How I started Brewing!
This may be the most black picture you ever see of me. I am half black, half Colombian and 100% San Nicolas Aruba born and raised.
I graduated as a chemical engineer in Holland in 2015. Shortly after graduating my wife said lets move back to Aruba and so we did ๐ฆ๐ผ Happy Wife Happy Life ๐๐ผ I stand by that ๐
In Aruba I spent 18 months applying everywhere as a Chemical engineer but there wasnโt even much reaction or jobs available. I was already a craft beer drinker and I said why not use our big soup pan to start home brewing ๐ in that case I will be practicing my profession and making beer ๐บ sounds like fun I thought ๐ I always loved reading so I started reading all about brewing, the first beers I made was really awful, I mean really ๐คฃ but we drank them ๐คชThey were also great tho, because they were the beginning of Fireson ๐ฅ
Fast forward to 2017 I received a job offer but in Curacao at the Isla refinery. After really thinking it through with my wife if we should all move there to take the job she came with an idea ๐ก she said why donโt we start something in Aruba here for you ๐ง A local craft beer brewery, since they were non in Aruba we thought would really add value to the Island ๐ฆ๐ผThe international craft beer market was booming! So as Crazy as that sounded two 32 year old young graduates started that journey. Boy we didnโt know what we were getting ourselves into ๐
But you know whatโs amazing about this? The craft beer community is just the most amazing community there is!! Just the support that comes and goes is ๐
So we opened our doors in July 2018 and ever since had to jump a lot of hoops. We were located on a hot strip but in the back so travelers couldnโt really see us right away and locals didnโt know much about craft beer so it was a slow growth, but slow and steady wins the race right? ๐
The first beer we made was called Bao Palo. Meaning under a tree. A true local tradition ๐ฆ๐ผ
Well guys if you liked our history post let us know in the comments we will for sure have a million stories to share ๐ป