but i m alive! i am a covid survivor. what county executive dr. page did yesterday was illegal. i hope the council recognizes this, and votes accordingly. okay. there is a lot going on there. this was last night at a county council meeting in st. louis. members of the community, like that lady yelling about her very clean bananas, were there to ask the city council to repeal a new-mask mandate, enacted by the county executive, dr. paige. and if you thought the fruit lady was something, dozens of people showed up just like her. the county council meeting went on for hours. and the most shocking thing about all of this is that it worked. last night, the st. louis county council voted, 5-2, to reverse the brand new mask mandate in the county. enacted in response to the dangerous-delta variant, that s ripping through the region. the county executive, who issued the mandate, said that the council s vote was meaningless,
county executive, dr. page. and if you thought the fruit lady was something, dozens of people showed up just like her. the county council meeting went on for hours. and the most shocking thing about all of this is that it worked. last night, the st. louis county council voted, 5-2, to reverse the brand-new mask mandate in the county. enacted in response to the dangerous delta variant, that s ripping through the region. the county executive, who issued the mandate, said that the council s vote was meaningless, and that the mask rule remains in effect for st. louis county. but there s a fight in the courts, as well. the republican attorney general in missouri has filed a lawsuit, asking a judge to overturn mask mandates in st. louis county and the adjoining city of st. louis once and for all. new covid cases are skyrocketing not just in st. louis right now but the entire state of missouri.
It was mid-summer 2020, and Kyle Carbaugh had a choice. He could either continue to brew and can beer for distribution to the Denver-area liquor stores that were demanding it during the rush for stay-at-home drinking, or he could focus on making a new line of pulpy, somewhat controversial fruit beers that were selling out within minutes at Greeley’s Wiley Roots Brewing, which Carbaugh and his wife, Miranda, founded in 2013.
“In a pandemic, how do you choose between being able to make money in the taproom or satisfying orders from your distributor?” he asks. “We wanted to do both.”
So that s exactly what Carbaugh is doing. In early December, Wiley Roots took delivery of a huge new thirty-barrel brewhouse that will replace the seven-barrel system that has done the job for the past several years. Only a few Colorado breweries own systems this big, and most are among the state’s largest beer makers.