I started my own brewery, Sparkle, three years ago with no brewing experience and just the kind of energy you only have when you're starting from scratch.
Two years running the brewpub, then we stepped into wholesale. Within months, I was experiencing something you probably know well: revenue that depends on trade buyers who order when it suits them and pay when it suits them, while your cold room and your bank account carry the weight in between.
So I leaned on my digital marketing and coding background and built a Beer Club for the brewery on Shopify. Custom-coded end to end. Day one, 18 people signed up. For a brewery with only 2,000 Instagram followers, that wasn't a huge number. But it was proof. Today we're at 38 members and climbing.
That's when it clicked. The real upside isn't for a brewery our size. It's for the ones who've spent years building an audience. The same system can take them to six figures.
That's what made me turn what I'd built for Sparkle into a separate project called RIWAKA: helping breweries turn the audience they've already built into recurring, direct revenue.
Thank you for taking the time to consider working with me.
If you have any questions, reach me anytime at
antoine@riwaka.xyz.