Writer: Jamil Zainasheff

I think most brewers would agree, a beer’s life begins the moment the yeast are finished with fermentation.

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

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?

We nearly didn’t get to brew out a second batch of beer.

OK, so the long awaited day arrived and we brewed our first batch of Heretic beer.

In a way, I can’t believe we will be brewing our first batch in just a couple days.

There are a lot of little and not so little things to do before your brewery is ready to produce beer.

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.

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

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.

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.