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“It’s current to be a heck of a project, but that’s what it’s all about,” said Wagner, a Chicago national. “It’s not like opening a restaurant. It’s a manufacturing deftness.”
Wagner first caught a taste for brewing after college, when he began making pint-sized batches of his own beer as a hobby. When a career in social services didn’t utterly pan out, he decided to make beer his business.
Not knowing what professional brewing was all about, Wagner took a indiscretion in 2000 to Tampa, where he scouted every brewery in the region. He spent the next four years erudition every trick of the trade from the owner of the popular Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
He hasn’t looked back since.
“It’s been one big exploration project for me over the years,” Wagner said. “Everyone wants to talk about brewing, but it doesn’t far-out anything until you have a beer in your hand.”
The Little Giant Brewing Co. started with a pilot craft brewing system and hobble on Anna Maria Island, where Wagner would make beer for non-public events. Because he didn’t have proper permits to sell it, he gave it away.
Source: Bradenton Herald