CBB // It’s been a long one—you’ve been here 11 years; you’ve seen it through a lot of phases. You’ve certainly watched craft beer as a whole explode. And you’ve ridden it all along, but you’ve also kept some core principles along the way.
TM // Yeah, I have come to a realization that after the year has passed, it is the last year I’ll ever experience that brewery, and [I] get ready for a new challenge and a new future every single year along the way. It’s changed every single year since I got here in 2008, right when this Longmont facility opened up. And you can say that the blood pressure has had its ups and downs, but at the end of the year, we are definitely very happy with what we’ve accomplished. Nonetheless, [we’re] continuing to evolve and challenge ourselves and how we make beer and why we make beer.
CBB // Every year you look at the next year as a different experience for the brewery as a whole; you put [last year’s] brewery to bed. What have been some of those major turning points for you?