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B ricker Table of Contents

Group, LLC

President & Publisher
Jeffrey D. Bricker

Vice President & Editor
Cyndi C. Bowlby

Assistant Editor
Jessica Spengler

Sales Manager Craft Beverage
Jo Cloud

Senior Account Executives
Jayme Brown Distribution Agreements:
Negotiate Your “PreNup” Carefully ...................4

Staff Writers Do’s & Don’ts of Opening Your
Gerald Dlubala Microbrewery ...............................................8
Becky Garrison
Cheryl Gray
Erik Myers Innovative Bottling Systems Allow Craft
Alyssa Andres Brewers to Adjust to Trends ...........................12
Briana Tomkinson
Alyssa Ochs Increasing Brewery Cash Flow:
Craft Breweries and the R&D Credit ...............18

Craft Beverage Practice
Baker Tilly Profiling Software for Breweries, Cideries
Incentive Solutions and Distilleries .............................................22
Kaider Law
Yakima Chief Producers Incentivize Techniques to Help
Them Get to Market .....................................26

Bricker Group, LLC Man Versus Machine:
805 Central Ave., Suite 304 Options in the World of End-of-Line Packaging 34
P.O. Box 1590 • Fort Dodge, IA 50501
E-mail: editor@BrickerPublishing.com The Best Tanks & Tank Systems for Distilleries .38
Website: www.BrickerPublishing.com Suds & Soldiers:
BEVERAGE MASTER targets the Craft Beverage market Beer and World War 1, 1914-1919 .................42
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Canada’s Growing Beer & Wine Destination ..........52
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