Craft-brewed success

摘要

About five years ago, Christopher Salm was a finance and technology consultant, while his lifelong friend, Eric Romberg, was a mortgage lending professional. Both desired a career change and wanted to go into business together. "We originally were dead-set on pursuing craft brewing as a career and spent several years researching it. But new microbreweries began popping up in just about every town across the country. Growing up around the meat industry, I learned about Salm Partners LLC's unique processing technologies [including collagen co-extrusion, cook-in package production systems] and thought, 'Let's apply the same technologies of producing craft beer to craft sausage,'" Salm explains. "Gilbert's Craft Sausages, Wheaton, Ill., was formed in April 2010 and by June 2010 I quit my former job to be with Gilbert's full-time. Eric soon joined me and we are now co-owners of the business."