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Starting a craft brewery is a big job. These resources will help you in both the planning process and the early stages of your brewery’s operations. Learn about everything from creating a financial plan and outlining your business goals, to selecting your equipment, designing your taproom, and brewing quality beer.

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The Financial Playbook for a Profitable Brewery

Craft Brewers Conference 2026Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaSpeaker(s): Jake Lohse, Kary Shumway

This session provides a practical financial playbook that teaches breweries how to track key metrics, implement effective management systems, avoid common pitfalls, and build the discipline needed to sustain and scale long-term profitability.Read More

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Contract Brewing: Production Best Practices

The Quality Subcommittee created a playlist of resources to highlight technical brewing aspects to consider when navigating contract brewing.Read More

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The Quality Subcommittee envisions a membership that consistently produces beer of high quality. Quality for this purpose has been defined as: a beer that is responsibly produced using wholesome ingredients, consistent brewing techniques and good manufacturing practices, which exhibits flavor characteristics that are consistently aligned with both the brewer’s and the beer drinker’s expectations.

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The New Brewer 2024 Industry Review
The New Brewer: Industry Review

2024 Overview

Bart Watson and Matt Gacioch

2024 was a challenging year for craft brewers, but adaptability kept small decreases from being substantially larger. However, this might be craft’s new environment

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Industry Review

For the May/June 2025 The New Brewer, we present our annual Industry Review issue. The issue provides an overview of the performance of craft breweries in 2024, which saw the overall segment down 4%. It includes in-depth analysis of each segment including brewpubs, taprooms, microbreweries, regional breweries, and large breweries/imports. Read More

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The New Brewer: Technical Brewing/Brewery Operations Issue

The Numbers Game: Understanding Financial Strategy for Your Brewery

Audra Gaiziunas

Brewing is a capital-intensive industry, so it's imperative to follow a path that brings the greatest return while conserving or boosting cash. Cash is the key to survival.

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