Award-winning brewer switches gears at Hollow Spirits Distillery

The last time any of us talked to Mick Hahn, he had just taken over the position of head brewer at Tractor Wells Park, having just left Turtle Mountain a few months after winning the first Great American Beer Festival gold medal in the venerable brewpub’s long history.

Then, poof! Covid-19 came along, and soon that new job was a former job, too.

“Last spring, when the pandemic hit, Tractor sent everyone home except for Skye (Devore) and David (Hargis), pretty much,” Hahn said. “They went down to a skeleton crew, and (then) they started bringing people back. I was the most recent on and the highest salary, so I agreed to stay back for a while, as long as I could. By September, six months home, I told them that I realized I wasn’t returning. I continued to stay at home and do what I could there, work on myself a bit.”

As luck would have it, just a few blocks a

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