“We were in a room with 200 breweries, no-one had heard of us, and we had Waitrose’s head of beer and wine come over to our stand because she’d been dragged by her colleagues to try our beer,” Luci said.
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Mike, who worked in supply chain consultancy and logistics management at the time, proposed to Luci, who worked in food and drink marketing, in Paris, and the couple got married in 2015.
Luci said: “I think one of the greatest things about running your own brewery is being in a pub, hearing someone order your beer that you don’t know, and them drinking it and enjoying it.
After purchasing a small commercial kit, they started producing small batches of beer — 100 litres at a time — from their garage, focusing on a distinct range of kettle sours and imperial stouts.
