Dean O’Callaghan - The Good Brew

Dean O’Callaghan and the Good Brew Co are on a mission to make our beer drinking experience environmentally sustainable – one amber ale at a time. Deano says his micro-brewed beer is great for the planet, vitamin-packed, a must for vegans and promotes excellent social cohesion. Growing-up in a environmentally and socially active hippie family, Deano took the logical career path; into computer programming. While living in Europe teaching English in Germany, he used ‘guerrilla’ lesson plans to teach mid-level executives at Shell about his views on the environmental impact of the oil industry and the world banking system. When his father bought a brewery, he returned to Australia knowing the environmental impact of beer production could be, what he calls it ‘hideous’. In fact, one US beer company calculated the full life cycle of a 6 pack cost 3.18 Kgs* in green house gas emissions (7 pounds for y’all without a metric system). So Deano started the Good Brew Co which kes micro-breweries more sustainable by converting them to solar He also brews his own organic beer and soft drinks and delivers the kegs by tricycle to parties and festivals. Deano is also the founder of Fest La Frog, which aims to be Australia’s greenest festival – a no waste, no trace, solar powered, bio-dynamic music and permaculture festival on French Island, Victoria. Enjoy his story! (* See www.dogoodradio.com/goodbrew for the statistical source)