Brew Practitioners believe there’s happiness in a beer garden
Brew Practitioners staff with owner Cannon-Eckerle at left. Contributed photo/Tanzi Cannon-Eckerle
Published: 7/19/2017 5:05:55 PM
The long-time friends who run Brew Practitioners, a majority women-owned brewery in Florence, spent years chatting and researching the idea. But after a visit to Munich’s Oktoberfest in 2014, they explain on the brewery’s website, “we were ready to jump right in — there is just too much happiness in a beer garden to not own one!”
Tanzi Cannon-Eckerle, one of the founders, has spent the last two years hard at work brewing while renovating a 150-year-old building — formerly the headquarters of the Florence Sewing Machine Company — into a hangout and hosting space, complete with lofty ceilings, a long wooden bar and exposed brick walls, and an outdoor patio.