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James Priest

Blender, Founder, Brewer

Favorite Child? // Locus Solus II

Favorite Other Brewery? // De Dolle

Favorite Off-Flavor? // Oxidation

Representative Vinyl Bar-set

  • Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers

  • Makaya McCraven - In These Times

  • Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart

  • Qwanqwa - Volume Two

  • Panda Bear - Person Pitch

  • The Cars - [S/T]

  • Tuneyards - Whokill

  • Thundercat - Apocalypse

  • Alex G - God Save The Animals

Melissa Ducommun Priest, PhD

Researcher, Documentarian, Founder

Favorite Child? // A Ghost Is Born

Favorite Other Brewery? // Forest & Main

Favorite Off-Flavor? // Caprylic

Representative Vinyl Bar-set

  • ABBA - Oro: Grandes Éxitos

  • Jenny Lewis - On The Line

  • Stromae - Racine Carrée

  • Bots - Wie Zwijgt Stemt Toe

  • Santigold - Master Of My Make-Believe

  • Whitney - Light Upon the Lake

  • David Byrne - The Knee Plays

  • Punch Brothers - The Phosphorescent Blues

Mitch Montealegre

Designer, Audiovisualizer, Leveler

Favorite Child? // A Ghost Is Born

Favorite Other Brewery? // Allagash

Favorite Off-Flavor? // Diacetyl

Representative Vinyl Bar-set

  • Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden

  • John Abercrombie - Timeless

  • Deerhoof - La Isla Bonita

  • David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

  • mewithoutYou - Ten Stories

  • James Blake - [S/T]

  • ELO - A New World Record

  • Anderson.Paak - Malibu

 

Emeritus Authors

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Tom Frenchu

Cellarer, Brewer, Solver

Favorite Child? // Berliner Messe: Sanctus (2016)

Favorite Other Brewery? // Sierra Nevada

Favorite Off-Flavor? // Phenolic

Representative Vinyl Bar-set

  • Julian Lynch - Mare

  • Wilco - A.M.

  • Courtney Barnett - A Sea Of Split Peas

  • Screaming Females - All At Once

  • Titus Andronicus - The Airing Of Grievances

  • Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret

  • Dan Deacon - America

  • Lucy Dacus - Historian

  • Yo La Tengo - I Can Feel The Heart Beating As One

Amy Rodriguez

Curator, Forager, Illuminator

Favorite Child? // Noyaux

Favorite Other Brewery? // Scratch

Favorite Off-Flavor? // Lightstruck

Representative Vinyl Bar-set

  • Sudan Archives - Sink

  • Danny Thompson, Ketama, Toumani Diabate - Songhai

  • Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me

  • Dolly Parton - Jolene

  • Taj Mahal - The Real Thing

  • John Lee Hooker - Live At Soledad Prison

  • Ngozi Family - Day Of Judgment

  • Beck - Odelay

  • J Dilla - Donuts