{"product_id":"liam-oso-negro-americano-taza-con-interior-de-color","title":"Liam · American black bear · Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-short-desc\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA ceramic mug with the portrait of Liam, the American black bear, and a blue interior. For coffee alone, first thing in the morning, when the workshop is still cold. Two sizes. Made to order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- LONG_DESC --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Liam mug is white ceramic with a blue interior and his portrait printed on the outside: the knit sweater with skull motifs in fuchsia and orange, the turquoise neckline, the expression of someone who has been thinking about something for a while and isn't going to say it. Liam is an American black bear, a craft brewer in West Asheville, North Carolina. A mug is the first thing he touches in the morning, before opening the workshop and before talking to anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## Forty jars with dates\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Liam's kitchen there are between forty and fifty preserve jars on the open shelves. Each one has a handwritten label with the date, origin, and contents. Sourwood jam from last fall. Pickles from two summers ago. Seasonal berry compote. Each jar with its story and its date. He never opens them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey haven't been forgotten. They're there, organized, with their readable dates, and Liam looks at them from time to time the way you look over a collection you don't plan to use. The act of preserving matters more to him than the act of consuming. The sourwood jam is still perfect, the hermetic seal holds, the label says October 14th. He could open it tomorrow. He won't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething similar happens with the recipes he notes in his notebook, with the beers he keeps for the cold months, with the voice memos he sometimes replays two or three times before answering. Liam keeps the things that matter to him. He organizes them. He labels them. And then he doesn't touch them, as if the order were enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## A notebook that doesn't leave\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe notebook is spiral-bound, its pages stained with hops and damp fingers, notes written in a hurry between batches. It holds every recipe Liam has tried since he was seventeen, when a retired cook taught him to ferment in the Smokies. The failures are in there too. Especially the failures: the first undrinkable beer, the second that tasted like vinegar, the third that the cook tried and said \"tasted like something.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe notes follow no editorial order. There are arrows connecting a spring recipe to a correction made six months later. Crossings-out. Ingredients written in the margins in small letters. One page has a round stain from the bottom of a glass. Another has a phone number with no name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe has never rewritten it clean. He never lends it. If someone asks for a recipe, he dictates it from memory while he works, hands busy at the fermentation tanks and eyes on the thermometer. But the notebook doesn't leave the kitchen. It's the only thing he'd save in a fire — he said it once, quietly, and he hasn't said it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Liam's tote bag](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/animal-kinhood\/liam\/) carries the same portrait. If you're looking for something to pair with the mug in daily use, it's a good match: same aesthetic, different format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## What you keep without opening\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiam says he doesn't care about the brewery reviews. He reads them every night before bed, on his phone, sitting on the sofa with the Jotul stove going and a glass of the latest stout he's made. He doesn't comment. He doesn't reply. But he reads them all, one by one, and sometimes he stares at the screen after the last one without unlocking anything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe says he's fine alone. But when the taproom empties and the tourists leave, the solitude shows in small things. He turns the heating down. Cancels plans. Makes dark, heavy beer for the few people who come through. The porch chair doesn't come out until March arrives and the first warm day takes him outside for five minutes with his face in the sun before he starts work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mug is white on the outside and blue inside. For black coffee first thing, when the workshop is still cold and the whole day is still ahead. Material and finish in **Material and finish**. Size and capacity in **Size and capacity**. Made to order. Timelines and returns policy in **Shipping and returns**. Origin and production in **Origin, production and availability**.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## The first cup of the day\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Liam's full biography](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/animal-kinhood\/liam\/) has what only fits here in part: the Smokies, the brewery in the old carpentry workshop, the real bear in the alley, the neighbor on the porch. Forty jars with dates. A hop-stained notebook that doesn't leave. And the first cup of the day, when everything is quiet and the questions are just yours.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yago Partal Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57727780487493,"sku":"5497358_11050","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/7830\/8677\/files\/liam_ak-mug-000.webp?v=1776696625","url":"https:\/\/checkout.yagopartal.com\/products\/liam-oso-negro-americano-taza-con-interior-de-color","provider":"Yago Partal · Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}