Build Me A Brewery

The first part of series is titled Meet The Brewer, where, I will be meeting with Co-Founders and Head Brewers from 6 Sydney breweries, to get their stories, insights and advice.

In today’s episode I had the pleasure of being able to sit down with an absolute character of the Craft Beer scene, Pat McInerney one of the Co-Founders of Willie the Boatman out in St Peters.

It was great to listen to Pat share his and other Co-fo...

We continue with the Meet The Brewer Series, where we sit down with Co-Founders and Head Brewers from 6 Sydney breweries, to get their stories, insights and advice.

Today’s episode I am out at in Sydney’s Inner West again meeting with Founder of Wayward Brewing Peter Phillip.

Peter is a well known figure within the brewing community especially in Sydney’s Inner West. He formed the Inner West Brewers Association back in 2017 in a push...

We continue with the Meet The Brewer Series, where I sit down with Co-Founders and Head Brewers from 6 Sydney breweries, to get their stories, insights and advice.

In today’s episode, I sit down with Managing Director Simon Osborn and Head Brewer Addy Fitter from Rocks Brewing Company out in Alexandria. 

This was such a great and informative chat with both of these blokes, who have years and years of collective experience in the brew...

In today’s episode, I sit down with Head Brewer Dan Shaw from the Australian Brewery out in Rouse Hill, Sydney’s North West.

Dan joined the Australian back in 2017, learning and succeeding from well-known figure in the industry Neal Cameron who was involved in the initial set up and commissioning of the brewery.

Dan’s roots to the brewing industry came from working in the retail and hospitality industry, working for the Colossimo fam...

Part 5 of the  Meet The Brewer Series, where we sit down with Co-Founders and Head Brewers from local Sydney breweries, to get their stories, insights and advice.

In today’s episode, I sit down with Co-Founder Glenn Wignall from The Grifter Brewing Co in Marrickville. 

Glenn & co-founders Matt King & Trent Evans began their journey into the craft brewery scene by bouncing around the Inner West doing Gypsy brewing, fine tuning...

The final instalment of the Meet The Brewer Series. I head out to Alexandria to meet with Co-Founder James Harvey, AKA Harvs from Yullis Brews.

Originating back in 2014 out of a vegetarian restaurant in Surry Hills, Harvs and Co-Founder Karl Cooney immersed themselves into the commercial brewing industry by gypsy brewing all over Sydney and creating a cult following for their beers. The success of their gyspy brewing days ...

We now move into our topic specific segments of the podcast series, and a very early consideration in your brewery building journey should be considering how you are going to raise the necessary finance & capital for it.

In this episode I briefly cover some financial options available to aspiring brewer owners and entrepreneurs including Home Equity Loans and Angel Investing.

The interview that follows is my ...

This is Part 2 of the Finance & Capital Raising segment of the series. 

This episode I chat with Jason Baylis from Red Windows Capital who specialises in equipment finance for the Brewery & Winery industries. 

This is another interesting option to explore when it comes to accessing much needed capital when starting out with the building of your brewery. The purchasing of your brewery equipment such as a brewhouse, fermentatio...

We now move onto our Small Business & Accounting considerations when it comes to not only starting & running a brewery, but essential advice that carries principles that can be applied to the running of any successful small business. 

Brewing is only a small part of it all. And therefore, I wanted to sit down with business & accounting savvy experts related to the brewing industry who can share some insights on best ways...

We now move onto our Small Business & Accounting considerations when it comes to not only starting & running a brewery, but essential advice that carries principles that can be applied to the running of any successful small business. 

Brewing is only a small part of it all. And therefore, I wanted to sit down with business & accounting savvy experts related to the brewing industry who can share some insights on best ways...

We now have a look at a very important and often very confusing topic when it comes to opening and running a brewery and that is Brewery Licensing & Government Compliance.  

Part 1 of our 3 episode segment is a sit down with Ben Teseorieo from CPS Planning. I was put onto Ben from Glenn Wignall from the Grifter who highly recommended Ben and his firm of experienced Towners Planners services.

They have a wealth of exper...

Part 2 of our 3 episode segment on Brewery Licensing & Government Compliance. Today’s episode I chat with Russel Steele from RSA Liquor Professionals. Russell has many years’ experience working both sides of the Liquor & Hospitality industry, with 9 years working as a State Licensing regulator and 10 years working in and managing licensed premises in QLD and Northern Territory.

In our chat, Russell outlines and explains in m...

Part 3 and the final episode of the Brewery Licensing & Government Compliance segment.  

In this episode I managed to line up a chat with Mayor Darcy Bryne from the Inner West Council. Darcy, a craft beer enthusiast, has been a big advocate for the craft beer scene that has sprung up in Sydney’s Inner West for the past 10 years. He and other contributors have played a very big role in lobbying for better regulations ac...

This is a massive 4 part segment that features some big and well known names within the brewing industry in Australia who share a wealth of knowledge for aspiring brewery owners to consider when planning their brewery build with a focus on quality.

Our first episode of the segment, I sit down with Neal Cameron from Brewtique. Now Neal’s name has come up multiple times on this podcast so far, so it was great to finally line up a time...

In Part 2 of the Brewery Consulting & Quality Management Segment,  I chat with well known figure in the brewing community Steve Hendo from Rockstar Brewer. If you haven’t heard of Steve Hendo, he famously made his name in the brewing community as the founder of the BrewCult brand. Hendo did the gyspy brewing model for many years and built a massive cult following with his beers eventually developing a big core range exciting be...

Part 3 of the Brewery Consulting & Quality Management segment, I chat with Technical Managers Dan McCulloch or VB as he is known as in the Brewing Community and Richard Chamberlain both from the Lallemand Brewing Division. 

In this chat we talk all things Quality and the important considerations that brewery owners both new and seasoned need to think about to ensure that they are producing a high quality beer product a...

Part 4 and the final episode of the Brewery Consulting & Quality Management segment, I chat with Pulkit Agrawal or PK as he mostly goes by, who is Founder & CEO of the 5th Ingredient. 

A topic that I never considered when planning this podcast about building a brewery, Beer30 is simply a Brewery Data Management software that helps breweries improve quality & efficiency with their brewing operations by replacing paper log...

We now move into a much-anticipated segment of the podcast series, and that is Brewery Equipment Sourcing. Another 4-episode segment that includes conversations with a Brewery Consultants, Equipment Brokers & Manufacturers & Installers based here in Australia and China.

Our first episode of the segment, I sit down with Neil Playfoot from Asian Beer Network. Neil has over 20 years industry experience working in both brewpubs ...

In this episode I chat with John Gonzales from Bespoke Brewing Solutions. Originally from Austin, Texas, and at the age of 24 back in 2007 he found himself relocating to China within the IT & Logistics space. During this time he found himself occasionally supplying Stainless steel growlers and soon began building some good connections with people within the brewing industry. In 2014, John started Bespoke Brewing Solutions along...