![]() We also launched with kegs - my poor car. I was beyond excited to have landed two indie bottleshops – Beer Cartel and Cutty St Cellars – plus the coolest new place on the strip - Small Bar Crows Nest. I literally took two six-pack samples in a backpack with me and cold called around my home suburb in Crows Nest and Artarmon. I would never say it was “easy” to sell beer but I remember the first pallet of stock that we received for me to sell in Sydney – stored in my home lockup garage, as I was based in Sydney until two years ago when I moved back home to Perth. When we first started in 2011 or even had the idea to start a brewing business in mid to late 2010, it was such a different landscape. ![]() Things move quickly, don’t think you can ever rest! With such an incredible tale to tell – and this is just scratching the surface – we invited them to look back on their decade in beer and share with us the key moments and lessons learned along the way in our second Ten Lessons From Ten Years feature.ġ. Just before they reached their ten-year milestone, they entered a new chapter of Two Birds, becoming part of the Fermentum Group of brands alongside the likes of Stone & Wood, Fixation and Sunly Seltzer. And they've won over countless friends throughout the industry thanks to the warmth and energy they bring with them when they enter a room. The clearly colour-coded approach to their beers in the early days appears to have inspired many others, while their Nest – home to their brewery and venue – in Spotswood played a major role in the rise of craft beer in Melbourne's west once they had a brewery of their own.ĭespite the challenges of running a brewing company in a fast-evolving industry, both Dani and Jayne (who we featured in our end of decade Advent Calendar) have given their time generously, whether as judges or educators or guests at events. They started out brewing their Golden and then Sunset Ales as contract brewers, quickly winning a big following and helping the golden ale style enjoy its moment in the sun. The long-time friends – Dani an entrepreneur who had been carving her own path through the corporate world, Jayne a winemaker turned cidermaker and then brewer who had become Mountain Goat's first head brewer – have gone on to amass trophies galore at the country's biggest beer competitions, release inventive beers, forge partnerships outside the beer industry, and act as an inspiration to so many others in the wider beer community (although they'd no doubt be too humble to admit the last of these). This is in no way to undermine the way in which they broke the mould when they sold their first Golden Ale, more an acknowledgement of just how much they've gone on to achieve since. Ten years on from the launch of Two Birds Brewing, the fact the brewing company started by Dani Allen and Jayne Lewis was the first in Australia to be owned by women feels less central to their story than it once might have done.
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