I’ve been writing these past months about what a great time it is to open a brewery because locations are now available and used equipment is cheap IF you have a good concept and a strong business system to back it up.
This feels like a particularly scary time to be planning/opening, with the difficulties so many existing breweries are facing with significant drops in revenue.
So many great points you make on how to craft a unique destination and run it profitably. I find myself analyzing every brewery we visit through that lens.
I've frozen my own brewery planning as we try to figure out housing and where we may want to move.
The thing that saddens me is that there seem far fewer people these days into the joy of visiting craft breweries. I very much understand that industries mature and the previous growth that allowed nearly any outfit to prosper for a time is over. But many people have moved on to other things and the group excitement I think has diminished.
Not for us. Bringing our dog to as many breweries as her lifespan will allow.
This feels like a particularly scary time to be planning/opening, with the difficulties so many existing breweries are facing with significant drops in revenue.
So many great points you make on how to craft a unique destination and run it profitably. I find myself analyzing every brewery we visit through that lens.
I've frozen my own brewery planning as we try to figure out housing and where we may want to move.
The thing that saddens me is that there seem far fewer people these days into the joy of visiting craft breweries. I very much understand that industries mature and the previous growth that allowed nearly any outfit to prosper for a time is over. But many people have moved on to other things and the group excitement I think has diminished.
Not for us. Bringing our dog to as many breweries as her lifespan will allow.