TELL US ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND AND WHAT LED YOU TO OPEN IRONSHIELD BREWING. I’ve got a couple partners in this project. My main partner, Glen Sprouse, and I really came up with this idea a number of years back, so it took time to put together all of the funding. Both of us have backgrounds in manufacturing and the beverage and beer industry. I spent 13 years at Coca-Cola in the enterprises division. I really loved it there. It was a great place. I never thought I would leave, but then Microsoft made me a deal I couldn’t refuse. So I spent five years at Microsoft as a strategist for the consumer goods manufacturing side. I got to work with some of the greatest manufacturing companies in the world through that. But all along, I had this love for beer. During my Coca-Cola days, we were working on building a giant manufacturing plant down in New Orleans. During that time, there was this guy I kept passing in
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