


Human Resource for Non Human Resource People
Once again, Corkie and her panel of human resource professionals from the craft brewing industry share information regarding everything from labor laws to creating a great workplace culture. Read More

What I Learned During My Rookie Year
Jamil leads a panel of recent start-up brewers to discuss some of the trials and battle scars in the models of packaging brewery, alternating proprietorship and contract. Read More

Writing Your Brewery Business Plan
Christian provides an overview of what it takes to create a solid business plan specific to the brewing industry. Read More
Ramping Up Server Training
When you have a well-trained staff, you will see an increase in profits as they help increase revenue while lowering costs. As someone who was born and raised in the restaurant industry, I learned a valuable lesson very early on while …Read More
Hear, Hear! Shift Meetings for Beer
By: Larry Chase, head brewer at Standing Stone Brewing Co. Knowledge is the queen and king of sales. In other words, the more your staff knows about the beer they are selling, the better they will be at selling it. And that’s …Read More
Our House is a Very, Very Fine House
By: Tom Dargen, Director of Brewing Operations, Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurants/CraftWorks Restaurants and Breweries Inc. For as long as there have been restaurants—probably the world’s second oldest profession—there has been occasional conflict between the “back of the house” where the food is …Read More
Shift Reports and Managing the Front of House
The 80/20 Rule essentially says that on the average you’ll spend 80 percent of your time dealing with 20 percent of the problems on a day-to-day basis. This is generally true at each level of an organization, whether you’re the …Read More
How Much Does Your Beer Really Cost?
Scott Metzger of Freetail Brewing Co in San Antonio, TX offers advise on how to "Establishing an effective beer costing program in the Brewpub". Read More

Managing Growth Issue
For the March/April 2012 The New Brewer, we present our Managing Growth issue. In this issue, we take a look at topics such as expansion, contract brewing, scaling back distribution, and craft beer’s economic resilience. We also provide a preview of San Diego as host city of the 2012 Craft Brewers Conference. Read More