Whitewater Brewing Co. in Renfrew county

Lubiere · Post by **Lubiere** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:29 am

Anyone heard about this one?

http://www.facebook.com/WhitewaterBrewingCompany
https://twitter.com/WhitewaterBrew

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 1:54 pm

...Interesting heading on their FB...

"Whitewater Brewing Company is a Micro Brewery founded by 3 passionate and terribly competent raft guides who hope that their friendship, their keen taste for beer and their desire for a quality product will overcome their current lack of Brewing knowledge"

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cfrancis · Post by **cfrancis** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:15 pm

Hilarious. I'm from that area. I'll start asking around. Never heard anything about it.

Sounds like it's a couple of hippies from Wilderness Tours.

TheSevenDuffs · Post by **TheSevenDuffs** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 3:07 pm

JeffPorter wrote:...Interesting heading on their FB...

"Whitewater Brewing Company is a Micro Brewery founded by 3 passionate and terribly competent raft guides who hope that their friendship, their keen taste for beer and their desire for a quality product will overcome their current lack of Brewing knowledge"

...

Would love to see the business plan that got these guys their start up capital...

mintjellie · Post by **mintjellie** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:39 pm

cfrancis wrote:Hilarious. I'm from that area. I'll start asking around. Never heard anything about it.

Sounds like it's a couple of hippies from Wilderness Tours.

I worked a summer at Wilderness Tours.

Tapsucker · Post by **Tapsucker** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:09 pm

Business plan:

Hey Uncle Joe,

Mooner and I wanna start a brewery. Have you seen the growth rate of the craft brewery industry? It's not like the party boat industry we've been losing money on for the past seven years. Could you help us out? It's a sure thing man. As soon as we make a killing and I can move out of mom's garage I'll pay you back.

Regards Jaxzy.

cfrancis · Post by **cfrancis** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:00 am

mintjellie wrote:
cfrancis wrote:Hilarious. I'm from that area. I'll start asking around. Never heard anything about it.

Sounds like it's a couple of hippies from Wilderness Tours.
I worked a summer at Wilderness Tours.

So did I, 1995 and so did my sister. I also went to high school with the director.

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 8:39 am

That does it.

I`m starting a brewery.

I know I`ve only ever brewed a few beers from extracts, but I`m pretty sure I can do it.

Just going to leave my teaching job and cash in my pension for the equipment. I`m sure my wife will be fine with it.

I don`t really know how to brew good beer, nor am I particularly skilled in business, but hopefully, my love of beer and money will compensate for my lack of knowledge...of brewing and money-making.

probstk · Post by **probstk** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 11:58 am

cfrancis wrote:Hilarious. I'm from that area. I'll start asking around. Never heard anything about it.

Sounds like it's a couple of hippies from Wilderness Tours.

That's it exactly. My guide this summer was one of the 3 partners. They bought some kind of sweet turn-key brew house (according to him). I probed a bit and it was fairly clear that the learning curve will be steep. Doesn't sound like they have any brewing experience or even much beer drinking experience. Unless he was playing his cards REALLY close to his chest.

Kel Varnsen · Post by **Kel Varnsen** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:43 pm

probstk wrote:
cfrancis wrote:Hilarious. I'm from that area. I'll start asking around. Never heard anything about it.

Sounds like it's a couple of hippies from Wilderness Tours.
That's it exactly. My guide this summer was one of the 3 partners. They bought some kind of sweet turn-key brew house (according to him). I probed a bit and it was fairly clear that the learning curve will be steep. Doesn't sound like they have any brewing experience or even much beer drinking experience. Unless he was playing his cards REALLY close to his chest.

Hopefully they have the cash to hire a talented brewer to go along with their sweet brewhouse. Otherwise there could be problems. I mean I have been home brewing since this past spring, and I while I have made beer that I don't mind drinking, I haven't come anywhere close to making beer that I think would be good enough to sell (or even give to people). That's not so bad when you are talking about what you can make in your kitchen, but when you are talking about commercial levels of production, working out the kinks and making bad beer you can't sell would be very expensive.

JerCraigs · Post by **JerCraigs** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:02 pm

If they are selling it mainly on the premises I expect they can unload a lot of "learning curve" beer as long as they sell it cheap...

cfrancis · Post by **cfrancis** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 4:24 pm

That is prime Blue Light and Coors Light drinking demographic up there.

mintjellie · Post by **mintjellie** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 2:02 am

cfrancis wrote:That is prime Blue Light and Coors Light drinking demographic up there.

As far as guests go, it's more like gigantic Alabama Slammers served in buckets.

In terms of staff, things skew more towards PBR, 50, Old Milwaukee, and Beast Ice.

toweringpine · Post by **toweringpine** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:08 am

I remember rumors of Square Timber Brewing from Pembroke a few years back. their web page has a new post - the first post in three years. Maybe the region is ready for some craft beer finally.

Although I have never seen a bar selling craft in the area I have been pleasantly surprised by the selection of better beer in the LCBOs up there that last few times I have been there.

The founder of Scotch Irish ( still? ) lives very near Beachburg. lets hope the first good business move Whitewater Brewing makes is to hire him!

midlife crisis · Post by **midlife crisis** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 4:51 pm

Although I have never seen a bar selling craft in the area I have been pleasantly surprised by the selection of better beer in the LCBOs up there that last few times I have been there.

Which ones? Eganville and Killaloe mostly a disaster ....