Neighborliness.

Yesterday the NABC brewers moved Bread and Breakfast's artisan bread oven into place.

As David Pierce noted: "Baguettes are in our future."

In David's photos above are Josh Hill (top and bottom right) and Peter Fingerson (middle and bottom left).

Peter places the spotlight on LCBW, one last time.

It may interest readers to learn that I'm not the only writing member of the NABC team. Peter Fingerson, who we hired to work in the brewery a few months back, also has column space at LouisvilleBeer.com, and here's his most recent submission.

LCBW – Beginnings and Endings

Now that Louisville Craft Beer Week has come to a close, and before its memories have slipped out of our collective consciousness for a while, I feel it necessary to bring it into the spotlight one last time before that happens. By this time, it should be common knowledge that it was a success. This was the biggest, baddest (the cool sense of the word), and most well-attended LCBW to date, which is truly an amazing thing. Now we just need a way to tally how many pints were consumed throughout the week. Is there an app for that?

"2013 Great Taste of the Midwest Review," by Peter Fingerson ... and some other recent additions to the NABC team.

One of NABC's newest employees, Peter Fingerson, has written an account of the Great Taste of the Midwest and posted it at LouisvilleBeer.com. Included are photographs from Peter's wife, Aubrey.

Peter was contributing columns to LouisvilleBeer.com before we hired him at NABC. Initially he was an applicant for the sales position now occupied by Blake Montgomery, and David Pierce almost immediately pegged Peter as the brewer we needed as the next step expansion nears.

Of course, we still miss Richard Atnip in the NABC family (Richard was on duty for New Holland at the Great Taste, and we chatted about the old and the new), but in the end, the search for Richard yielded three new team members: Blake, Peter and Alliee Bliss, who has been bartending wonderfully at Bank Street Brewhouse. Add to those names Kimberly Durham and Julie Adwell, all-purpose coordinators coming aboard this summer at BSB and Grant Line, respectively, and you can see that we've been growing.

As a writer, I'm especially taken with Peter's composition skills ... and Aubrey can take a mean photo. We're up somewhere around 75 full- and part-time employees. It's a far cry from the days of manning the bar solo, six days a week -- thankfully.

2013 Great Taste of the Midwest Review

Our newest NABC hires.

After NABC posted on-line in April for the brewery representative position being vacated by Richard Atnip, we received 45 applications.

It was a "wow" moment for me.

For perhaps the first time in company history, we formed a committee of owners and managers, and began going through the submissions. There were many good ones, and it wasn't easy sifting through so much talent.

This resulted in a final list of 10, two rounds of interviews, and the eventual hiring of Blake Montgomery. Significantly, two others among the applicants have been hired for jobs other than brewery rep: Peter Fingerson in the brewery, and Alliee Bliss as bartender and server at Bank Street Brewhouse.

Blake is from Kansas, his wife hails from right here in New Albany, and they've lived in Kokomo for a long while. It's heartening to know that they're willing to relocate for the job, and all of us at NABC are feeling good about what's coming.

Meet Blake Montgomery and Peter Fingerson