What This Actually Means

Capital investment in a brewery is not a one-off startup cost. It's a permanent, ongoing drain on your finances and your time. You will spend more of your life maintaining, repairing, and wishing you could replace equipment than you ever imagined. You will develop skills you never wanted. You will have arguments with your bank manager about loans for a piece of kit they don't understand. And you will lie awake at night listening to the chiller, wondering if that new noise means another thousand pounds you don't have.

Did you expect to be an engineer? Because that's part of the job now.