I could think of to get some idea of how much beer I would have to make to break even. My wife and I were $38,000 behind on taxes by then, and at that point I aspired merely to break even. But before I had any idea what I was going to do or what it was going to take to get ’er done, I rented a space in a nearby building, applied for a license, bought and installed a three-tier home-brewing setup, and began plans to install a real commercial brewery … while also still learning how to make beer. By December of that same year, all of these things actually happened.
