Fairfield-based BS Brewing Co. will be among more than 50 vendors showcasing their wares at this year’s Dunedin Craft Beer & Food Festival, taking place today and tomorrow at Forsyth Barr Stadium.
BS Brewing Co. director Steve Pulford said he and fellow director Brent Taylor were "just a couple of good old Dunedin workers" who started homebrewing about seven years ago, and had become "hooked" after attending the festival themselves one year.
"And we thought, we should make our own beer, right?
"We gave it a crack and we’ve just been hooked on it. Never looked back since."
Mr Pulford said their company was not about reinventing beer, but crafting "good, solid, quality beers".
Mr Pulford said the people of Dunedin would have seen the odd beer of theirs "here and there" at venues such as Moons, Sessions and Ironic.
The festival was a chance to showcase their full range in one spot, and for attendees to catch up and have a good laugh with people they had not seen for years, he said.
"Because we like our own beer so much, we thought other people might like it and we thought it was worth sharing that with Dunedin.
"The way we look at it, we’ve got nothing to lose, we’ve got everything to gain — that’s why we’re here."
Mr Taylor said they were "extremely excited" to be included in this year’s festival, which would be their first time appearing as a vendor.
Their beers were solid all-rounders and were "nothing too radical".
The company was registered in 2018 but this was the first year the company had sold beer.
The pair would get together on a Friday night or Saturday to brew in his garage — which he said was a registered brewery signed-off by food safety and the council — and Mr Taylor had found he really enjoyed brewing.
"It’s not the drinking of the beer any more, it’s the making of it and the enjoyment that comes with other people enjoying our beer.
"That’s the buzz I get now — is other people saying, ‘that’s a really good beer. I can’t believe that’s a couple of homebrewers making that’."
