The State and Main Podcast | Episode 9 W/ Sean Stevens (White Squirrel Brewery)

Well, I moved back here 20 years ago.

My wife's from here, Sarah.

And so she got pregnant with Silas.

And we were in Danville at the time.

She's the guy having a baby in Danville.

So we got here.

And then I just kept looking around going, how in the world do we not have a brewery here? You know, I'm like, the town this size, and we did not have one brewery.

Because

by this point, Hopps was gone, correct? Hopps was

gone, way gone.

They had the hepatitis situation, and they were gone.

And at this point, Hopps was so ahead of its time.

At this point, they had opened up in Denver.

They had about 40 locations.

And at this point, they were down to two locations.

The one in Denver and the one in Chattanooga, I think.

And was the hepatitis thing, was that actually local? It was local.

Okay.

So it was, from what I understand, it was way overreaction, but when you hear hepatitis, you ain't going to get there.

So, yeah, it was...

It was a show killer.

But they had already started shutting down.

Because what Hopps was, was it was a brewery.

The brewery was right in the middle of the restaurant.

Oh,