Confusion is Craft — The Courtyard Brewery in New Orleans, LA

This is long but a very good article about CB and Scott, where NO was when he got here and where we are. Maybe some baws in some of these photos.

“IIt’s slowly creeping up on the edge of unbearably hot—though it’ll certainly get there in a couple hours—on a steamy Friday New Orleans morning in July, and I’m watching a guy using a shaky-arse ladder to climb on top of a brewery’s shipping-container-esque restroom so he can fix its busted air conditioning system. His foot slips a bit, the ladder wobbles, and a few gasps fill the room before he steadies himself and scramble-crawls to his intended destination.

“Welcome to Courtyard Brewery,” Scott Wood says, shaking his head with a bemused and exhausted relief. “We’re a frickin’ mess.”

“Wood speaks with a particular brand of shrug-it-off honesty, displaying an amount of confident sincerity that’s refreshingly frank, “truthiness” in its native form. He’ll says things like, “I love Saison, but we can’t seem to make one that’s worth a shite,” adding an admirable smirk after, as if to say, “We’ll get there, though. Or maybe we won’t.”

He’s sweat-soaked in a t-shirt, board shorts, and flip flops when we talk, and he kicks off his footwear as we get deeper into conversation. He started selling beer at 21, but didn’t drink until he was 30. ”

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