THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, July 1, 2010 BREWMASTER from 1
New England brewer and his wife, Kate, who will shortly earn her doctorate in mathematics and who has worked for numer- ous Hartford, Conn. area insurance companies as well as Yale’s Interna- tional Center for Finance, started eyeing it as the place they wanted to live and raise their children. “It’s Kate’s dream. We’ve
been looking in this area for a property for a long time. All I did was keep asking her if I could brew beer here,’’ says Davis, who grew up in Sanborn- ton, learned brewing in California and came back to his home state in 1996 where he landed a job as assistant brewmaster at Castle Springs in Moult- onborough. It was there that he worked with Rich- ard Young at the fabled Lucknow brewing opera- tion whose India Pale Ale and Porter became leg- endary in the short time the brewery was in opera- tion. When Young left Da-
vis became brewmaster at Lucknow, which later
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lager category in 2004 at the GIBF and his Imperial Porter placed third in the Strong Beer category in 2003. His Old Marley Bar- leywine, Liberator Dop- pelbock and Hop Meadow IPA also received much critical acclaim from beer aficionados. Davis’s newest ven-
ture will be a small, fam- ily owned farm brewery named Prodigal Brewing Company which will be located at the 20-acre Misty Mountain Farm that he and his wife are in the process of reviving. “We had been searching
Paul and Kate Davis and their daughter, Zebubahd.
closed in 2002, just as the Castle in the Clouds prop- erty was being acquired by the Lakes Region Conser- vation Trust. Davis moved to Connecticut where he became head brewer at
Troutbrook Brewing Com- pany, a Hartford brew- pub which was reborn as Thomas Hooker a few years later. His Oktoberfest gar- nered a Great American
ROGER AMSDEN PHOTO Beer Festival (GIBF) Silver
medal in 2002 as well as multiple medals at Great International Beer Festi- val competitions in Rhode island. His Munich Lager captured first place in the
for over a year to find the perfect farm property to locate this brewery along with many other facets of farming. We believe we have located this property on the Ossipee watershed and bought the farm over a year ago. We recently received state and fed- eral brewing permits and I have been test brew- ing some new recipes for this brewery which will focus on brewing tradi- tional German inspired
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