Intrapreneurship at Beau’s: The Creation of Halcyon Barrel House

Halcyon has been a really interesting journey for us the start of it actually came because one of our talented brewers came to me and let me know that he was planning on starting his own brewery and rather than do what a lot of breweries do which would be show him the door I said you know I think that's great and I asked if I could help him and so over the course of the next year or so I helped him build his business plan and as he was building his business plan he was getting his investors lined up and I was falling in love with this brewery he was planning on opening and kind of maybe not at the 11th hour but at the 10th hour his major investor got cold feet and pulled out of the project And when I found out about that I kind of had that moment of clarity and I went to Bryce and I said that I recognized that this is probably a big setback for you what if what if we did this as part of Beau’s so instead of you starting up your own brewery you start up a new division within our brewery and that really excited Bryce because you know he was one of our employee owners so he already felt connected to the ownership here and it let him do everything he wanted to do As well as gave him access to all sorts of resources he wouldn't otherwise have access to you know to be a brand new start up brewery but have access to one of the largest breweries in the province sales team and marketing team and purchasing power a huge benefit for him and so it's been a really really fun journey working through with him and we would figure out how much we needed to invest in it to get it off the ground and we just started making it work.