#33 Beer, Brewing and burnout

Working in the brewing industry involves a lot of hard work, and long hours. Whether you’re in the field of production and packaging, or maybe sales and distribution, it has often been far too easy for many to forget that brewing industry professionals are not robots.

And the Covid-19 pandemic has made a challenging career path an even tougher profession to navigate because, as we all know, the brewing industry, with its own pressures, is not immune from the impact of the global situation.

But the relationship between mental health in brewing is nothing new. Far from it. It is, however, an area that has flown under the radar for far too long.

In this episode we look at the relationship between the brewing industry and the people that make it. And while the global pandemic has meant that we’ve not been able to host as many of Brewers Lectures as we’d like this year, in the podcast we’ll hear talks from two our previous events.

Stu McKinlay, co-founder of Yeastie Boys and Rich White, the founder of Werewolf Beer, share their experiences from working in the brewing industry, the pressures that come with that, and how we can do more to look after others and ourselves.