Mendooran distillery owner 'feels robbed' over Wollongong's failed Festival of Foam and Light

Kate McIlwain
Updated October 19 2019 - 6:38pm, first published October 15 2019 - 2:15pm
Conflicting information: Mendooran distiller Brian Hollingworth paid nearly $2000 to run a bar at the failed Festival of Foam and Light. PHOTO: Belinda Soole.
Conflicting information: Mendooran distiller Brian Hollingworth paid nearly $2000 to run a bar at the failed Festival of Foam and Light. PHOTO: Belinda Soole.

When Mendooran distillery owner Brian Hollingworth was asked to run the bar at a 20,000-capacity festival in Wollongong on the October long-weekend, he thought he was onto a good thing.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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