“My whole brewery had a foot of foam in it. He was like, ‘Just fire me, Mike! Just fire me!’ No, just give hug me, dude. I’m just glad you’re alive. Whatever. You didn’t get hurt. It’s alright. What am I gonna do? Then he quit like a week later because he said he had PTSD from it. Seriously. He wouldn’t do anything after that.” — Mike Montoney talking about a former employee
The Grit and Grain podcast presents an interview with Mike Montoney, founder and head brewer of Rainy Daze Brewing in Poulsbo, Washington. Twenty-year homebrewer and member of the West Sound Brewers, a notable homebrew club in Kitsap County, Washington, Montoney scores a brew system from closed Battenkill Brewing of Poulsbo, apprentices on a professional with Brad Ginn and Mark Hood of Sound Brewery, goes on to open 1.5-barrel Rainy Daze Brewing with Michael Painter on Olympic View Loop near Bangor in 2012, delivers his first keg, a cask of Jack Got Baked, at the Great Pumpkin Beer Festival, moves into Sound Brewing’s former 7-barrel building in Poulsbo in 2016, wins a bunch of awards including the 2017 Peaks & Pints Tournament of Beer with his Goat Boater IPA, spends an hour talking about his brewing career with a bunch of goofballs on the Grit & Grain podcast.
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