Rocks Brewing

By Scotty Morgan

Building a brewery is a game of compromise. All the things you want or need to do are often constrained by a budget, time and the approval to brew delicious beers in your own brewery.

Unfortunately, local councils and breweries do not always make friends. There is a lot to cover – from wastewater management and smells, to truck movements and the like.

Our brewery though had a reasonably easy ride through the process. We’re located in Sydney Corporate Park in Alexandria, on 26 acres of what used to be a huge printing factory. The site used to chill 500,000 litres of water to three degrees Celsius every night, and used 32,000 megajoules of gas per hour. Since we’ll only use a mere 3000 litres of water a day and 2000 megajoules of gas, we’re tiny and more environmentally friendly, compared to the operation the site used to hold.

We’re also lucky to have 5000 people working onsite. Our neighbourhood is a diverse range of businesses, including a Harley dealership, Australia Post, a bank, a few more car yards and (until this wee) a large magazine company. All in all, a good mix of people to come visit the brewery.

But, the DA and the Excise application require a lot of work. Our town planners submitted a 50-page document, with associated plans and drawings, on our behalf. And our excise application required more pages of information than I care to remember.

Regardless of the amount of paper and mind-numbing hours of work, we are thrilled to have all the approvals done – just got to lock in our license now – and to be getting on with the job of making great beer.

Rocks Brewing Co is looking for craft beer superstars to be a part of our expansion.

With two new venues opening in February, we are looking for:

• General Manager – Brewery Bar

We have the opportunity of a lifetime for a passionate beer advocate to run our new flagship Brewery Bar and Restaurant. Get in touch if you’re interested in being the driving force behind creating a new Sydney craft beer icon, sharing your love of craft beer, and have at least three years experience in bar management to your name.

• General Manager – Harts Pub

Harts Pub is an established venue with a stellar beer and food reputation to uphold. We’re looking for a craft beer-lover, with at least three years experience in bar management, to run our iconic pub.

• Beer Loving Chef – Lord Raglan
  

The Lord Raglan is our newest craft beer venue and we’re looking for a young up and coming chef to take over the kitchen. A love of American-style comfort food is a must as well as a passion for craft beer and beer and food matching. This position is ideal for someone with a few years as a sous chef under their belt who is looking to move up and run their own space.

• Six Experienced Bar Staff

Are you a beer nut? Think you have what it takes to talk shop with beer lovers as well as guide some newbies along the path of their beer journey? We want to hear all about it.

• Two Part-Time Baristas

At Rocks Brewing Co we’re also pretty serious about our coffee and, as such, we’re looking morning people to cover the making of our other favourite brew.

Did an opportunity catch your eye? Email your resume – or any questions – to jobs@rocksbrewing.com.