Longhawl Brewing Company was founded by Paul & Kiantki in early 2016. Paul and Kiantki became friends in Switzerland around 7 years earlier, after leading remarkably similar lives earlier on, travelling the world playing professional sports – Kiantki played on the ATP Tennis Tour and Paul played professional Beach Volleyball in Australia and the US. A pair of long and winding roads, taking in some 80-odd countries over a period of 20 years, saw them both settle down in the same quiet village in central Switzerland, where they met through their Swiss wives, and soon became regular beer-buddies.