THE COLLINGWOOD BREWERY — One of Canada’ s best
In themeantime, Freeman applied to a college brewing course and moved down to the Niagara area for a couple of years to pursue the brewmaster program. While at school, he secured a summer job with the highly successful Creemore Springs Brewery and was hired on full-time after he graduated. All the while, he was in conversations with potential future partners on starting a brewery in Collingwood. A while back Spotlight on Business Magazine spoke with Freeman about their beginnings, their products, and their support community in Collingwood, a small town on Georgian Bay, north of Toronto. “We were quite ambitious with our production facility when we started.”
by John Allaire S ometimes the stars line up. You know, the ones where dreams, passion and feasibility all meet and create a big bang. Such was the case with The Collingwood Brewery. One guy with a passion for making beer finding partners with foresight and a willingness to invest in a project. Owner, co-founder and brewmaster, Chris Freeman started brewing beer nine years ago. He was working at an office job and battled the ho-hums by getting into home brewing on evenings and weekends. And like many home brewers, after he made his first batch, his thoughts turned to making a living out of his new- found talent and passion. Not one to let the moss grow under his feet, Freeman and his brother started pounding the pavement in search of financing and interested investors.
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • AUGUST 2019
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