At university I studied a bachelor of
international hotel and tourism management
so it's nothing really to do with the brewing industry, had just got more
and more interested in it.
My brother I used to live in a small apartement in Toowong, which is a suburb close to the university of Queensland.
And we basically just made
beer in our basement save money and we
started off doing extract beers and just
sort of picking up on the small skills and
brewing and that sort of thing and just
getting more interested in it.
We actually converted our laundry into a
brewery essentially.
We used to have parties at the university where everyone would come over. And no one
would actually have to bring anything themselves, because we had floor to ceiling shelves in this laundry.
The Vinmonopol of Australia is called the Bottle-O for short, so we called it our bottle shop.
And that is sort of how we got started.
started with brewing in learning the
different aspects of brewing.
At the university I met my Norwegian wife. We'd been traveling
around Europe for five months in a
camper van and then we decided we needed to find some work to keep on going and
basically started to move back to Norway. When I came to Norway, I was given a
bottle of beer from a neighbor who borrowed a drill, and it just sort of picked up my
interest in brewing again
and we wanted to have recovered together
probably decide it's a small craft
microbrewery and we just sort of saw
that there was a gap in the market knows
very little of the market was taken up
with with Mark Croft so we decided to
jump on the bandwagon and opened a small
Bruins to build something up from from a
small abrasion
I'd saved up a couple of years money to
buy all the brewery equipment and we
sort of just bought equipment month by
month and sort of put it together in my
apartment once we had everything we
needed for the brewing equipment and
then looking for a place to set it up
stop growing with the system and
pointing out how it worked and start
developing some recipes was never
actually supposed to be the end up
working out better than we thought when
we moved in here we realize that maybe
it was actually suitable for the actual
breweries so we decided to fly through
license
and then went from the ones we were up
and running with just tried to support
ourselves blaze was a quite a small
start-up and we just basically be
investing in more comment is each time
we have enough money to buy you a bottle
or two trains of thought with naming the
brewery is pretty obvious chapter was a
lot of China said you know that's not
very it was kind of kidding around
brought the brewery or something to do
with your brother spot it's so tonight
down to one of the product that's a big
brother has nothing to do with being a
Brother Little Brother and the like that
even though I interpret this is that
they did it with the small library to
the large breweries betraying the fact
that we're the underdog to the larger
breweries so that's why we closed a
little brother the idea is saying this
all along and just as much larger global
industry which is a big problem brewing
industry not against them but you know
this small IT company that is doing
really high quality products refinancing
on it plus aspects of brain
three people running the brewery its
myself my brother Andrew good friends
Lachlan their parents traveled Europe
together funnily enough in and also
common injuries Craig though they were
colleagues and then and so I've known
the whole us we're not related but the
first time just to visit the second on
come here for a bit before I can't
ignore that I've been a fully qualified
electrician but I was about them since
2001 bow couple times a week but he you
know it's full time job monday to Sunday
I thought US vs new sales and marketing
but the labor law library be made it a
recipe capital K
do everything I studied architecture
integrated city and have a background in
September I basically what it takes for
the last ten years or so I look up to
this section of the brewery which
involves graphic design branding
marketing social media website design
anything that's kind of artistic so I'm
currently working as the bombing under
the new breed dog in Oslo
head brewer and most are responsible for
taking care of all the accounts and
paperwork also do deliveries along with
the Oakland so basically with three
equal partners in the business
