Having studied microbiology at Reading University, Andy joined Courage, Barcley, Simmonds at their Reading Brewery in 1975. In 1980 he moved to a regional brewery in Horsham Sussex, King and Barnes, and was promoted to Head Brewer in 1985. That brewery was taken over in 2000 and closed. As they had a successful production team which had won on 20 major prizes, including the overall Champion of the Great British Beer Festival and voted as one of the top ten breweries in the world, they set up their own brewery largely brewing and packaging beer for other brewers.   

In 2016 they completed a ground up build of a new site implementing a lot of the carbon reduction actions that are now seen as vital. The company develops and produces beers for other companies as well as under its own brands and is also involved with the development of green engineering technology including the world’s first ‘beer source heat pump’. 

Andy became a Green Business Champion for West Sussex ‘Let’s go net zero’ in 2024.

Location: Masterclass Stage

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