This Week In Craft Beer News: Early Lagunitas Days, The Alchemist, Independence, Library Alehouse

This Week In Craft Beer News
Good Beer Hunting sat down with John Kimmich of The Alchemist “That’s what we’re all about…creating a great working lifestyle for our employees, so they don’t get burned out, so they have passion about what they do” If you’ve ever been curious about what goes on in the mind of the man who makes Heady Topper for a living this is a good place to start.
I was working at a great little draft beer bar near UT’s campus in Austin when Rob and Amy Cartwright came in peddling some brand new beers that they’d conjured at their start-up brewery: Independence. That was 12 years ago and in a way it seems like it was last week. The Cartwrights are throwing a big anniversary party this weekend in Austin.
Library Alehouse in California has set a gold standard for beer hoarding. Now they’re setting the bottles free from their tomb.