Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 61: The Silo Microbrewery’s fatal travails, 1994 – 1997.
Hang on tight, dear reader. This installment’s tilt-a-whirl chronology goes something like this: 2002 to 1993/94 to 1994/95; then from 2024 to 2006.
The first batch of New Albanian Brewing Company’s flagship Community Dark, an English-style Dark Mild, was brewed at 3312 Plaza Drive in 2002. The brewer was Michael Borchers, and the low-mileage brewhouse was well-traveled: it worked at Tucker Brewing Co. in Salem for three years, then came to Sellersburg at Silver Creek Brewing Corporation, before joining NABC.
To house the first brewery in New Albany since 1935 we built an annex onto our building adjacent to the pizzeria dining area. It’s a story I’ll tell later in greater detail, but for now, something often forgotten from the Public House’s earlier days is that we first discussed brewing on site almost a decade earlier.
In retrospect, the conversation never went beyond mere speculation, and there isn’t very much to say about...Read more
