"At heart, I am an engineer, so my interest is to see my products proliferate. I want to see them end up in as many people’s hands and make as many people happy as possible"
Peter Egelston, president of Smuttynose Brewing Co., was largely responsible for breathing life into the nascent microbrewery industry — brewers that make no more than 15,000 barrels per year — in New England back in the 1980s. In 1987, he…