Happy Reformation Day! Today marks the 504th Reformation Day and the 8th anniversary of Reformation Brewery. I feel like I’ve said a lot of words marking this occasion over the years so this year I’m gonna save a few. I simply want to say thank you for the love you share with me and with Reformation Brewery. The past year was full of challenges personally and professionally, but one constant has remained; your support. Because of your love and support through the challenges, the future remains a road full of promise. I’ve never been more committed to executing my personal values and vision as well as those of Reformation Brewery. I’ve learned so much over the last 8 years about myself, the community, and this business and brand. Primarily I’ve learned it’s all bigger than any 1 person, any 1 brand, any 1 purpose. One of my favorite appreciations of reformer Martin Luther kind of sums up where I am this year.
“Luther [was] a kind of artist who at his best transmuted his personal sufferings into theological ideas that can inform an utterly compassionate vision of Christianity as a religion of honesty and mercy for suffering and screwed up human beings.”
From one screwed-up human being to another, I am humbled by it all and I hope there is no better place to be in order to serve you and love you even better in the days and years to come.
Halloween is such a fun day. I know there’s already a lot going on today and I hope you get to spend it with your loved ones. If you’re around downtown Woodstock, feel free to stop by the backyard at Reformation. My son and I will be grilling hot dogs around 6, there will also be sweet treats for the kids, some live music from our own Kurt Wheeler, and then we will settle in to watch the Braves become World Champions. But fair warning, when all this happens, I’m gonna straight man cry all over you. Go Braves!