{"product_id":"liam-oso-negro-americano-sudadera-unisex-de-impresion-integral","title":"Liam · American black bear · Unisex sweatshirt","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-short-desc\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiam, the craft brewer from West Asheville, on a unisex sweatshirt with his portrait printed edge to edge. Made for the long days of wood stove, dark beer, and ten hours of sleep. A piece that works at home, on the street, and in the workshop. By Yago Partal for Animal Kinhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- LONG_DESC --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Liam sweatshirt carries his portrait printed edge to edge: the thick knit sweater with skulls in fuchsia and orange, the turquoise neckline, the Fair Isle motifs on a dark background. The print is full coverage, across the whole garment, and what you get is a piece of clothing with an artistic image that looks nothing like a logo or a centered graphic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiam is an American black bear who brews craft beer in West Asheville, North Carolina. His brewery occupies an old carpentry workshop and runs on used equipment, local ingredients when he can get them, and a part-time helper. But what defines Liam as much as the beer is how he inhabits the year — a cycle with two clear poles that shapes everything he does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## October at fourteen hours\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fall, Liam works fourteen hours a day. It's harvest season, peak production, festivals and a full taproom. Four batches, two seasonal beers, an order for the street next door. The workshop smells of hops and sweat. He sleeps six hours. Eats standing up. The black bear's hyperphagia — that period when the body needs to build up stores before the cold arrives — translates into a productive hyperactivity that leaves room for almost nothing else. When November comes, the tanks are full, the bottles labeled, and Liam starts slowing down without anyone asking him to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## February with the Jotul stove\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn winter the rhythm reverses. The taproom empties. The tourists leave. Asheville draws in. And Liam enters his own torpor: he produces less, goes out less, sleeps ten hours if he can, turns the heating down and settles in by the wood-burning Jotul stove he restored himself. He cancels plans. Push him to socialize in January and he gets irritable, clumsy. He makes dark, heavy beer for the few who come through the workshop in those months.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis generosity in fall — the beers he leaves on porches, the favors with tools, the extra orders for neighboring bars — has the same root as his retreat in February. The body runs the show. Work follows the body, relationships follow work, and winter compresses everything to the minimum necessary: stove, dark beer, silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## Dark beer for those who come\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiam's winter beers are different from the peak-season ones. Denser, slower in fermentation, made with sourwood honey and spruce bark he gathered months earlier in the Blue Ridge Mountains forests. He makes them for the few who keep coming when the city slows down: a handful of neighbors, a local bar that keeps the tap open all year, the people who know that January in West Asheville has its own rhythm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe says he doesn't care about reviews, but he reads them every night before sleeping. He says he's fine alone. The winter solitude stretches a little longer each year. The first warm day in March he opens all the workshop windows, pulls a chair outside, and sits with his face in the sun for five minutes before starting work. It's the only ritual he admits to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe full story of Liam — how he got to Asheville, where he learned to brew, why he opened his own workshop — is in his [biography](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/animal-kinhood\/liam\/).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## A sweatshirt for the torpor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis sweatshirt works for that: for the months when you slow down without asking permission. For mornings with the stove on, black coffee, and no rush. For the street when the cold calls for layers and you don't feel like thinking about what to wear. Liam's portrait covers the whole garment, with that thick-knit texture and skulls that say quite a lot about who he is without needing to explain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe print is full coverage: it covers sleeves, body, and front. What you see in the photo is what arrives. For more sweatshirts from the collection, see [Animal Kinhood objects](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/objects\/).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSizing questions? All the fit and construction information is in **Size guide** and in **Fabric, fit, and construction**. Made to order, so there's no leftover stock: each piece is produced when you request it. The operational details — timelines, exchanges, issues — are in **Shipping and returns**.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yago Partal Studio","offers":[{"title":"2XS","offer_id":57727787761989,"sku":"8599761_33963","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XS","offer_id":57727787794757,"sku":"8599761_33964","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"S","offer_id":57727787827525,"sku":"8599761_33965","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":57727787860293,"sku":"8599761_33966","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":57727787893061,"sku":"8599761_33967","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":57727787925829,"sku":"8599761_33968","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":57727787958597,"sku":"8599761_33969","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":57727787991365,"sku":"8599761_33970","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"4XL","offer_id":57727788024133,"sku":"8599761_33971","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"5XL","offer_id":57727788056901,"sku":"8599761_33972","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"6XL","offer_id":57727788089669,"sku":"8599761_33973","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/7830\/8677\/files\/liam_ak-apparel-unisex-sweater-000_e8df14f6-f0c9-49c8-b602-fdfaa6fd11ec.webp?v=1781808548","url":"https:\/\/checkout.yagopartal.com\/products\/liam-oso-negro-americano-sudadera-unisex-de-impresion-integral","provider":"Yago Partal · Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}