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Building a Small Brewpub - Intro
I was thinking about what to write about this week and not having a lot of luck. Mainly I write about the business aspect of building a brewery for…
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Food Trucks
I found out the hard way that to serve more beer in your brewery, most folks want to eat too. When we opened Colorado Boy in 2008, I had already had…
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One Switch
Along the lines of last weeks’ post about keeping it simple, I want to talk about my brew-day and the simplicity of only having one switch to deal with…
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March 2024

KISS
It's been said before
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Literacy
I want to talk about literacy this week. Anyone reading this probably wonders about my own grasp on the subject due to my many misspellings and grammar…
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Competitive Edge
Good Beer Is Not Good Enough
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Labor Deep Dive
Last week I showed how a nano could make money and the work sheet I used is the same one I use to make a monthly budget, which includes my daily budget…
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Can a Nano Make Money?
Let's see...
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February 2024

It's hard to open a brewery. It's easy to make it successful.
Why then, do brewers only choose the first part??
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Brewery Retrofit Case Study
I thought this would be an interesting exercise for this week. I am helping someone add a brewery to their existing restaurant/coffeehouse and it has…
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The Business Operating System Now Available
I published this last year as an e-book but received a lot of requests to put it out in paperback. It’s a small book that explains how to integrate a…
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Simplify Your Brewpub Service System
We ate at a cool little Mexican restaurant in Telluride the other day. It’s hard to find something affordable in that town. I was impressed at how…
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