Haywood welcomes a burgeoning brewery scene

(Excerpt from the Smoky Mountain News):

It’s noon on a Wednesday and Scott Peterson already has beer on the mind.

Brewmaster at the Tipping Point in downtown Waynesville, Peterson wanders behind the bar, down a narrow staircase and through a cool corridor to his basement laboratory. A mad scientist of sorts, he moves around the small space like a man with 10 hands and 10 legs, always checking temperatures, water levels, cleanliness and most all, the magic process coagulating within the large barrels he constantly mixes like a mysterious cauldron. Read more...