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Two Monks Brewing Co. looks to mark 5th anniversary in Akron this year
Updated 5:30 AM;
AKRON, Ohio – Breweries keep popping up in neighborhoods, small towns and urban pockets throughout every cranny of Ohio. Some with fanfare, some with screaming social-media presence. And others, like Two Monks Brewing Co., settle in comfortably and quiet.
Steve Prough and Patrick Armstead – the business partners behind the Akron brewery - took a love of home brewing, considered locations, and landed in a residential south-side neighborhood. This year, Two Monks will mark its fifth anniversary.
“Well, we decided we were just going to hide from the public,” Prough joked.
It looked like a scene out of a zombie apocalypse movie.
The order was initially set to expire April 6, but extended to May 1 as COVID-19 continued to spread.
Some protesters carried American flags, others wore Donald Trump hats and one held a sign that said, “The Cure is Worse than the Virus.”
Few wore masks, even though the CDC and state officials had changed course and said everyone should wear a mask in public because science showed masks were one of the best ways to stop the spread of the virus.
DeWine, who said we were at “war” with the pandemic, repeatedly emphasized that Ohioans were in the fight together.