A friend of mine and I are to open a pub in 5 years or so, we have started the first steps, but its a long process (especially in my town in alaska). we decided it would be great to brew our own beer, maybe set ourselves apart a little bit, and we both love beer.
i volunteered for the beer brewing job, so thats what im working on now. over the next year i'll step by step be working on more complex home brews, while i study some pre-req classes to get into a brewers program, to learn the art of microbrewing. between then and when the pub is finally ready to open, i'll be trying to find work in the field, and just absorb all that i can.
We dont have any dreams of grandeur, but selling beer locally, and having the only real Pub in our town of 18k should be ample product/service to keep us in business. (adding 1 million tourists visiting a year helps our chances dramatically)
also have 2 friends who went to culinary school, so proper food would really set us apart from the rest...
anyway we have only mentioned one name for the pub, and one for the beer co. "the 12th step" and "KGB" (Ketchikan Gateway Brewers)