original batches. “It’s variations of what we have, especially our year-round are definitely some I had brewed,” says Lamm. With this being their first spring and summer, he’s considering “playing around with peaches and a wheat-based beer.” The best part about Oconee Brewing is that “he’s living the dream. I don’t really consider this work even though I’ve never worked harder in my life. The longest days, the six day-a-week-16-hourdays, I don’t even notice.” It’s a family affair at Oconee with his parents and his wife (identified as the lady who kept asking questions during a tour at his first brewery job), and now it’s Leo who’s stealing the show as Lamm’s best home-brewed success (even giving him his own label, Lion Lamm). Why make that 30-minute drive from Athens to Greensboro? “Greensboro has a quaint feel, where Main Street is the main drag. Plus, this building. We took this 100-year-old building (originally a mill warehouse) and made it into something,” cheers Lamm. But he declares, “It’s the good people making the best beer.”
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