Just a quick thanks to everyone that made this past weekend such a great one at Grain. Saturday finished up our July class, with six new beautiful boards coming out of the shop. We’re thankful to our students for staying for the premiere of Taylor Steele’s “Castles in the Sky” and for talking it up with our visitors about their experience during the week.

As the moon rose over the barn, the parking lot began to fill with people from all over town, even some who drove from Cape Cod. Corn was popping and cotton candy was being whipped up by the minute. Not a bad setting for a surf move premiere.

Sunday afternoon it was off to Novare Res in Portland, to have a few beers with Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione. Lots of what we’ve been doing with the great folks at Dogfish Head will be included in an episode of the soon-to-be-aired Discovery Channel show BREWED. In BREWED, Sam shows viewers the other side of the bottle, sharing the stories of beer sub-cultures as well as exploring life inside The Dogfish Head Brewery where many of their beers are flavored with wood – including cedar left over from our surfboard building!

It’s been a whirlwind couple days, but it’s the energy and passion that we take away from these days that keeps us moving forward and loving this place.