HIX MICROBREWERY - Key Persons

Amy is our social media and marketing extraordinaire! Amy took on this roll with gusto in 2020, she has managed to make everything look just as good online as it does in person!

Andrew was the Junior Australian white water kayaking champion 2 years, not too long ago! Andrew planted 22 vineyards on the Mornington Peninsula in its early days, establishing Pinot noir and Chardonnay as most suitable for the local climate. He has been the head winemaker for the Dromana vineyard from the initial harvest in 1990, and now sharing this role with Jamie.

Corey started working for us at the start of 2021, he has extensive experience dealing with cool climate verities and takes care and passion each step of wine making process, from the curation of the vineyard all the way to bottling. His wine making style uses natural ferments with minimal intervention allowing the fruit and terroir to speak for itself. Corey has been in the wine making industry since 2008, he has worked at many local Mornington Peninsula wineries including Red Hill Estate, Portsea Estate and Morning Sun Vineyard. He has even taken his wine making skills internationally, working at William Selyem in the Russian river of California. For the last 5 years he was the head wine maker at D'Angelo Estate Vineyard, but wanted to come back to where he grew up; the beautiful Mornington Peninsula!

Jake Hickinbotham is leading the next generation of the family into the business by carefully tending to our Hix beer range ensuring it continues to grow. Jake also makes up one half of the Jakcal's Run name. If he's not reminiscing on his indoor soccer career, Jake can be found on top of a mountain or travelling the world tasting the best beers to make ours better.

BSc, major in Botany and Microbiology. Terryn spent 12 years at Melbourne Uni in the Botany Dept. researching the importance of pollen in many aspects, ant pollen interactions, pollen allergens and general pollen biology. She went on to teach at the Plant Taxonomy unit at Chisholm Institute Rosebud Land Management for 10 years till 2014. You'll now see Terryn's smiling face as our full time cellar door inhabitant, and is also a permanent member of ‘Ling Marra' an all female A capella singing group.