Bluetongue's manufacturing director and chief beer-maker tours his company's soon-to-be-completed new $120 million Warnervale brewery like a kid itching to be set loose in a lollie shop.

"Beautiful," he says, surveying the towering battalion of rocket-like fermentation vats, which were recently erected on site after being shipped in from China in November.

The largest tank can hold the equivalent of 800,000 bottles of beer, and it's enough to make Mr Williams' mouth water. "It's a passion," the 24-year brewing veteran says of his craft.

"Straight after high school I started in a brew pub in Melbourne and have been doing it ever since."

Along the way Mr Williams joined international brewing giant SAB Miller, which owns the Bluetongue label in partnership with Coca-Cola Amatil.

And he has made beer in numerous countries, including South Africa, Hungary and Russia.

"Tim is one of only 17 master brewers in Australia," Bluetongue marketing manager Sarah Dennis said of the qualification bestowed by the international Institute of Brewing and Distilling.