Finance

With rents increasing and sales growth slowing, keeping costs in check can make or break a brewing business.

Martin Saylor and John D. Wagner 1st West Mergers & Acquisitions explain how to credit COVID-19 losses to earnings when selling or recapitalizing your company.

This St. Louis brewery was making highly regarded beer, but that wasn’t enough to keep it going in a tightening market. Here, Founder and Brewer Kyle Kohlmorgen shares lessons learned in the getting to open—and then having to shut down—his dream.

Be skeptical. Do your due diligence, diligently. Boost the odds that your new brewhouse will actually reach your brewery, and your fermentor purchase will improve your future—not tank it.

More breweries are resorting to crowd funding, but it’s not enough to put a hand out. You need to have a plan and execute it well.

One of the most common causes of brewery change of control or bankruptcy is mismanaging debt. Kary Shumway, CFO of Wormtown Brewery, spoke with Jamie Bogner about ways that breweries can use debt constructively without letting that debt run the business.

If constant change is the new normal, brewers must learn to continuously flex and adapt by developing fine-tuned abilities to sense, shape, and respond to each key consumer trend and market development.

In this case study, David Butler looks at the valuation of a large (~18K bbl) operation with a distribution + taproom model, and explains the valuation process in detail.

This isn't a deep dive into what Bitcoin or blockchain technology is (you can Google that) but an examination of how cryptocurrency could impact the craft-beer industry.

You know how much money you have in your checking account. As a brewery owner, you also need to know the value of your business.