NC Brew interviews
Here are some recent interviews featuring John at Olde Mecklenburg Brewery and Oscar of Highland Brewing:
Highland and Olde Mecklenburg Brewery on WFAE
WFAE radio aired story about the rise of craft beer in North Carolina. They speak with John at Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, Oscar of Highland Brewing plus Julia Herz from the Brewers Association.
A few years ago, John Marrino was looking for a new gig after 18 years in the water treatment industry. Then one day, he read about a man brewing beer, and he started thinking about all the beer he used to drink when he lived in Germany.
“And I said ‘okay, I can kill two birds with one stone here,’” says Marrino, “I can solve the problem of not having fresh beer in Charlotte, and I can get the German beer that I miss. And so I decided to open a brewery.”
That was in 2006. Three years later, Marrino opened Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, replicating the German beer he loved.
Highland’s Oscar Wong
Highland’s Oscar Wong featured in businessnc.com
That Oscar P. Wong isn’t cool might well be among the most salient assets he brings to Highland Brewing Co. A 69-year-old engineer, the Asheville brewery’s owner and president spent much of his life in what many of his customers might consider a humdrum industry — electric utilities. His particular expertise was about as hip as an aging Buick: analyzing the safety of power plants and disposing of low-level radioactive waste. He wears the sort of ankle-high zip-up boots last regularly seen when Elvis played Vegas. When Highland’s young workers start blasting reggae or heavy metal, drowning out conversation, he shakes his head and gives a grandfatherly shrug. This is not a guy who does air guitar.
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