A Brewer’s Guide to Opening a Nano Brewery: Your ,000 Brewery Consultant for (Volume 1)
Dan Woodske is the owner and operator of his own nanobrewery, Beaver Brewing Company in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania. Starting as an avid homebrewer he wondered why there wasn’t a brewery within an hour drive of his home…that’s when he decided to take his passion for brewing to the pro level. This book describes everything you need from buying brewery equipment, marketing your beer, licensing, running your brewing, and finding that perfect space. The process of opening a brewery can seem daunting, but in under 100 pages you will find brewing good beer is the hard part, the rest seems easy once it is all laid out for you. You want details on the licensing process? You want to learn how to sell your beer? You want real life examples on how a nanobrewery works and how it can be profitable? Then buy this book. Don’t spend ,000 on a consultant, spend and get info from someone that actually owns and operates a nano-brewery…and does it successfully.
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Great Starting Point,
I got this book on a Tuesday and had finished reading it by Wednesday evening. A great book for anyone considering starting a brewery or even just interested into a glimpse of what goes on behind the curtain. The author gives you insight into the day to day and the long term planning that it takes to start small and build. The core message of the book as I read it is stop waiting and get started.
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|Good encouragement/overview, short on nuts & bolts,
This book is full of practical guidance about approaching the subject of opening a nano brewery. The practicality is in approaching the thought process more than the actual doing. For instance Mr. Woodske doesn’t weigh the options of what type or even size of brewhouse equipment to set up. However he does discuss the needs of the brewhouse such as matching capacity-need-cost, milling grain, hops storage, yeast storage/propagation, etc. There is no real how to here concerning capital acquisition, brewing, space design, finding the right space, sorting paperwork requirements, etc. But again the author discusses how to approach each of these issues and explains/encourages with his own experience. For instance he handles your relationship with vendors, gives pointers on salesmanship, offers advice on customer relations, offers helpful thoughts on finding a space, encourages you to be as short and non-detailed as possible when filling out paperwork for the state (important to expediting the process and protecting you if things come back on you later), talks a lot about knowing your market-serving it-and learning from your mistakes, etc.
If you’re expecting a lot of charts and how-to-exacts you’ll be disappointed. However there are plenty of books out there which cover such things as start-up cost for restaurants etc. which will serve this purpose (I’ve got a couple of those on order). The value of this book will vary from reader to reader, but I can’t believe a book which takes less than a couple hours to get through would be anything except valuable if only for it’s encouragement relative to an idea most discourage.
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