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The Denver crew got some great stories when talking with Tim, the owner of Strange Craft Beer Co. Enjoy!
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future wife's idea. At the time we were engaged. We were getting married in August of 97'
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and she thought a great idea in June
let's make a batch of beer for the
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wedding and serve it to the wedding party and we'll
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serve it to our guests and there'll be a
little present from us to everybody
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attending. So we went and found a brew on premise in downtown Chicago that used to be an old
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firehouse. And they had a bunch of
recipes and they had the equipment all laid out.
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You went in they told you how to do it. You made a beer, you came back two weeks
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later and you bottled it.
And we made Tim and Marney's Hitching Brew.
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Which was just a really simple
American brown, but after that I wanted
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I wanted to keep going. It was her idea
and she's the one that got me started.
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She sounds cool. She is. I like her. She is
very patient very tolerant. So what did
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the wedding guests think of that first batch? They loved it. It was a nice simple easy
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drinking American Brown. Tim shared with me some amazing stories but the one that
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I loved the most was about the
conception of my favorite the Cherry
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Kriek. You can't do a taster flight without the Cherry Kriek....Quick story
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about that one. The first time I brewed that beer my daughter had just been born.
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She came out with a big mop of red hair. So they're at the hospital overnight and I bring
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our, at the time, four year old son home. I was like, I just had a baby girl, what do I do, what do I do?
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So I ended up going out on the back porch and digging through my grain bins and found
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some Belgian pilsner and some white
wheat and Cherry Kriek was born. That's awsome.
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I didn't want to make a batch of flat tire or batch of Killians irish red clone. And as a
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home brewer I sometimes liked to brew beers that I couldn't get regularly. I used to
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play around with my own version of a Two Hearted recipe which is from Michigan and
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they just barely started distributing here. So for like 20 years of home
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brewing it couldn't get Two Hearted unless I went home to Chicago. Same with the Cherry
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Kriek whereas Belgian red only distributes in Wisconsin. So trying to, it used to
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cost me like a hundred bucks on top of
the cost of case to bribe somebody to
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bring me beer back from Wisconsin. So I got so tired of it I was like, you know...I'll make my own cherry beer.
Tim has won multiple world cup of beer medals and even placed
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top three at the Great American Beer
Fest for his 12% barley wine called
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Doctor Strange.
it's absolutely outstanding. I think that
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Strange Craft is producing the best beer
in town and even publishing this video
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scares me a little because with the
caliber of his beer, this quote unquote
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best-kept secret, could easily blow up
and become the hottest Denver brewery.
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So keep this on the low down! T0F1eTRsdNE |