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Costello’s brews began to develop a following as they flowed, batch by small batch, among area establishments — which is how Peter Kendall came to become a fan of Point Ybel. Originally from Vermont, Kendall had achieved a successful career in the financial services industry and made the move to Sanibel some ten years ago. Another admirer of quality beer, he and a few colleagues once considered launching a craft brewery. They had even come up with a name and created a website, but never moved forward on the actual brewing. Kendall says after he moved to Sanibel, the craft beer idea moved, so to speak, to the back burner. A bartender and mutual friend of Costello and Kendall finally helped introduce the two, and what has come from that first encounter continues to be history in the making.
For Cravers of Flavors Costello and Kendall determined that Southwest Florida would be rightfully served to have its own local brewery, and that beer lovers could be better
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