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We all know that bringing beer and food together can offer valuable expriences to consumers and eleveate both the beer and food. The resources in this section, including the CraftBeer.com Beer & Food Course, cover everything you need to know about beer and food, from beer and food pairing, to menu development and pricing strategy, to the logistics of hosting a beer dinner.

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CBC 2024 Beer & Food Seminars

In these seminars, experts discuss strategies for menu building, cocktail design, non-alcohol options, and the financial benefits of adding food, offering practical advice for creating a memorable taproom experience.Read More

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Education Program Manager

MacKenzie Staples is the education program manager for the Brewers Association. In addition to managing the resources and articles on BrewersAssociation.org, she organizes the seminars for the Craft Brewers Conference® (CBC), curates the webinars in the BA Collab Hour series, and serves as the staff liaison for the CBC Seminar Subcommittee. She is originally from Texas where she fell in love with craft beer, and is proud to say that she has visited over 800 U.S. small and independent craft breweries.

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Who’s Hungry? Strategies for Adding Food to Your Taproom

Craft Brewers Conference 2024Las Vegas, NevadaSpeaker(s): Andrew Coplon, Jake Nunes, Kary Shumway, Elise Strupp

Breweries are recognizing the importance of offering more than just great beer, with food becoming a key aspect of the taproom experience. This session explores the benefits of adding food, financial considerations, and insights from breweries that have successfully implemented food options, offering practical advice for enhancing taproom profitability and memorability.Read More

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A Full Pour: How To Build Out Food and Beverage Menus to Create a More Inviting Space and Drive Profits

Craft Brewers Conference 2024Las Vegas, NevadaSpeaker(s): Sarah Jane Curran, Stephen Toevs

With a booming brewery scene in the U.S., competition is fierce, and quality standards are high. Sarah Jane Curran and Chef Stephen Toevs from Marriott Headquarters discuss strategies for breweries to enhance their food and beverage menus, covering food menu building, cocktail design, and non-alcoholic options for profitability.Read More

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Onsite Timing Trends 2024

Is now a good time to have a beer? It's not a rhetorical question. Explore the nuance of time of day and day of week onsite brewery trends pulled from Arryved point-of-sale data.Read More

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Staff Economist

Matt Gacioch (he/him), staff economist for the Brewers Association, helps members make sense of the data that enable their businesses to thrive. He brings experience from market analytics, brewery operations, and consulting, along with an MBA, MS, and BS from the University of Michigan. Follow him on Instagram @craft_econ

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Onsite Sales Trends 2024

Sales dynamics are evolving rapidly in modern taprooms and brewpubs. Keep up with part one of this series exploring draught-retail mix, item category sales breakdown, and average tab size. Your customers are speaking to you through data. Are you listening?Read More

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Staff Economist

Matt Gacioch (he/him), staff economist for the Brewers Association, helps members make sense of the data that enable their businesses to thrive. He brings experience from market analytics, brewery operations, and consulting, along with an MBA, MS, and BS from the University of Michigan. Follow him on Instagram @craft_econ

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Diving Into POS Data and Trends With Arryved

Chief Economist Bart Watson dives into 300 million transactions from Arryved POS data to pull out the latest trends and insights.Read More

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President & CEO

Bart Watson, president and chief executive officer for the Brewers Association, is a stats geek, beer lover, and Certified Cicerone. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where in addition to his dissertation, he completed a comprehensive survey of Bay Area brewpubs one pint at a time. You can follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @BrewersStats.

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Engagement with Beer

Tips for engaging customers in a meaningful sensory experience with your beers through staff training, events, and knowledge sharing.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Taprooms Committee's main objective is to foster the sharing of resources and ideas between taproom class breweries. As taproom brewery revenue is generated mainly from onsite sales, the committee’s job is to create resources that help breweries find ways to get customers to come to the taproom, stay a while, and keep coming back.

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In-House Food and Food Vendors

There are so many options for food in your taproom. How do you decide which one is the best choice to elevate your business?Read More

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Brewers Association

The Taprooms Committee's main objective is to foster the sharing of resources and ideas between taproom class breweries. As taproom brewery revenue is generated mainly from onsite sales, the committee’s job is to create resources that help breweries find ways to get customers to come to the taproom, stay a while, and keep coming back.

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Taproom Member Interview: In-House Food and Food Vendors

Committee member Michelle Yovich shares her story to find the mix of in-house vs. outside food vendors at her brewery, Mountain Cowboy.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Taprooms Committee's main objective is to foster the sharing of resources and ideas between taproom class breweries. As taproom brewery revenue is generated mainly from onsite sales, the committee’s job is to create resources that help breweries find ways to get customers to come to the taproom, stay a while, and keep coming back.

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The New Brewer: Sales & Marketing Issue

Life of the Party

Gabe Toth

Fermentation, whether vegetables, meat, grain, or other ingredients, is a fundamental force in our lives, as evidenced in this excerpt from The Fermentation Kitchen.

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