“Plus, my mum had a big birthday coming up. Her dad my grandfather had owned a brewery back in Australia and as a present I recreated the beer that they had brewed. Then I realized I really enjoyed it. Which raised the question, how could we keep doing it? How could we make beer that people would want? Simultaneously, as a pub owner I was getting frustrated that the beer styles I liked particularly lager were getting short shrift in the beer market. Most of what was available was bland and fizzy and anything half decent was imported, expensive and seen as a bit exclusive. No wonder lager had a bad name. So I made that my goal. To make lager, to make lager better, to make lager recognisable and to make lager great!”