How a Craft Brewer Took Wellington by Storm
It started with a bang and only got bigger from there. In partnership with Made With Care New Zealand, we talk to Garage Project founder Pete Gillespie about his brewery’s humble beginnings in a garage, where he finds inspiration and his love of Australia.
Photography: Anna Briggs
by Evan Jones
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It all started with a simple, if crazy, idea: launch a brewery and release 24 unique beers in 24 weeks. Rather than drip-feed their pale ales and craft lagers into the world, Pete Gillespie and Garage Project co-founders Ian Gillespie (Pete’s brother) and Jos Ruffell would instead unleash a wave of creative brewing upon their hometown of Wellington. This was back in 2011, when the New Zealand capital didn’t have a single craft-beer brewery.