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So Jack is a real entrepreneur, a very quirky personality.Jack started New Albion Brewery in Sonoma.And that was really the first home built brewery.
of some old stainless dairy tanks, and opened up and got a license for a brewery in Sonoma.And he called it New Albion, and it made only a few barrels of beer at a time, compared with tens of millions being producedby the larger players on the scene.
So I think it's interesting that those two women were kind of there at the foundation of the craft beer revolution.That project, New Albion, was kind of doomed from the beginning.I mean, it was too small, and the whole idea of craft beer was too new at that time to really have any kind of chance.
And I was able to bond with my daughter.And after I sent her home, they transferred me to Albion Correctional Facility, which is the medium security facility in New York state on the borderline of Canada.And from there, I didn't receive another visit from neither one of my children.
She's 80 years old now but had just returned from a tour of Europe with her niece, and she and Jane do a lot of traveling together.Actually, she told me that she and Jane did a lot of the brewing after New Albion got up and running, that Jack kind of left the brewing to them, whichis interesting if you think about in the days before the commercialization of brewing, a lot of the brewing was done in the home by women.
It was an important six years though, because there were other members of what I call the pioneer group-- people who started before 1984 building craftbreweries. So Ken Grossman from Sierra Nevada visited Jack and the brewery at New Albion.Paul Shipman, the guy who Caleb mentioned, from Redhook-- he came there, the guy from Goose Island in Chicago.
Paul Shipman, the guy who Caleb mentioned, from Redhook-- he came there, the guy from Goose Island in Chicago.People from all over the country who were interested in starting breweries came to see what was happening at New Albion.And a number of breweries started up as a result of that.
That was critical to our developing our businesses and the beers we were selling and how we priced those beers.We learned so much, the same way the later pioneers learned from Fritz and New Albion.Things developed pretty quickly in the '80s.
and we're prohibited from doing that from capturing accurate information on a couple levels one is because whensomebody leaves the facility I'm prohibited by the Department of Corrections from any subsequent contact with them so they get drafted to Albionthey get they get released I'm not allowed to follow up so we work with these families for a long time and then
And also, that was-- this would have been in the mid '70s, when the campaign for real ale was happening in England.And so Jack came back to California, to Sonoma, and cobbled together a brewery called New Albion,using old soda tanks, Pepsi tanks, 55 gallon tanks, and dairy tanks to make this brewery.
with his mom Zach it stood up to her um I can you talk a little bit about Albieon cuz out again I came at the end and I don't have talked about that a bit outside um I think in Albion you knowhere I was in a facility for 20 years I had my own private cell I mean he doesn't sound you know I'm not I know
dinner and even little kids get a small glass of wine.craft beer phenomenon. And one of the big leaders, a lot of the phenomenon really started here in California itself with like, New Albion Brewing Company which has
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