On-Premise Craft Data
GuestMetrics provides on-premise data to view craft beer sales trends across the country. Read More
What Every Brewer Should Know About Trademark, Copyright and Advertising Law
Branding and marketing your beer takes creativity, hard work, time and money, but there are also legal questions that craft brewers ignore at their peril. This panel brings together a craft brewer and an experienced trademark and copyright lawyer who …Read More
Distribution Agreements and 3-Tier System
This discussion will allow brewers, marketers and managers to understand various laws regarding distribution and advertising to better understand what steps they must take on the front end to protect their companies from liabilities and disputes. There will be opportunity …Read More
Allies or Competitors
With so many new breweries coming on board, inevitably they are located more closely together. Claudia discusses whether this strains the customer base and if breweries should work together to educate the public on the pleasures of craft beer to …Read More
Service IS Beer Sales!
In a brewpub, you know the WHAT (beer ingredients, flavors, styles, etc.) needed to train your staff about beer. Now learn HOW to train your service staff to be beer salespeople, from the new hire to the experienced staffer, with …Read More
Drink Beer, Think Food: Crafting Beer-Inspired Food Pairing Strategies
Today’s craft beer is dynamic and flavor-driven. Big beers deserve more than onion rings! With beer shaping the overall flavor platform, beer and food pairing is quickly evolving into a total sensory experience. Celebrate your craftmanship with the pleasures of …Read More
Craft Beer Distributor Criteria
Fred Matt, along with representatives from the BA and NBWA, provides information on how distributors can can become craft beer-friendly and thus be eligibile for the Craft Beer Distributor of the Year Award. Read More
Keeping More: A Simple Guide to Stopping Profits from Going Down the Drain
Brewing the best beer in the world will not keep a brewery in business if it cannot be done at a profit. Nick Funnell will address very simple steps to ensure that beer made at a profit and more of …Read More