Longtime friends.
First-time brewery owners.
No regrets (yet).
How It Started
We started Bangarang because we were tired of the same night out. We figured you might be, too.
We’ve been best friends since high school and were roommates at UGA (go Dawgs). After college, Adam became a high school teacher and Josh went into startups, where he learned a bunch of things that would eventually make opening a brewery slightly less stupid.
Then at some point we convinced our friends to split the cost of a homebrew kit.
Everyone brewed once. Adam never stopped.
The first beers weren’t great. Some were pretty bad, honestly. But Adam got obsessed with it. He joined a homebrew club, started volunteering at breweries, entered competitions, and eventually started winning Best of Shows. What started as screwing around in the garage slowly turned into, “Wait, could we actually do this?” A thought famously never had by two guys who got pretty good at homebrewing.
Eventually the beer got good enough and the idea got serious enough that we decided to go for it.
Bangarang came from a lot of late nights, test batches, road trips, spreadsheets, dumb ideas, good ideas, and changing the plan about 400 times. But the thing we wanted to build never really changed.
We want Bangarang to be the place you text the group chat about.
Not because it’s fancy. Not because someone told you it’s the cool place to go. Just because every time you’re there, you have a really good time.
That’s kind of what Bangarang means to us.
It’s saying yes when staying home would’ve been easier. It’s a dumb idea becoming something you do every year. It’s cannonballing into the pool even though you’re 36. It’s looking around halfway through the night and thinking, “How the hell did we end up here?”
Basically, life is better when you’re having a little more fun than you’re supposed to.
So come hang. Bring a friend. Bring two. Bring your dad if he’s cool.
And whatever you do . . .
Be Bangarang.
– Josh & Adam