In as little as seven days, you could have 19 litres of award-winning homebrew beer - a successful invention which has allowed homebrew kit company WilliamsWarn to eye up the global market.
In 2006, company co-founder Ian Williams began researching the opportunity to improve the quality of brewing beer at home and speed up the production process to be more in-line with professional breweries. With input from his long-time friend, engineer Anders Warn, Ian created a compact personal brewing machine that dealt with challenges such as temperature control, sediment removal, infection prevention, brewing under pressure to achieve carbonation and flow control.
So began WilliamsWarn.
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At a time when beer sales are in decline, the innovative Kiwi company is occupying a new category in homebrew, and is aiming to be well established in the Australian market by the end of the year.