Down the Rabbit-Hole We Go

                 Oh my ears and whiskers! The White Rabbit.

Today I visited a brewery right in my home town, White Rabbit Brewery. 

White Rabbit Brewing Company

219 Fish Drive

Angier, NC 27501

(919) 527-2739 (BREW)

They invited me over to help them brew and they would pay me too! Pay me in Beer! That's like taking a kid to a candy store and letting them try all the candy.

'Who are you?' said the Caterpillar.


White Rabbit Brewing Company is a brewery that bases all their beers on the book "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland." . All their beers names come from the book, like: Tea Party Porter, Dunkin Dormouse Octoberfest, Cheshires Pumpkin Ale, Jabberwocky Tripel, and Drink Me Cream Ale just to name a few.
 

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”  Lewis Carroll

I had a chance to talk with Owner and Brewmaster Kenneth Ostraco while I drank one of their Tea Party Porters, Which was amazing.  It being a Vanilla Bourbon Porter, It was strong on vanilla and bourbon flavor in the best way possible. But to focus on the quote above, Kenneth told me the brewery's story from the beginning to where he is looking to go with it in the future. He started off like most all other Masterbrewers, As a home brewer. White Rabbit has a nice size space with a tap house in the front and the brew house in the back.  The tap house has eight beers on tap at any given time and the brew houses air is full of malt and hops about twice a week.  Kenneth went on to tell me he is right where he wants to be. He has a good clientele and a list of clients waiting for beer. From our conversation, it appears that Kenneth didn't want his brewery to be like fire works, shoot to the top and fizzle out. " I want to take small steps and stick to my grassroots" said Kenneth.  He had told me he has had some big offers to help him go full size and become a full size brewery.  He went on to say "I do not want to jump into the deep end and have someone hand me two cinder blocks and see how long I can tread water".

   

 





I'm late / I'm late / For a very important date. / No time to say "Hello, Goodbye". / I'm late, I'm late, I'm late. The White Rabbit


Time to start Brewing.  We brewed three barrels of beer. Gryphon’s California Common, Rabbit's Nutbrown Ale and Pale in the Park.  Good times hanging out with Kenneth from White Rabbit and Adam from Homesteaders Brew Supply.

Brew today, See you tomorrow