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Craft Beverage
Do’s & Don’ts of Opening
Your Microbrewery
I n The Microbrewery Handbook to a lack of focus on other important pieces of run-
ning a successful operation. Let’s dive into some
(Advertised on page 10) we discuss a vari-
ety of topics that can have a positive or
negative impact on your brewery ranging do’s and don’ts.
from financials to operations to zoning, equipment Do What you Know &
and employee engagement. Know What You Don’t
I wanted to share a few key do’s and don’ts of Ego gets the best of all of us at one time or anoth-
opening or operating your own microbrewery er. We think we know how to do something; we
based on our experience opening Perfect Plain think we know the right way to handle something,
Brewing Co., a taproom-focused brewery in the we think we have the objectivity or perspective to
heart of downtown Pensacola, Fla. make a sound decision on something. And some-
times, after it fails, we realize that perhaps we
We often focus on the part of the business we are could have used some help.
passionate about: Beer. That’s understandable, but
in an ever-evolving market, it can sometimes lead This happens all the time in business. Would
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