What does it take to be an industry pioneer, to build your dream?

Fighting exhaustion, financial strain and self-doubt, some of the pioneers of small and independent U.S. craft brewing relive the early days of building their dream breweries in a new craft beer documentary short titled “For the Love of Craft.”

The craft beer documentary features several well-known brewery founders: Larry Bell (Bell’s Brewery), Kevin Blodger (Union Craft Brewing), Ken Grossman (Sierra Nevada), Kim Jordan (New Belgium Brewing), and Jim Koch (Boston Beer Co.).

“Everyone told me I was crazy,” Ken Grossman says in the documentary’s teaser trailer, which you can watch at the top of this article.

“Lunatic Larry down by the railroad tracks selling beer in a bag and a box,” says Larry Bell, laughing at the memory of what people would say as he built his brewery.

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