hopulist issue 4

That might sound like an obvious statement
for many, but what Jack is getting at is that
they both had an itch to try and turn this love
for beer into something bigger. Neither of the
pair were what they would classify as beer
geeks or home brewers – they were end users
who really enjoyed what was happening with
craft beer.
“It was a risk, leaving comfortable jobs on
decent money to try and make a business
in craft beer, but we were both up for the
challenge,” says Nick. After some discussion,
they settled on Brighton as the location to set
up in – they had both lived there at various
points, and perhaps more importantly, they
identified it as somewhere where a craft beer
business could thrive but where there wasn’t a
huge amount of activity at the time.
“If you’ll excuse the pun, we saw that
Brighton had a thirst for craft beer and we
thought we could help solve that problem,”
Jack explains.