Has anyone made the jump from Homebrew to ......

[towser]

microbrewer or even full scale brewery?

It must be a hell of a jump from 33 litre plastic FV's to commercial profit making production. Then there's selling & marketing, securing supplies, large scale temperature control, perhaps pasteurisation, bottling machines...etc etc etc.

[OldSpeckledBadger]

Good luck to anyone who tries. Living quite close to Burton, I did consider going into brewing after I'd graduated. I'm glad I didn't though. I think we home brewers get the real fun out of brewing. Scale up to a micro and it looks like a lot of hard graft for possibly not much financial reward. Scale up to a big brewery and it becomes an exercise in process engineering.

[Scooby]

A friend of mine brews in his garage with 2 burco boilers, he sells to local pubs and also has a bottle conditioned beer. So he has the fun of a homebrewer (if you can call it that, I find it a chore) and the satisfaction of having his beer appreciated by folk in the pub.