Thursday, December 30, 2010
Starting off..
So I decided to do challenge myself. I have wanted to own my own brewery now for some time. But like many of you once we get into it, we find out how much it is really going to cost and how much money down we will have to pay for a loan to that caliber. I am taking the challenge now to go as small as I have to, but start my own brewery and hopefully show others out there you can do it too. My plan is to start off small by selling home brew supplies in one half of my store, and brew my own delicious beer in the other half. I figured I would be a lot like the great Dogfish Head Brewery when they first started off. I will try and start with a 1-3 BBL system and brew 8 to 10 hours a day. Sam Calagione from Dogfish Head was able to do this so why can't many others? My objective is to show you guys that it can be done and to see many more breweries open up around the United States. I believe that the best tasting beers are ones that come from the basements of homeowners and the ones from the smaller breweries. I will be contacting all sorts of different businesses in this type of business already for direction and help.
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Keep in mind that while Sam C. did start brewing on a 10 gallon sabco and eventually great a 5BBL system, etc... He had a full restaurant and over $220K to carry and fund his project. Mind you this was back in 1995 when the market was relatively wide open. That is strikingly different than what your proposing. Brewing is a tough business and it works off of volume and that's were nano's get stuck, not to mention QC, and trying to pay the bills and buy materials for the next brew day off of what little you have coming in. Also there is the issue of experience, every industry is different, but would you open a high-end furniture building business charging a premium on your goods, only having built an end table in shop class, I would say most likely no. That's what you must realize about "owning" a brewery. Not saying it can't be done, but you have a ways to go. Best of luck, lots of research ahead of you.
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