During his second year of university in 1996, Steve Byfield was looking for part-time employment, and found a job as a customer service agent at The Brew Factory — where customers could make their own beer and wine.
Hamilton-based Byfield — who was born and raised in Kitchener to Jamaican immigrants — said he was immediately “bitten by the wine bug” and was so “intrigued with winemaking” that his plan to teach music went out the window.