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Lafayette Brewing Company is a brew pub. Basically that means we have an onsite microbrewery.
A microbrewery is a brewery that produces less than 15,000 barrels annually.
Myself and my wife, Nancy. We've been doing this for 20 years now - just celebrated the
twentieth anniversary last September.
Well, twenty years ago not too many people knew what microbreweries
and brew pubs were. There
were
less than 200 in the country, and there's over 4500 right now. We were
around the front end of the curve and our goal was to convince folks in communities
like Lafayette, and we looked around quite a few areas in the Midwest, that we had a
viable business and something that would add to their community.
"Home brewer gone mad" - I used to work around the corner at Knickerbocker when I was going
to grad school at Purdue and there were some guys that hung out there that were homebrewers
and told me stories about the Great American Beer Festival, making their own beers, and
started bringing in beers for me to taste. It was just something I was hooked on. My
wife and
I always thought we were going to own
our own
business and the brewing thing just fit naturally.