Ever since Pensacola’s Odd Colony Brewing Co. was launched by childhood friends and now co-owners Brett Schweigert and Blake Foster in 2019, the principle has remained the same: everything is done with purpose.
This intentionality is visible in the local artists’ designs on their beer cans and the old animal bones adorning the beer taps in their downtown brewery .
Now, the intention will be visible in the hand-planted trees, wood-carved menu and campfire-inspired smoked mussels in their newest location, The Burrow, slated to open in mid-February in East Hill’s old Sacred Heart Hospital.
“I always say we do everything the hard way when it comes to brewing,” Foster said. “Brett will drive a van (that we borrow from Big Jerk) so that once a year we’ll pick up 2,000 pounds of scuppernong grapes from Mississippi and then we’ll process them for 12 hours a day for seven to 10 days. You could just buy a bucket of juice from somewhere and the customer maybe wouldn’t even know … but we definitely feel like it translates to a better product.”