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What Happens to Your Brewery After… You?

Even brewery owners who opened their businesses in the past decade may be able to see retirement or another chapter on the horizon. The time to plan for that future? Right now.

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Photo: Courtesy Bale Breaker and Cloudburst
Photo: Courtesy Bale Breaker and Cloudburst

Dick Cantwell wrote the book on how to start your own brewery, but the Elysian founder didn’t include a chapter on how to end it.

Earlier this year, that fact was on the mind of one of Cantwell’s protégés, Steve Luke, as he prepared to sell Cloudburst, the acclaimed Seattle brewery he’d founded in 2015.

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