Chris Barnard? who started Boston Breweries in Cape Town in 2000? remembers with a grimace how he battled for eight years to make a success of a passion that started when he was concocting homebrew in his garage. ?At times we were centimetres from shutting down?? he said. ?Then markets came along. People started wanting to buy their meat from butchers instead of supermarkets? their bread from the people who?d baked it.