Business Innovator: Amazon Beer Cervejaria

The high wall that separates Amazon Beer’s brewery and bottling plant from the teeming jungle hardly holds back the snakes, monkeys and giant hairy spiders. But invasive animals are only one of the challenges faced by Arlindo Guimarães and his son Caio in developing the only craft brewery in the Amazon.

“A lot of people thought my dad was crazy,” says Caio, 27, as he leads me on a tour of the plant in Belém, capital of Brazil’s vast northwestern state of Pará. It’s easy to see why they might think so. The jungle’s intense heat and humidity affect the...

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