Starting a Journey Together: Building an Inter-Generational Business

Dad and I started the brewery in 2006 the conversation that kind of spawned that was actually about a year before that dad had been running a textile business in Vankleek Hill and that whole industry basically moved out of Canada in a very short period of time so he went from running a small profitable business to all of a sudden all of his customers either being you know bankrupt or moving out of Canada and so he realized he had do to something and came to visit me I was living in Toronto at the time and we basically over the course of a conversation went through a number of different options that he'd kind of come up with and at 1 point in the conversation he said Steve you're always you know bringing home all these different craft beers that you like you're a home-brewer what do you think about me opening up a craft brewery in Vankleek Hill and I kind of stopped and I said well if you're serious dad I'll quit my job and sell my house and I'll move home I’ll and start to brewery with you and so we literally just started dreaming up that brewery on the spot and just started working on it right away after about a year we actually had the financing in place and the equipment purchased and we were starting a brewery.