Summer Brewery Start Up Series

Vintage Bellingham Bay Brewery

I was speaking with someone recently about cost for equipment for a packaging brewery, and once you ask this question, it only brings up many others. So I’ve been thinking about breweries in general, and how I would go about opening one up.

There are three types of brewery that I want to address: Packaging Brewery, Tasting Room Brewery and Brewpub. Each one is different in costs and logistics and is too big to cover in one sitting. Rather I think I will break it up into a small paper on each beginning next week.

I’d like to discuss what type of location for each and what will save the most money. Also what to look for in that location. I also want to throw some numbers at you for cost of equipment and a general ballpark on what it would cost to build and outfit the space. Hmmm, it’s a lot of info and I don’t know if I can fit it all into one article per brewery, but I’ll try.

We will start with packaging breweries next week. Until then, happy Summer!