By John Allaire I started home brewing in 2009 and was immediately hooked. We started seriously thinking about putting everything for a brewery together in 2013. But we were quite successful with our home brews. Even won a few awards nationally. We were getting a great response from our friends and family. So that gave us the confidence to compete. We knew we were making good product” Mac- Donald explains. Morrow adds, “We knew there was a gap in the market here, so we jumped into it with both feet.” Family plays a large role in the overall philosophy and the everyday decisions at Breton. Both co-owners have young families, as do many of their employees. It quickly became a matter of policy at the outset that family would come first moving forward. MacDonald beams, “We have such
an awesome team here at the brewery allowing us to have a great life/work balance. That’s really important. Being able to raise our families and work at something we love where we grew up and being surrounded by family. There’s nothing better.”
Morrow agrees and adds, “There’s nothing more import-
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