The greatest ideas are often those written on napkins, coming into fruition over the course of a night with a seemingly endless supply of cold beer. The idea of Beau’s All Natural Brewing is no different.  “I stopped and thought for a minute and said, ‘well if you’re serious, Dad, I will sell my house and quit my job, fold up the record label and I’ll start a brewery with you.’ And we spent the rest of the day dreaming up this brewery we were going to open.”  Steve Beauchesne is the CEO and Co-Founder of Beau’s All Natural Brewing. Beau’s is a family-run, employee-owned and totally independent Canadian craft brewery that has seen 500% growth in the past 5 years. Since it started in 2006, Beau’s has won more than 85 national and international awards for beer-making, marketing, sustainability, and has raised more than 1 million dollars for charity. Steve certified Beau's as Canada's first-ever B-Corp brewery, founded February 1 as International Gruit Day and successfully lobbied to have some of Canada's old beer laws changed to recognize the rights of craft brewers.  In this week’s #StartupPodcast, host Rivers Corbett talks to Steve about his journey into B-Corp beer-preneurship and how Beau’s integrates giving back into its business model.

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