Dustin Hauck knew he wanted to go into business for himself, and in November 2011, after many years spent working on hospitality projects, he did just that. The timing couldn’t have been worse. The economy was in the worst possible place, but he took on lots of small projects and was able to hold on until there was more business out there to be had. By then, a trend was in motion that would allow him to work with business owners in an industry he had great interest — craft brewing.
“When I started working on our brewery Dustin, he had five or so clients,” said Curtis Chism, owner of Council Brewing Company in Kearny Mesa. “By the time the project was finished, he was working with a list of 25 breweries.” Having marveled at this list of clients firsthand, I have come to regard Hauck as being to brewery architecture what Premier Stainless Systems is to brewing systems; a guy so well-regarded for what he brings to the table that almost everybody opening a brewery utilizes his skills.