Mount Pleasant Magazine Jan/Feb2016

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it could end up.
Coleman Public House has long been a reliable spot for
craft beer drinkers, including the Two Blokes themselves.
It has 16 rotating taps, a few of which always feature
beers from local
breweries.
In June 2011,
House of Brews
became Mount
Pleasant’s first
dedicated craft beer
bar, with a huge
range of bottles
and cans for sale,
as well as a rotating
selection of eight
beers on tap that
can be taken home
in a growler.
When House of
Brews first opened,
it was hard to get
people interested,
according to owner
Rob Davis, but, in the end, “a lot of it was really just
talking to people about beer.” When someone walked in
looking for a Miller Lite, for example, he would suggest a
craft pilsner instead, and slowly, he saw palates change.
Sure enough, a little over two years later, Mount
Pleasant got a second craft beer bar when Crafty Draught
set up in Seaside Farms with 26 taps of rotating craft beers.
It wasn’t long before the craft beer scene matured in
another direction with the opening of Yeast Everything
Homebrew, which, as the name suggests, is a dedicated home
brew shop that offers everything from supplies to classes. Peter
Kinslow opened the store after doing some research and, like
the new breweries
coming to town,
discovering an
underserved
market. He also
said he expects the
interest in home
brewing will grow
with the rest of the
industry.
“The craft
brewers, they
make home
brewers,” he said.
“People start to
learn about the
craft beers, what
goes into them,
why does this
taste one way and
this taste the other, and they get more curious.”
To people who were already home brewing in Mount
Pleasant, the store itself is a catalyst for progress.
“You have to have that expert, that one person who
brings everyone together,” said John Mutter, a mobile
developer for IBM who lives in Dunes West. He started
a home brew club that meets every five to seven weeks
and makes a couple of batches of beer. He used to buy
Get Your Craft Beer fix!
Visit a BrewerY
Ghost Monkey Breweries
Westbrook
Two Blokes Brewing
Make Your own
Yeast Everything Homebrew
Bottles Beverage Superstore
BuY one
House of Brews
Crafty Draught
Coleman Public House
Matt Symons and Sean Geddis are the two blokes who started Two Blokes Brewing.
Photo courtesy of Two Blokes Brewing.