Hi, my name is Taff......

[taff..]

and I'm considering becoming a microbrewer. :shock:

there's the opening confession now for a bit more detail.

I'm leaving the forces in 18 months and have spent a lot of time recently trying to find something that i want to do for a living. I'm not particularly interested in carrying on in my current trade (aviation) mainly because of the amount of work I'll have to re-do to civilianise my qualifications, and I want to work for myself.

there's a few different things that I'm considering so I'm doing a fair bit of research to find out the real truth behind small business and the pitfalls that are waiting to catch the unweary. I dont homebrew beer as a hobby, and generally the percieved wisdom is 'don't try and turn your hobby into a living 'cos you'll end up hating your hobby', I believe there's a lot of truth in that. my hobbies btw are motorbikes, cycling and beekeeping.

so thanks to TRXnME I'm here, and I've ordered 'the microbrewers handbook' as a starting point.


time to start reading :thumb:

 

[bobsbeer]

Welcome and good luck. :

 

[PD]

welcome.
There are several member on here that opened up micro breweries as a business. I'm sure that they will be along with advice.

 

[LeedsBrewer]

hello and welcome. plenty of info on this site and lots of people that are willing to answer your questions.

Check out the following thread on building a micro-brewery
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=25297

 

[dennisking]

Hi and welcome.

 

[taff..]

thanks all :)

hello and welcome. plenty of info on this site and lots of people that are willing to answer your questions.

Check out the following thread on building a micro-brewery

that thread makes very interesting reading, thanks for linking it :

 

[RobWalker]

howdy. where are you based? got a few mates in the raf!

good luck with it dude. contact Nowacki (usually in chat on a sunday) he's in the process of building a micro too. :

 

[taff..]

howdy. where are you based? got a few mates in the raf!

good luck with it dude. contact Nowacki (usually in chat on a sunday) he's in the process of building a micro too. :

'ow do. down in Somerset and I'm not in the RAF :shock:

nobody EVER accused the RAF of doing aviation properly :rofl:

 

[joe1002]

Welcome to the forum :

 

[dericboy1]

Hi, and welcome.!