

#21 Is collaboration all what it seems
To
hear some brewers talk, doing a collaboration with another brewery is a rite of
passage, something every brewer has to do. But do they?
You have your own brewery to run, with your own never-ending workload of paperwork, brewing, testing, delivering, cleaning, packaging, ordering, scheduling, and a whole lot more. Guess what, a collaboration with another brewer won’t mean less of the above, it’s going to mean more. The ever-personable Jon Swain of Hackney Brewery will give you his take on collaborations, why he didn’t jump into his first one, pitfalls to avoid, what you will gain as a brewer, and his most recent one with a brewery in New York City.
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Jon Swain of Hackney Brewery
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