Distribution Agreements: Negotiate Your “PreNup” Carefully
Business people shaking hands, finishing up a papers signing. Meeting, contract and lawyer consulting concept. By: Brian D. Kaider, Esq. Starting a brewery requires learning a lot of new skills and practices that have nothing to do with making great beer. One of the most confusing and frustrating is the ...
HOP SENSORY: Benefit to Growers & Brewers
Just because something is fun to do, doesn’t mean there isn’t a robust science involved. Case in point: beer sensory. My relatives like to joke that they also studied beer sensory in college, but I think the readers will be aware of the difference between running a carefully randomized tetrad ...
Do’s & Don’ts of Opening Your Microbrewery
In The Microbrewery Handbook we discuss a variety of topics that can have a positive or negative impact on your brewery ranging from financials to operations to zoning, equipment and employee engagement. I wanted to share a few key do’s and don’ts of opening or operating your own microbrewery based ...
Suds & Soldiers: Beer and World War I, 1914-1919
By: Doran Cart, Senior Curator, National WWI Museum and Memorial By the time of World War I, which started in 1914, beer was already an ancient beverage made and consumed by most the nations involved in the war. In light of the long history already written about beer, this article ...
Profiling Software: Used by the Breweries, Cideries, and Distilleries
By: Becky Garrison As we enter into a new decade, an increasing number of breweries, cideries and distilleries are moving from recording their finances, employee logs and other data from offline pen and pencil accounting methods to online software systems. Here’s a sampling of some of the latest techno-logical developments ...
MAN VERSUS MACHINE: Options in the World of End-of-Line Packaging
By: Cheryl Gray Quality, efficiency and speed are but a few of the attributes assigned to best practices when it comes to end-of-line packaging. Craft breweries and distilleries that make the change from manual to automatic or, in some cases, combine the best of both worlds, have a universal goal: ...
Innovative Bottling Systems Allow Craft Brewers to Adjust to Trends
By: Gerald Dlubala While tastes for craft beer are as individual as each customer that walks into your tasting room, the reasons to package your craft beer in a bottle remain consistent whether manually capping a few bottles or running a high-speed bottling machine around the clock. You want that ...
The Best Tanks and Tank Systems for Distilleries
By: Alyssa L. Ochs Tanks are an essential part of operating a distillery, and there is a lot to know about this particular type of equipment. While there have been many improvements made to tanks and tank systems in recent years, distillers are still looking for more features and options ...
Niagara-on-the-Lake: Canada’s Growing Beer and Wine Destination
By: Alyssa Andres Over the past few decades, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, has become known as one of Canada’s premier destinations for wine. The historical region of Canada sees thousands of tourists each year who come to experience the tastes of Niagara. While there is no shortage of spectacular wine tasting to ...
New & Notable in Canada: Crickets, Craft Beer Superfans and a New Seal of Authenticity for Craft Breweries
By: Briana Tomkinson At the end of 2019, Canada reached a new milestone with over 1000 craft breweries and brewpubs in operation from coast-to-coast. Not surprisingly, the year also saw the launch of a new national federation of craft brewers associations to lobby the federal government on na-tional policies that ...
