Meet the entrepreneurs behind Sparkman Wharf’s new waterfront biergarten


WHO THEY ARE: Joel Bigham and Dan Charley are the business partners behind Fermented Reality, the biergarten coming to Sparkman Wharf.

Their Business backgrounds: Bigham’s career experience includes IT, consulting and internet marketing. He got into craft beer in 2009, just before the scene exploded in Florida, and entered the industry almost by accident.

In 2013, he was planning a trip to Sarasota to meet up with his brother. He wanted to take his “swanky glassware” — especially a…

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