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This week, we have a great review of last week’s The Hive Melbourne networking event from TechfluffTV’s Melbourne Correspondent Bev Wilkinson! She covers the story of Dean O’Callaghan who set up his small business The Good Brew Company and has included an exclusive recording of the Q&A session at the end of his talk. You can follow Bev on twitter astrostar123, please say hi!

A green suited entrepreneur with a passion to make beer into an environmentally sustainable business is what got the punters in at the latest Hive Event. With a desire to save the world one good brew at a time, Dean O’Callaghan is the brains behind The Good Brew Company which is a business with a unique twist.

Instead of delivery trucks, the business uses environmentally friendly tricycles to deliver locally produced beers, wines and non alcoholic beverages to Melbourne’s CDB and inner suburbs.

Dean says the business first began while he was in Germany and got an email from his worried mum. “My father just bought a brewery and I decided to come back, the way he brewed did not make sense,” he says.
“It was very energy and water intensive; he did not have any money to pay me directly so I started my own business.” This was the spark that enabled Dean to go out and help micro brewery owners.

“I’m a 33-year –old guy whose passion is beer and the environment by starting this small business I was able to help out people like my dad,” he says. It was not an easy start with Dean remembering a time he
was delivering a keg on a 42 degree day.

“I was riding a keg from Brunswick to Ormond while I was half way there, I was thinking its a hard job and no one knows what I am doing and why I am doing it and it made it really hard to convince myself to keep doing what I am doing,” he says.

This made Dean realise he needed to let people know what he was doing especially through social media.“Just pick yourself up and broadcast what you are doing a nd you will get a lot more motivation,” he says.
One important lesson Dean learnt from running his own business is to sit down with people who know about important issues such as accounting and law. “ There are lots of things you need to be good at
when you start a business if I could do it again I would sit down with people I know who are good at these things and pick their brains,” he says.

You can watch the intensive Q&A session with Dean below:

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