Hailstorm Brewing
by Jim Vondracek on 04/12/14
Our friends Brandon and Emily Banbury, with their partners Chris Schiller and Carrie Schade, opened a new brewery, Hailstorm, got all the required licenses secured on Thursday and we were there on Friday night for an after dinner drink.
Beer culture is alive and well there, and we ran into a number of friends, too, including Sandy and Scott Pointon and Mike Bardusk (Grace was there too, but she escaped having her photo taken).
Nancy enjoyed the Imperial IPA and I had the Pale Ale, then we shared a glass of their Russian Imperial Stout.
Kevin Fennessy was there, he tried a sampler of all five of the beers on tap, and so was Tristan Shaw. Karen Shaw was there too, but my photo of her and Nancy turned out poorly and they would kill me if I posted it.
Hailstorm is self-distributing its beer to other local bars and its tap room is open until 8 pm. The beers that were available last night were the Russian imperial stout, imperial IPA, pale ale, red ale, and a blonde ale.
A big crowd for their first Friday night. Check them out at their website http://hailstormbrewing.com/index.html or on Facebook. Or let me know when you want to meet up at their taproom!
