on-site engineering team there is over 60 years of combined experience designing custom applications and integrating various pieces of equipment from a wide variety of vendors. “Brian and I met 15 or 20 years ago on a job doing the same kind of project work,” Josh explained. “We have deep experience with automation engineering. Meanwhile, I had been home brewing since it was legal for me to do it; I worked at Anheuser Busch for a bit and then opened my own brewery in 2013. I was a professional brewer for about two-and-a-half years and created some nice recipes before I sold it to my business partner so that I could concentrate on this startup Brian and I had put together: Twin Monkeys.” “It came about because we identified a particular need in the market for a kind of quality we knew exactly how to deliver with canning lines,” he continued. “What we were seeing out there we thought were either over-priced or of poor quality so we thought we could deliver a pretty good package. We had created a canning line and a keg washer for my brewery back in 2013/2014 and that’s when we knew we had this thing nailed. We said, “Let’s go!” and we opened the business up and started to sell them to everyone.” Brian explained that the sales side of Twin Monkeys starts with a specification worksheet that their customers order from like you would with a brand new car. “You can think of it like someone saying, ’I want the chrome wheels, but I don’t want the CD six-pack in the back.’ We have lots of options. That process allows us to talk to “Our resumes really enable us to pull in others – what we call “solutions partners” – into the full system.”
E ntrepreneurs, Josh Van Riper and Brian LeFevre are also engineers and are willing and able to create a fully-automated packaging line that fits in your facility with Twin Monkeys Beverage Canning Systems. “We can help with the systems and anything that helps run the systems that help make beverages,” Josh said. “Brian and I are both automation engineers and we both came at it from different angles; he’s more of a mechanical engineer and I do more of the programming and electrical work.” Between the two owners of Twin Monkeys Beverage Canning Systems and their
- Yes, you CAN!
W hen Spotlight on Business had the opportunity to chat with the owners of Twin Monkeys Beverage Canning Systems of Aurora, Colorado, a while back we were immediately captivated by their backstory and thought that this issue would be a great opportunity to revisit Josh Van Riper and
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Brian LeFevre’s story and Twin Monkeys Beverage Canning Systems’ affordable inline filling systems, from the tiny footprint, tabletopMancos system to the full-sizedRoaring Fork systems that have a throughput of 40 to 80 cans a minute are proving to independent small and big batch brewers everywhere that “Yes, you CAN!”
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