Wayne Wambles Gets His Own Brewery

Dear Client: Longtime brewmaster Wayne Wambles now has a brewery of his own. The former Cigar City brewmaster inked an agreement over the weekend to purchase UpCountry Brewing in Brevard, North Carolina, realizing a goal that he has held for decades. Indeed, owning a brewery is “something I’ve been wanting to do, probably since the mid to late ‘90s,” Wayne told All About Beer this week. “But the opportunity never presented itself.” You may recall that Wayne was impacted by