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Eagle, food writer, chef and fermenter, Skypes in with advice on making an intercontinental lunch, but no recipes.

And then they were about to start dumping it into a fermenter.

Downtown’s nanobrewery, The Friendly Fermenter, ran a mug club raffle to benefit the businesses.

Each morning, Gatesman is up by 4 a.m. slinging back coffee and reading or working on the computer to enjoy the quiet at home before going into The Friendly Fermenter, where nearly seven hours of brewing or daunting piles of administrator duties await.

Gatesman said the homebrew shop in The Friendly Fermenter saw an uptick in customers as most hobby shops have seen during the pandemic, but the 30% of revenue it accounted for at its peak is incomparable to the loss of drink sales because homebrewers are sporadic shoppers.