The Beginning

In March of 2010, two old friends stood gathered around a pot of boiling wort discussing how they could make enough beer to keep up with the demand of their friends.  After many hours and just as many empty beers, the discussion turned into dreaming about the possibility of making beer and selling it to local bars, hopefully for a small profit.

Intrigued by the idea and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, they set off on researching the feasibility of the project.  Spending evenings and weekends reading everything on home brewing forums, articles, and trade magazines about the craft brewing industry.

After a couple of months of reading, they started to realize that their idea of starting a small brewery was becoming a conceptually impossible idea to do own their own.

Although discouraged, they did see an underlying theme to it all. Lots of people have the goal to open a brewery but, not the means to do it on their own.  Armed with this new found knowledge, they began to seek out ways how many people with the same goal could work together to accomplish making it a reality. While researching different business models they came across the definition of a cooperative business. A cooperative business is one that is built by a group of people that share a common goal.