{"id":19832,"date":"2020-06-20T10:35:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T15:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=19832"},"modified":"2020-07-02T11:46:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T16:46:47","slug":"now-open-young-blood-beer-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/now-open-young-blood-beer-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Blood Beer Company is now open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honestly, it\u2019s a little amazing the Young Blood Beer Company<\/a> was able to exist at all.<\/p>\n

Setting aside the usual roadblocks faced by new small businesses, the combination brewpub and cocktail tasting room was slated to open<\/a> this spring during the coronavirus pandemic\u2019s height. And had their planning not been so far along, they may not have opened at all.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

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Photos by Chris Lotten<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/span>\u201cWe were like 75% of the way through,\u201d says co-owner Tom Dufek. \u201cWe had hired a bunch of our team and managers in mid-February to early March. Somebody\u2019s first day was the day after all the bars and restaurants shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n

It would have been a major disappointment for Dufek, a veteran of Madison\u2019s bar and restaurant scene and founder of the Sun Prairie-based Plain Spoke Cocktail Company<\/a>. Especially considering the ambition involved in Young Blood.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

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\"Young<\/p>\n<\/span>Young Blood occupies a familiar spot on King Street, making its home at Ancora<\/a>\u2019s former location. However, the new set-up scarcely resembles the old coffee shop. The space has been gutted and redesigned into a sort-of interactive Discovery Center for drinkers. Bar patrons get a bird\u2019s eye view of basement fermentation tanks, while visitors to Plain Spoke\u2019s second floor tasting room will experience a sort of cocktail test kitchen.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

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\"Young<\/p>\n<\/span>\u201cThere\u2019s already a lot of great breweries in Madison,\u201d says Dufek. \u201cIf we were going to do something, we wanted to look at it through a different lens and think about it in a different way. We didn\u2019t want to do something that everybody\u2019s already done.\u201d<\/p>\n

To accomplish this, Dufek joined with a super team of Wisconsin brewing professionals<\/a>. Young Blood\u2019s brewmaster Kyle Gregorash has done time with both Hacienda<\/a> and Door County Brewing<\/a>. Craft Beer Partners<\/a> owner Billy DuPlanty rounds out the management crew. Unlike many indie breweries, who apply a laser-like focus to beer creation with hospitality often playing second fiddle, Young Blood wants the dine-in experience at the forefront.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

\"young<\/p>\n<\/span>\u201cI\u2019ve been to breweries before where I just feel like something is lacking,\u201d Dufek says. \u201cA brewery is essentially a manufacturer. But I really wanted to think of it from a hospitality perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

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\"Young<\/p>\n<\/span>While the Plain Spoke tasting room is still under construction, Young Blood\u2019s street-level brewpub officially opened on June 12. There you can try beers with truly incredible names<\/a> \u2014 like a farmhouse ale called \u201cEveryone Looks Like Guy Fieri\u201d \u2014 and tuck into the bar\u2019s lovingly cultivated menu. Dufek isn\u2019t wrong when he says Madison is full of great breweries. But with Young Blood Beer Company, he and his partners have created a warmly inviting variation on a beloved formula.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

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Honestly, it\u2019s a little amazing the Young Blood Beer Company was able to exist at all. 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