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Home - el Khazen Family Prince of Maronites : Lebanese Families Keserwan Lebanon
Meet Mazen Hajjar, frothing brewer from Beirut
Written by Malek
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Lebanese craft brewer Mazen Hajjar has evolved from airline chief executive and war photographer to brewer.

by goodfood.com.au

Former war photographer and airline chief executive isn't the usual career trajectory for an emerging craft beer brewer. But that's the path Beirut-born Mazen Hajjar trod before building his company, Hawkers Beer. Although the Reservoir brewery was founded just 2½ years ago, it put down roots much earlier. According to Hajjar, he started the Middle East's first craft brewery, 961 (the country code for Lebanon), during the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. After a trip to Australia to sell his beer, he decided to start a brewery here.

Chef Joseph Abboud (right) has collaborated with Lebanese craft brewer Mazen Hajjar for Hawkers Beer in Reservoir.

Chef Joseph Abboud (right) has collaborated with Lebanese craft brewer Mazen Hajjar for Hawkers Beer in Reservoir.   When the business opened, initially in partnership with Joseph Abboud (owner of Melbourne restaurants Rumi and the Moor's Head), it was able to produce 600,000 litres of beer a year. Six upgrades later it has capacity for 6.5 million litres a year. Hajjar and his team are committed to sustainable brewing practices. The beer's ingredients don't include chemicals, with brewing techniques inspired by tradition as well as experimentation. The brewery is home to one of Australia's most high-tech brewing systems and can package 6000 bottles an hour. It also has the largest solar rooftop energy system on a brewery in metropolitan Melbourne. It is a nose bleed to manage such growth.

 

Mazen Hajjar

Spent grain used in the brewing process, normally dumped by breweries, is given to local farmers to feed their angus herds. The brewery aims to waste nothing – currently 90 per cent of its waste is recycled.

But it doesn't just produce a sustainable product – the beer tastes great, too. The business won the Supreme Champion Brewer award at the 2016 International Beer Challenge in London, and won 12 medals at the recent Australian International Beer Awards.

At the moment the team is expanding the business nationally, working on plans to launch in Western Australia, NSW and the ACT.

Hawkers pale ale.
Hawkers pale ale. Photo: Wayne Taylor

"We only have the Northern Territory left and we will have national coverage," says Hajjar. "We are also working on a New Zealand launch and possibly opening two more new markets in the next six months."

Khazen History

      

 

Historical Feature:

Churches and Monasteries of the Khazen family

St. Anthony of Padua Church in Ballouneh
Mar Abda Church in Bakaatit Kanaan
Saint Michael Church in Bkaatouta
Saint Therese Church in Qolayaat
Saint Simeon Stylites (مار سمعان العامودي) Church In Ajaltoun
Virgin Mary Church (سيدة المعونات) in Sheilé
Assumption of Mary Church in Ballouneh

1 The sword of the Maronite Prince
2 LES KHAZEN CONSULS DE FRANCE
3 LES MARONITES & LES KHAZEN
4 LES MAAN & LES KHAZEN
5 ORIGINE DE LA FAMILLE
 

Population Movements to Keserwan - The Khazens and The Maans

ما جاء عن الثورة في المقاطعة الكسروانية 

ثورة أهالي كسروان على المشايخ الخوازنة وأسبابها

Origins of the "Prince of Maronite" Title

Growing diversity: the Khazin sheiks and the clergy in the first decades of the 18th century

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   Barbar Beik El Khazen [English]
  
 Patriach Toubia Kaiss El Khazen(Biography & Life Part1 Part2) (Arabic)
 
  Patriach Youssef Dargham El Khazen (Cont'd)
  
 Cheikh Bishara Jafal El Khazen 
   
 Patriarch Youssef Raji El Khazen
  
 The Martyrs Cheikh Philippe & Cheikh Farid El Khazen
  
 Cheikh Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
  
 Cheikh Hossun El Khazen (Consul De France)
  
 Cheikh Abou-Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France) 
  
 Cheikh Francis Abee Nader & his son Yousef 
  
 Cheikh Abou-Kanso El Khazen (Consul De France)
  
 Cheikh Abou Nader El Khazen
  
 Cheikh Chafic El Khazen
  
 Cheikh Keserwan El Khazen
  
 Cheikh Serhal El Khazen [English] 

    Cheikh Rafiq El Khazen  [English]
   
Cheikh Hanna El Khazen

    Cheikha Arzi El Khazen

 

 

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