What’s it like when the world’s second largest brewer calls you saying they’d like to chat as they want to support your brewery’s growth?

Jez Galaun, co-founder of Brixton Brewery, figured it was a hoax.

But one year later, the company Galaun and his co-founders started back in 2013, had partnered with Heineken. And five years on, Brixton Brewery is now fully-owned by the international business.

So at our recent Brewers Lectures in Bristol, we invited Jez to deliver a little bit of insight into how the initial partnership came about, what it meant for them as a brewery and a business, and also share some helpful experiences that will apply to any brewery as it scales up production and distribution.