Introducing…Smokey Grove
10 Monday Mar 2014
Posted in Brewing, Business Stuff, Our Brews
10 Monday Mar 2014
Posted in Brewing, Business Stuff, Our Brews
28 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in Business Stuff
Woohoo! Today is Friday! After a long week of working for the man it’s finally time to round up the Regular Guys and have a meeting of the minds! I’m very excited about this meeting. Why you ask? Because amongst the other important items on our agenda, we’re going to shoot some beer porn! Sexy Regular Guy beer in pint glasses! In bottles! In bottles wearing tiny bottle bikinis! Naked bottles? Sure why not!
Get yourself all hot and bothered thinking about it and we’ll post the pictures ASAP!
Until then…RGB RULES!!!
26 Wednesday Feb 2014
Posted in Brewing, Business Stuff, Observations
Ever since the first notion of starting our own brewery crossed our minds, we have been giving a lot of thought to what kind of beer company we would be. But to be perfectly honest, it has only been within the last couple months or so that those conversations have started to take a much more serious and contemplative tone.
Up to this point, it has been little more than cloud talk. Things might pass randomly through one of our respective transoms, and we would throw it out there. We might giggle or laugh a bit at whatever said idea was, but it was rarely anything that was serious or ultimately usable. The three of us each had our own areas we were focusing on, and progress was being made in each of these areas, but Regular Guy Brewing wasn’t really a holistically united entity. We weren’t quite on the same page, and our noses really weren’t anywhere close to the grindstone.
23 Sunday Feb 2014
Posted in Business Stuff, Observations
Brewing is extremely fulfilling. Not just the brewing itself, but all the other aspects of it. I love the art of business, the number crunching, business plans, marketing plans and just about anything that gives me a creative outlet. I love the creativity of other people and the entrepreneurial spirit in general, it excites me. It still amazes me how people take that leap of faith, jump into the great unknown and stand up against all odds for their passion.
I work in a steel mill. I would never discredit the knowledge and experience of my union brothers and sisters, but I personally feel like there’s something else out there to better suit my acquired skills. I can’t speak for Brian and Seth, but from conversations we’ve had and knowing them for so long I can deduce that they are very skilled at what they do and are great leaders in their fields. I just can’t help but to think that the three of us were brought together to do something bigger.
The Regular Guys have taken part in numerous businesses over the years. Video production has been and will always be one of our great passions. We’ve made quirky films for festivals, corporate safety videos, commercials, music videos, instructional disc golf videos, you name it we’ve probably filmed it! I started a t-shirt company. Seth is a master of creating websites and a guru of graphic design and is still using a company we formed years ago to make the occasional site. Brian and I owned a restaurant, it failed miserably, but the lessons we walked away with are priceless. The point is, whether we succeed or fail in any business we attempt is not important. What’s important is we push forward and continue to try new things. The pursuit of the passion, whatever that passion may be.
What I love about the idea of Regular Guy Brewing is we can combine all of our skills, knowledge and individual backgrounds into one business venture.
Wow, that’s more than I wanted to do on this chilly Sunday, I better take a break!
Until next time!
20 Thursday Feb 2014
Posted in Business Stuff, Just for Fun, Observations, Random Stuff, Sporty Type Stuff
Before I delve too deeply into the dulcet tones of my own typing, let me take a moment to issue a sincere apology for not blogging much (at all really) over the course of the last few months. I don’t really have a good reason for my online absence, so please let me offer a few completely fabricated and generally nonsensical reasons for my lack of writing:
So now that those feeble excuses are out of the way, let’s turn to the here and now.