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Not long ago, it was a special treat to find great craft beer. You could travel extensively without finding any craft beer and often what you did find was just OK.

I don’t hide the fact that I am not a fan of pouring beer at public beer festivals.

I’m not sure exactly what I was thinking, but somehow I had this idea in my head that I’d take all my risk up front in getting Heretic off the ground and once it was past a certain point, there would be a lot less
risk. Ah, poor, simple fool.

We haven’t brewed a drop of beer yet, but we’ve already run out of the hops we need to brew the beers we are planning to brew.

We’ve been spending a lot of time lately scrubbing some used kegs we bought.

When you think about starting a brewery, you know you will need kegs to package some portion of your beer, but that is about as far as the thinking goes.

Even before I began the process of opening Heretic Brewing Company, homebrewers would ask me what it took to open a brewery.

It all seems so simple on paper. You brew the beer, stick it in some packaging, then sell it to the thirsty hoards. How hard could it be? It isn’t rocket science, right?