Southern Star and Purple Possum Meadery Update

A quick update, Southern Starin Conroe is running flat out and looking for more fermenters. One of the owners is flying to California next week to possibly purchase as many as five more to keep up with demand which must be keeping brewer Dave Fougeron busy given they continue to operate on a 15 bbl system. While we visited they had run through all their Buried Hatchet Stout after a distributor came by and took the remaining 29 kegs they had the day prior. Luckily they had more in the finishing tank they were about to keg the next day.

A quick sidenote on the Purple Possum Meadery in Navasota Texas.  Anyone familiar with the place will remember the original owner passed away and his son and daughter-in-law were running it. While stopping in a liquor store near the Exxon station on the corner of 105 and 1774 in Planterville that usually carried their products we were told TABC shut them down as they did not properly file to re-open (or something to that effect) so they were no longer producing but hoped to do so again in the future.  As another aside, that small store just north of the turnoff for the Texas Renaissance Faire in Plantersville has a few beer selections that might surprise people including Gulden Drak, Piraat and Petrus.

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