Who We Are
We run a tight ship @BeerCoAu and we aim to keep it that way for as long as possible. We rely on excellent partners in supply, retail, and logistics to get the best quality brewing ingredients and equipment to our customers as fast and efficiently as possible.
We focus on what we are good at so we can achieve our mission of searching the globe for your brewing and distilling satisfaction finding, securing and procuring the world's finest brewing and distilling ingredients and equipment and bringing them to your brewery door as fast and efficiently as humanly possible always with an emphasis on premium quality products and superior customer service.
Who we are...
Dermott Dowling | Founder and Managing Director
Dermott is responsible for representing BeerCo.com.au to our valuable supply partners, retail partners, customers and friends. An avid homebrewer and craft beer and spirits drinker Dermott uses his expertise in sales and marketing, distribution and international business to bring superior quality premium brewing and distilling materials to quality focused home and craft brewers and distillers.
Prior to founding BeerCo.com.au in late 2013, Dermott founded International & Innovation Business Consultancy Creatovate . Dermott is a proud father to two young brewers and distillers Mazzy (aka Malt) and Lola (aka Hop), loves tending the hops and fruit trees in his garden and getting out for a run, hike or mountain bike happy whenever he can. Nothing thrills Dermott more than talking to customers or spending time with growers, supply partners and makers understanding what they do so please feel free to reach out anytime to say g'day.
Favourite Malt
Favourite Hops
Favourite Yeast
Favourite Beer Styles
Current Brewing Systems
- Guten 50L Single Vessel Microbrewery (SV)
- Dreams of a 4V HERMS - 120L or 1 US BBL on a stand so he can Brew Anything Like a Pro! System - Still Saving for it!$:-)
Favourite Sports Teams
Angus Florance | Chief Technology Advisor
Angus is responsible for making sure BeerCo.com.au keeps up with the play online making it the easiest, fastest and simplest place to shop and order your brewing and distilling supplies online. A recently bug-bitten homebrewer and passionate craft beer drinker Gus uses his expertise in IT and collaboration to build, measure and learn from live testing the latest in technology platforms from order to delivery and payments technology.
Prior to and since working with BeerCo.com.au, Angus has worked in leading consumer package goods companies like Mars and Lion in IT and fast growth start-ups like leaders like Yammer! and established technology leaders including Microsoft. Angus is a proud father to two young children Ava and Rafael, loved his life in San Francisco where he was blessed to live a stone’s throw from the 21st Amendment Brewery and Giants Park. Nothing thrills Gus more than #GettingShitDone. Gus is a prized member of the Board of Advisors to BeerCo.com.au for his ability to decide and act fast and never get fazed or flustered by technology! Now happily residing on 13 Acres in North East, Victoria Gus has dreams of planting an orchard and brewing and barrel aging some modern and classic styles!
Favourite Malt
Favourite Hops
- Centennial
- Anything Juicy!
Favourite Yeast
Favourite Beer Styles
Past and Current Brewing Systems:
- Pico S – Gus was living in a shoe-box size apartment in SF so go figure!
- Picobrew Zymatic now he is back home in MELbrewin' until it crashed!
- Enjoying Brewing Easy Now! with BeerCo.com.au Fresh Wort Kits
Favourite Sports Teams
Roger Lew | Chief Financial Officer
Roger is responsible for keeping BeerCo.com.au in the black and procuring the best deals possible on your brewing supplies and equipment. An avid homebrewer and Young Dad, Roger enjoys anytime on the brew tools. Roger uses his forward looking financial analytics skills to keep BeerCo growing sustainably and keeps us paying our suppliers on time!
Prior to and since co-founding BeerCo in late 2013, Roger has worked in global brewing at Foster’s International, Banking and Insurance and Hospitality at Esanda a business of ANZ, AXA Pacific and Crown and has consulting experience to fast growth privately held companies as a senior associate at Creatovate. Roger is a recent proud new father to the fiery monkey Kyle and another little brewer Harper into this world. He loves life in MELbrewin and enjoys balancing his love of good beer and brewing with instructing people self-defence Krav. Nothing thrills Roger more than #growing well and #sustainably i.e. profitably. Rog is a prized member of the BeerCo.com.au team for his ability to rationalise enthusiasm with pragmatism and bring us all back to the numbers!
Favourite Malt
Favourite Hops
Favourite Yeast
Favourite Beer Styles
Current Brewing System:
- Guten 50L Single Vessel Brewery
Favourite Sports Teams:
- West Coast Eagles FC
- Rog will watch anything especially UFC!
Jarryd Clough | Co-Worker
Jarryd joins the team with a wealth of experience and leadership skills developed from working in retail liquor warehouse and distribution having worked as a rising star at Dan Murphy's | Woolworths Group and in licenced hospitality. Jarryd also has extensive past experience sorting out storerooms, warehousing, pick n pack n dispatch and receivals. A fast starter Jarryd has already whipped the BeerCo.com.au warehouse and team into shape and leads the fulfilment charge keeping our orders going out fast and our shelves well stocked!
Jarryd shares our strong passion for sustainability with an education in environmental science and is constantly looking for smarter ways to save the environment and reduce our footprints on our prescious planet earth!
If Jarryd is not busy picking, packing, dispatching, receiving or ordering your precious Brewing and Distilling supplies he is out on the trails running hard or on the hockey pitch as a gun mid-fielder for Hume HC. Besides running and hockey Jarryd's interested inclue music, gardening, travel (when permitted) and cruising around in his 1931 A-Model Ford.
Favourite Malt
Favourite Hops
Favourite Yeast
Favourite Beer Styles
- IPA
Current Brewing System:
- Guten 50L Single Vessel Brewery