You know you are in for a fun and geeky chat when your guest starts by saying, "Man got civilized because he wanted to drink beer". In conversation with Navin Mittal, a passionate brewer, foodie and the co-founder & partner at the Gateway brewing company in Mumbai.
In this episode, we cover:
- Discovering a love for beer and educating oneself through blogs, podcasts and experiments with ingredients, roasting and flavours
- Making the "fear of failure" drive you to perform in everything you do
- Navigating "babu-dom" to get permissions and setting up a micro brewery
- The frustrations of a micro and small enterprise owner in the real world of manufacturing and services
- Lockdown and having to drain craft beer
- Future of resto-bars, regulations on beer delivery and more...
You can catch his experiments on indianbeergeek.com