{"id":676,"date":"2008-08-27T10:24:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T14:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2008-08-27T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T14:24:56","slug":"pop-the-cap-plans-to-start-filling-the-kegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/pop-the-cap-plans-to-start-filling-the-kegs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop the Cap plans to start filling the kegs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seems like a logical next step.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not familiar with this group, but we’ve discussed this prohibition related issue a couple of times on the blog [With that Free the Hops movement in Alabama].<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Beer lobbyist group disbands
\nFounder Sean Wilson has built network of brewers, will open his own brewery<\/strong>
\nBy Sue Stock <\/em><\/p>\n

After 5 1\/2 years heading a beer industry advocacy group called Pop the Cap, Sean Wilson of Chapel Hill is disbanding the nonprofit group and moving on to a new beer-related venture.
\nWilson started Pop the Cap in February 2003 to lobby the state legislature to drop the law capping the alcohol content of beer at 6 percent.<\/p>\n

In August 2005, the group succeeded, when new legislation went into effect and cleared the way for craft beers — speciality beers brewed in small batches — to have higher alcohol content.<\/p>\n

Since then, Wilson, 37, shifted the group’s focus to improving the state’s beer culture and raising awareness of craft beer, dubbing his new effort Pop the Cap 2.0.<\/p>\n

But, “it turned into a hobby, and I’m not a hobby kind of guy,” he says.<\/p>\n

Besides changing the state law and offering North Carolina brewers more flexibility, Wilson and Pop the Cap connected the state’s brewers into a network that didn’t exist before, said Robert Poitras, owner of the Carolina Brewery, with locations in Chapel Hill and Pittsboro.<\/p>\n

“He was really our quarterback,” Poitras said. “It’s been good for the whole North Carolina beer scene.”<\/p>\n

Now Wilson will help out with the newly founded N.C. Brewers Guild and is working on opening his own brewery in Durham.<\/p>\n

Wilson’s establishment, called Fullsteam Brewery, will focus on “Southern agricultural brewing,” using local ingredients and grains.<\/p>\n

Though a specific site has not yet been selected, Wilson said the brewery could open within nine months.<\/p>\n

“There’s still a lot of work to do [for the beer industry in North Carolina], but we need to be more politically organized, and I can’t do that,” he said. “I’m just a beer fan. It’s time to move on.”<\/p>\n

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