Cheers! Damien's banking on a good drop
A BLOKE in a ute on his way to a beach holiday with his family pulls over on a country road where a sign says there’s beer on sale. The sign had barely been out for a minute when Damien Norman made his first sale at nine o’clock on a Saturday morning in January at Dean, on the road to Ballarat.
His Bankhouse Brewery business was under way. Within three and a half days he had sold out of his brew of more than 30 slabs of beer and alcoholic ginger beer. What’s more, he did it from what may be the tiniest brewery in the country, a timber former bank dating, Damien believes, from the late 1800s. It measures just 22 square metres.