CREW Republic Brewery GmbH

Spring 2011: We, Mario and Timm, have just quit our jobs and set up our first home brewing facility in a backyard flat share in Glockenbachviertel in Munich. For the dream of our own beer, we exchanged suit and tie for dungarees and rubber boots. Our goal: Creative and exciting beers that revolutionize the boring German beer world!
Everyone declared us crazy – friends and family wanted to talk us out of our dream and even from our landlord there was headwind. Because the house in which we lived and operated our home-brewing facility belongs to a traditional brewery in Munich. But we remained steadfast and after months of filing the recipe and countless rehearsal times, it was finally time: Our first beer, today’s CREW Republic “Foundation 11 – Pale Ale”, was finally how we wanted it!
We eventually found a small friendly brewery where we could rent and continue our brewing experiments on a larger facility. Of course, we would have preferred to build our own brewery right away, but the banks had no more than a damp handshake.
With the first bottles of our freshly brewed craft beer in our hands, we had only one goal: we wanted to take the hearts of Munich beer drinkers by storm! But the storm blew us more in the face. Unbelieving faces, twisted faces, and locked doors were part of our everyday lives. But slowly and with much perseverance, the congregation grew and preferred our Pale Ale to the Unity Brew and was ready for more!
The first successes came along and with it the demand for even more hop aroma. In 2012, our first real hop bomb – today’s CREW Republic “Drunken Sailor – IPA” hit the “market”, which actually did not exist. From then on, we were sure the revolution was unstoppable, followed by more new types of beer, such as our “Roundhouse Kick – Imperial Stout” or the “7:45 Escalation – Double IPA”.
However, more and more often we came up against capacity limits and had to put customers off. The only solution: own brewery for our CREW Republic. Since the end of 2013 we have been in the planning and since May 2015, we finally brew all our beers in our own CREW Republic Brewery – true to our motto: Brewing Awesomeness!
You want to come over? No problem! From summer 2017 we officially open our gates and look forward to your visit! Then we welcome you to our taproom with beer garden and join you in the German craft beer revolution!

Author: Caroline Porsiel