Tractor Brewing hopes to start firing on all cylinders again in 2021

The challenge of maintaining even a single brewery taproom has been tremendous during 2020. The challenge of maintaining five locations, including a production-and-packaging facility, has been downright monumental.

In the face of everything 2020 has thrown at it, Tractor Brewing is still standing. Not all of its locations have lasted through the year, but on the whole, the brewery has survived, as I learned via a Zoom interview with co-owner/brewmaster David Hargis and events and marketing director Jeremy Kinter for our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series.

We kicked things off by going back to the before times, also known as January through mid-March.

“I’ll be honest, I can’t even remember January or February,” Hargis said. “We were busy, though. We had sort of gotten to a situation where I didn’t have to be in the brewery for a

…