28 min
22 - Kevin Wood The Explore84 Podcast
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- Self-Improvement
Today we sit down with Kevin Wood, the Owner and Brewer at Red Deer’s Something Brewing and Drummond Brewing. Kevin is an Alberta craft beer original having incorporated in April of 2004, and being situated right in the rivalry neutral zone between Edmonton and Calgary allows him to focus strictly on more beer and better beer.
Kevin’s presence in Alberta’s liquor industry was cemented long before reviving the Drummond Brewing name and participating in Mark’s first ever Alberta Beer Festival. He was voted “most likely to be a beer rep” in high school, and after moving to Calgary he quickly found himself working at The Drink, later meeting his longtime business partner Cody while working for the same chain of nightclubs. Together he and Cody founded their own successful nightclub, Desperados, and we learn how their club’s eventual closing down would lead to them acquiring the Drummond name and trying their hand at brewing.
After 15 years of Drummond and the years before with Desperados, Kevin and his business partner Cody (who are not brothers, despite the rumours!) have been a successful team, and Kevin explains how important it is to know each other’s strengths and weaknesses in order to achieve this. Another important practice in their success is always learning, and Kevin has traveled to more than 700 breweries to learn from them. “There’s a reason something’s being done that way. Can you learn from it?"
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Drummond Brewing
Something Brewing
Today we sit down with Kevin Wood, the Owner and Brewer at Red Deer’s Something Brewing and Drummond Brewing. Kevin is an Alberta craft beer original having incorporated in April of 2004, and being situated right in the rivalry neutral zone between Edmonton and Calgary allows him to focus strictly on more beer and better beer.
Kevin’s presence in Alberta’s liquor industry was cemented long before reviving the Drummond Brewing name and participating in Mark’s first ever Alberta Beer Festival. He was voted “most likely to be a beer rep” in high school, and after moving to Calgary he quickly found himself working at The Drink, later meeting his longtime business partner Cody while working for the same chain of nightclubs. Together he and Cody founded their own successful nightclub, Desperados, and we learn how their club’s eventual closing down would lead to them acquiring the Drummond name and trying their hand at brewing.
After 15 years of Drummond and the years before with Desperados, Kevin and his business partner Cody (who are not brothers, despite the rumours!) have been a successful team, and Kevin explains how important it is to know each other’s strengths and weaknesses in order to achieve this. Another important practice in their success is always learning, and Kevin has traveled to more than 700 breweries to learn from them. “There’s a reason something’s being done that way. Can you learn from it?"
letsmeetforabeer.com
albertabeerfestivals.com
Drummond Brewing
Something Brewing
28 min