"Anything less than the best is a felony." --Gilles Deleuze

We’re back for the highly-anticipated second round of our wildly successful League of Partygoers & Elegant People membership program, and 2017 is looking absolutely outstanding. We have a slew of insanely delicious beers in the works, 2 new locations slated to open in the coming year, and a year of experience and feedback under our belts. Ready your faces.

First of all, I can’t thank Tom enough for inviting me to speak today. If you had told me 4 years ago—when my brewery was just a stack of paperwork and a bunch of naïve dreams—that I would be delivering the keynote address at a CCBA conference, I would have said you were out of your goddamn mind. But in a year of unlikely outcomes, here I am. And I’m deeply honored to be speaking to all of you today. I feel tremendous gratitude and respect for the hard work you all have done. This industry has—in the most literal way possible—made my dreams come true. And many of the people in this room laid the foundation for that success. That interconnectedness is what I’d like to talk about today.