![]() And now - and then so after art school, I actually ended up playing a lot of shows. You know back then like doing eight hours of drawing in a day like, “What the heck, that’s crazy” you know and now it’s like, “Oh, it’s regular.” It’s like, you know, preparing me for you know, what’s to come. I was so burnt out and I told myself after art school I'm like, “Man, I need a break.” And two years before that, my sophomore year, I started playing music and I found that it really helped me get through the rest of school, otherwise I just would have been freaking out like there was just so much - the workload was so like astounding, what they had you do and - but it’s good because it prepared me for what I’d be doing now. It’s kind of funny the sort of like the evolution of how I started to make like beer labels was actually going way back like in 1994, I had been doing - there was so much art that I had to do at art school for all these different projects and classes and everything. So, basically I grew up in southern Maine and then went to art school like after high school down in Baltimore and sort of like once I graduated from there. We’ll have links up on the site.ĭan: Yeah, yeah. So, tell me a little bit about yourself, you know, I read your bio, you know, it was on the website and for folks who want to check it out, you know,. Canvas - AJK: Yeah, it’s pretty cool.ĭan: Wow, that’s awesome. I’m not as tech savvy in that area, but it’s really funny you can see the blog post where they announce that they’re going to sell the bottles and people are asking why, you know, I thought you said we’ve never going to be able to, do that because then you can’t control it and you can just kind of see these small, you know, snapshots of the evolution of what is nowĭan: Like in advancements - you’re right.ġ6oz. And you can go back to their website, going back to 2007-2008, they take different web crawls I guess. It’s part of which is to storing of data and kind of historically - it’s good for live music and other entities, but they’ve what they call The Wayback Machine. Yeah, it’s pretty cool if you’ve never used it before there’s The Wayback Machine. I think it’s going to be something really special” and turns out it was, you know.ġ6oz. Like I just knew that every time I came in and visited them to talk about sketches or whatever, he was always like tinkering in the brew room like he was like, “man, we’re close, we’re close. And then eventually he asked me if I would do his first beer label, and he had no idea of the success that they would gain from it. You know, it’s like John like he was like every time I would - the first thing I did for him was a - what was meant to be just a coaster, they're open up the brewery and then they ended up using it on like their window and making shirts or something like that and making some other things. I think that you probably at the time didn’t think how much of a kind of epic can that would be, the Heady Topper Can.ĭan: Yeah, no idea. Canvas - AJK: And I think what you’ve done is pretty amazing. ![]() Sometimes it proves not to be the best tasting beer, but at least visually it looks pretty good before that moment.ġ6oz. Canvas - AJK: So the premises is I’m big into Craft beer and just think that the way the things are going recently with the advancement of canning and just really, the breweries explosions over the last couple of years that, one of my favorite things is the artwork. Canvas - AJK: I appreciate you’re taking the time to speak with me. You make good beer, but I’ll ask all my Stowe friends to avoid the place.16oz. ![]() ![]() I mean, what kind of crazy hostess power trip are we dealing with here?Īre there THAT MANY people lying about reservations to have a beer? Give me a break.Īfter she walked us over to a table she said “table reservations are for a strict 90 minutes- which we enforce”.Īt that point I’d had enough and we walked out, not a chance I’m ever drinking another Alchemist beer if that’s how customers are treated. I offered that we would show ID to prove who we are- at which point the hostess informed me that I was causing trouble by looking at her IPad. I have our name again.Īpparently she wasn’t happy I looked at her iPad and said “if the person who REALLY made that reservation shows up, they’re going to be upset!” ![]() Hostess was upset, put her hand over the list and asked again. I said “we have a reservation”- she asked for the name, I glanced at her IPad and said “it’s the top one”- and gave my wife’s name. When we walked in, we stopped at the hostess station. My wife made a reservation on a Wednesday afternoon. ![]()
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