Chris Conway, From Here to There

In this episode, Troy sits down with Chris Conway, General Manager of Old Credit Brewing Co. in Port Credit, a guy who traded in a PhD for a one-barrel brew system in a gastropub kitchen and never looked back. With stints co-founding Folly Brewpub in Toronto and building Landwash Brewery into one of Newfoundland’s fastest growing craft breweries, Chris is a builder and an operator. Someone who understands the romanticism of craft beer but also the hard math of making it work. And he's landed at exactly the kind of place where that blend of skills is needed most.

They get into Chris's unconventional path from St. John's to U of T to the tap handles of Port Credit, what it actually looked like to build a brewery from scratch in Newfoundland before the craft wave hit, and what drew him to a 32-year-old brewery that was quietly doing the craft thing before craft was cool.

What's in this episode:

• Chris's origin story - from St. John's homebrew obsession to Toronto's emerging craft scene
• The Folly Brewpub chapter and everything farmhouse-style
• Why he left Toronto to co-found Landwash Brewery in Newfoundland - and how he saw the craft explosion coming
• Building Landwash into one of Atlantic Canada's most respected independent operations
• What he walked into at Old Credit, and the philosophy behind "thoughtful modernization"
• The history of Old Credit — 30+ years, one family, and a lot of beer

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