Do you know about our subterranean brewery bats? Below the building, we’ve got about 5,000 square feet of caverns with vaulted ceilings. They were were constructed in 1850 and used during the next 111 years when the building was a fully functional and operating brewery. Back then, there was no pasteurization and the beer had…
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Building a Display Wall (part 1)
Today on the blog: We’re creating a new vertical space in the gallery! While we desperately miss being open to the public on a daily basis, being closed does come with some small perks. Mainly, we can disassemble the gallery displays to do a messy project and not have much concern about the rooms being…
Porcelain Mugs
Hello there! As I hinted at in our last blog post, we’ve been making porcelain mugs again! And, I for one, am pretty jazzed about it. Porcelain, if I’m being open and honest, is sort of my class favorite. Don’t misunderstand me when I say that, I love stoneware too. I just love how smooth…
Slipping + Carving Bowls
Slipping and carving bowls? Sorta sounds bad, like they’re slipping off a shelf and then getting carved up like a Thanksgiving turkey or something. Don’t worry– Definitely not the case. Slip is what we apply our some of our pieces. Specifically, the ones that end up getting patterns carved into them. Hence the slipping and…
Bisque Firing in January
Hello again! If you’ve read the last several posts detailing the trays that were made and carved last week, you’ll see that today is chapter three for those puppies. Welcome to the next chapter– firing the bisque kiln. First (above), all the pots are walked, from the pottery studio, across and through the gallery, to…
Carving Time
All those trays you saw in the previous post, well, they got whisked away to Slippycarve town. Yes, that’s a real place. And we go there often. In fact, every piece of pottery that you see at Brewery Pottery that has our signature blue slip with a pattern carved into it, has made a journey…
Trays + Tumblers
Today (Thursday), the studio work day is brought to you by the letter “T”. Trays, tumblers, and hot tea! To be fair, the last several days have also been brought to you by the letter T, too. It’s been a very trayish and tumblery filled few days. The weather is chilly and it’s definitely the…
Monthly Mug Giveaway!
When we launched the website and our new email newsletter at the end of 2020 we decided to start a new feature of a “Monthly Mug Giveaway”. If you’re already a newsletter subscriber, you’ve certainly seen our posts about this. But if you’re new here (hi!), I’ll break it down (it’s not rocket science). At…
A Winter Wonderland
For a few days last week, Mineral Point was blanketed in a sea of foggy and frosty goodness. When the fog broke, the sky was a brightly colored brilliant blue and the frost remained throughout the day. It was truly breathtaking. We couldn’t stop running around the yard taking photos. Every place you looked was…
A Second Whirl
As it turns out, setting up a nice looking blog, that meshes well with our website is sort of harder than it seems it should be. Maybe not harder I guess, but time tedious and consuming for sure. But hey, we’re doing it. Ever so slowly. Our first post was almost 2 years ago. That…