Capital Brewing Co-founders Managing Directors Tom Hertel and Laurence Kain Grew up in Canberra just one suburb apart. Their paths crossed for the first time in 2005 when they both started working in bars around Canberra. It was here that they bonded over a shared love of quality beverages and the hospitality trade.

In 2011, they pooled together the money they’d squirrelled away
from working behind bars and with the help of some mates and some sledge hammers, turned an old Italian restaurant into Canberra’s first bar focused on independent Australian craft beer.

Being pre-craft-beer boom, that beer wasn’t easy to come by. Every fortnight they’d drive a hire truck to Sydney and return laden with kegs, which were soon emptied, thanks to the voracious local appetite for quality brews.

Since opening in 2016, Capital Brewing have been working with ROXSET to install all the critical HACCP flooring throughout the brewery, including BrewHouse and Canning Line.

Today, after a whole lot of yeast, hops and hard work, Capital Brewing Co is one of the largest independent craft breweries in Australia with a team of 70 plus and a whole lot of exciting things in the pipeline.

And a little something to brag about – Capital Brewing is Australia’s first Climate Active certified 100% carbon neutral brewery!!!

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