels of concentration in a way that would have to them at the bar, Joan been impossible in a traditional concert hall. The Kinder, said that going players thrust their upper bodies vigorously while to a symphony could be keeping up with the tempo of the second piece, a kind of intimidating for tango. Audience members tapped their feet and those that didn’t know bobbed their heads as they sipped beer and wine. anything about it.

Soon, one of the musicians began performing piz“It’s kind of like zicato, plucking the strings of his violin, creating a church,” Kinder said. lively staccato sound that complemented the effer“You only go if you have a vescence of the beverages being enjoyed. friend that’s going.”

And despite the unconventional setting for this Unlike the couple evening of music, chamber music was made for however, Kinder, who places like this, according to Crupi. came alone, said that she “Chamber music, especially in the 1700s and listens to classical regu1800s, was a totally social experience,” Crupi said. larly and that she’ll be “People would get together at each other’s houses back for the next event in and play.”

December.

Kind of like an 18th Century jam session.

“It’s a great price point Richard Henry Walthew, an English composer who and location,” Kinder produced music in the 19th and 20th centuries even said. “The pieces are accalled the format the “music of friends.” cessible and it’s a fun way A brewery, in Crupi’s opinion, is the perfect place to enjoy beautiful live for this kind of music. music; it’s not stuffy.”

“Breweries embody a unique function in today’s And as the quartet world,” Crupi said. “You see people from all walks kicked off a “guess that

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Big Dan Morgan, the godfather of local craft beer

by Lauren Barber

Homebrewing beer requires respect for a certain formula, a centuries-old outline concerning temperatures, treatment of hops and the needs of yeast.

Yet, there’s an element of alchemy not lost on Dan Morgan, an award-winning homebrewer and the founder of Leveneleven Brewing in Greensboro, who’s been tinkering since high school.

“I used to drive to Greensboro to get my ingredients and stop at Schoolkids Records which is now the Walgreens on the corner of Spring Garden and Aycock,” he says. “Dark, dark times for homebrewing; it was foul stuff, basically a glorified Mr. Beer kit so all you had to do was dissolve the… pre-hopped liquid extract, which was slightly less viscous than tar.

“You dissolved that in water then added 3.3 pounds of corn sugar, which we now know makes the most horrible alcohol,” he continues, reveling in the memory. “You brought those to a boil just to sterilize it and as soon as it foamed up you’d kill the heat, cool it down. The yeast came taped onto a can that was part of kit. Just about everything was wrong but it did technically make alcohol.”

He’d sprinkle in some sugar for the yeast in his aunt and uncle’s kitchen and ferment the questionable concoction in the back of his closet for 10 days and store bottles in the ceiling crawlspace. Now, his baseline process lasts about five weeks and he’s moved it to the back of the brewery and taproom he opened next door to his homebrewing shop last February. Both face the Greensboro Coliseum Complex on Coliseum Boulevard.

LAUREN BARBER Dan Morgan opened Leveneleven Brewing after years of homebrewing and consulting with other Morgan’s foray into beer-brewing as an adult bebeermakers. Several of his mentees have become brewmasters in their own right. gan with a back injury that forced him to slow down in 2005. The man needed a hobby.

Gibb’s Hundred Brewing a 10-gallon brewing system hard work. But you get closer with the ingredients “I walked into Triad Homebrew on Market, bought for his pilot batches and mentored Andrew Deming, by repetition and you get a lot of insight. Then just a [homebrewing] kit and lost my damn mind,” he who founded Four Saints Brewing in Asheboro, their troubleshooting stuff with people, drinking a lot of says. “It was a passionate hobby for a year or two shared hometown. flawed beer… scooping a lot of ingredients and just and then I started doing competitions.”

He’s mentored three state champions. working with the stuff all day really pays off when He opened Big Dan’s Brew Shed, a homebrew shop, “Derrick [Flippin] who works for me now was an you encounter [problems] on a larger scale.” about eight years ago to fund his own adventures amateur champion in 2016,” Morgan boasts. “He So, despite rigorous cleaning sessions and stuffy and share in the thrill. went from walking into my shop… to being national noses from histamine-packed hops, he absolutely “It opened at exactly the right time, in exactly the champion in like two and a half years. He’s won loves the process that taught him patience. right market but those days are long gone,” Morgan about everything an amateur can win. We have a “Homebrewing… is like fishing,” he says. “You get says. “The majority of home brewers are collegegood track record.” up really early… you might not catch anything, you educated, middle-aged men and 2008/2009 is when And they have the hardware to show for it. Last come back sunburned and dehydrated, but you can’t a lot of those men had their careers snatched out week, Leveneleven took home three gold medals at wait ’til you can do it again.” from under ’em. And in North Carolina, we’re slow to the beer competition at the NC State Fair, including When he lays down at night, he’s thinking about everything so craft beer is Best in Show for the first beer, dreams of it, and awakes with a fervor to tinker boomin’, people are startbeer they brewed profeswith recipes. ing to drink better beer and sionally in collaboration “It’s beer first with us,” Morgan says. “I like to say Learn more at leveneleven.com and getting curious.” with Wise Man Brewing, we’re pushing the envelope, but backwards. These visit at 1111 Coliseum Blvd (GSO).

He says teaching others the Right Proper Tropical are styles that have been overlooked in the mad rush “high-end nerd stuff” feels Stout. He says the stout has [to create novel brews].” like his calling. placed in every competition “We’re trying to find 49 people — that’s our max “Teaching felt like what I it’s entered. occupancy — who appreciate what we’re doin’ and should be doing, I feel like where I’m supposed to be.

But Morgan insists the trade isn’t half as sexy as we know they’re out there,” he continues. “People It’s probably my favorite thing to see the joy it brings it’s perceived. who love good beer and know beer, they don’t typithem.”

“It’s boring honestly,” he says. “It’s a lot of cleancally care about what’s on tap but what else is on tap Many of Morgan’s former mentees went on to ing; it’s do the mash, get your starch converted to and that’s how we are, too.” open breweries of their own. He sold Mark Gibb of sugar, boil it, don’t infect it, let the yeast do the

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