The Brew Chief -

While I studied at the Okanagan School of Business in Kelowna, BC, it was the evening’s self-guided beer education that taught me how to brew. I was fresh out of high school, so my friends and I were not quite old enough to buy beer yet, forcing us to brew our own in my dorm room. My third year of college was spent abroad in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, from where I travelled many countries in search of the perfect pint, including a pilgrimage to the hallowed Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. The brewing continued after returning home for my fourth year, except that it moved from the college dorms to a cramped basement we called “The Stoutery” (hints at the beer style we brewed). The humility has remained since those modest first batches, but the thirst for quality has grown. ------- The Brewery -

The idea to put a microbrewery in Oliver’s “Old Firehall” was born of father and son. We heard a local bootlegger was selling his brewing system, and soon enough we were busy piping it into the Old Firehall’s cavernous bunker with the help of friends & family. Since completion, I’ve been crafting unfiltered, unpasteurized, & uncompromised artisan ales, again with much help from friends and family (and a canoe paddle). We brew small batches, but we like it that way – it tastes better with more “love-per-litre.” And “rhythm conditioning” the beer with guitars helps too.