Thursday, August 5, 2010
Almost, but not quite
Whenever I talk to James of Wandering Aengus, I hear promising bits of news regarding possible brew pubs coming soon to Salem. Last night, after hearing him talk about some exciting late summer/early autumn events, I made the leap and blurted, "you know what I'd love to see here in town? A new brew pub with lots of windows on the waterfront, with a nice, big balcony/deck overlooking the Willamette.". He had a "then you're going to like what I have to say" look on his face, but he didn't get a chance to speak. A representative from Rogue Brewery, cut into the conversation to tell me that they now have a tasting room open in Independence and there are plans in the works to open one of their brew pubs on site. James interjected that they're going to continue to hear from Salemites, "we want it HERE".
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Funny you should mention that. I'm a brewer currently living in Tri-Cities WA working for a brewpub up here. I grew up in the Salem area, Silverton actually, my wife also grew up in Salem as well as both of our families, my wife's parents own a farm out in Pratum. We are moving back to the valley next summer and we have talked extensively about opening a brewpub in Salem. Problem is we are having a really hard time trying to find money available to do it. Any investors out there? I'd love to bring something unique to Salem, McMennamins and The Ram are chains and Salem really can't call them their own. I'd love to have a locally owned brewery in town that the community can take pride in.
Another Salemite suggested: Seems like you might want to talk to Dino at Venti's or Kirk at f/stop. I'm just thinking about people who might have advice about how to go about it in Salem.
If you write up a post, I'd be happy to put it up on Salemites. You might get a discussion going.
I'm guessing you would link to my blog somehow, I don't use the blog that is under my post handle, for some reason blogger didn't like my wordpress login. I'd love to write something it would be nice to see what sorts of interest there is in Salem. My blog is farmbrewer.wordpress.com I'll let you know when I got something up.
Okay Squeaks, you're on the blog roll. Let's see if anything comes of it!
Thanks for putting me on the blog roll, I guess I'm famous now ;). Anyway I just put a post up so I guess we'll see what sorts of comments come of it.
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