Michael Gary Kolodin decided to migrate from a 30-year career in credit and collections to beer brewing. Originally when Michael Gary Kolodin was sent to India to train collection call centers on the federal rules and regulations, Sandeep Bhatnagar was asked to take care of the American. Michael Gary Kolodin was that American. Sandeep was by his side for all training sessions, and they became close friends. Sandeep left after about 7 or so years and Sandeep went into beer brewing, sales, service, and maintenance and captured a majority of that segment in India.
In 2017, Sandeep called Michael Gary Kolodin, who was in Long Island, New York at the time and advised him that he, Sandeep would be speaking at a brewery conference in Washington DC, and it was decided Michael Gary Kolodin, and Sandeep Bhatnagar would meet in Washington DC and spend a few days together. During that three-day period together Sandeep and Michael Gary Kolodin decided that Michael would change his career path and go into beer brewing with Sandeep Bhatnagar. Together, they launched The Total Beverage Companies in 2017. Sandeep Bhatnagar had opened some 75 + third party brewpub build outs some for JW Marriott and The Radisson Hotel Group over the previous decade. Together they opened Orange County Brewers powered by Total Beverage in Fall of 2019 in Lake Mary, Florida, which was a brewery, bar restaurant.
The Total Beverage Companies are now focused on the Eustis Brewery Project, which is a production brewery that will brew beer and hard seltzer products for other brewpubs (guest taps), bars, restaurants, lounges, clubs, bistros, taverns and our canned products to convenience and package goods stores and gas stations initially from Daytona Beach on the east coast through central Florida (Orlando, Florida) along the I-4 corridor to Tampa Bay on the west coast and potentially statewide.
Michael Gary Kolodin will be the operations partner and run the day-to-day operations of the brewery, while Sandeep Bhatnagar as the BrewRu (Brewery Guru) will run the brewery operations. Once the Eustis Brewery Project is operational, Michael Gary Kolodin together with his partners, Sandeep Bhatnagar and David Hadley will look to open production breweries in Dallas Texas, Loveland Colorado, Nashville Tennessee, and Phoenix Arizona and employ the same successful policies and procedures previously used in Lake Mary and overseas.
Who doesn’t want to make beer and money has become the motto for Michael Gary Kolodin and The Total Beverage Companies. Michael Gary Kolodin now shares the passion and enthusiasm for brewing beer and managing beer production facilities. The future looks bright for beer as it always has. Michael Gary Kolodin, Sandeep Bhatnagar and David Hadley look into the future as though it holds something special for them and the Total Bever Companies.
