Reality: average start-up time for a brewpub is 18-24 months. Good information in dontman's post.
Another Brewpub Startup Post... - ProBrewer Interactive
Good luck!
So, I was reading through this post and decided to check out their website. It looks like they started business in spring of '08 and I see that the recent post on their blog, someone bought them out and the owner is not too happy making a post in very sarcastic writing but so funny too.
You have to read this.
BLOGTAIL - FREETAIL BREWING CO.
Freetail Brewing Co. sold to MacroBev, Inc.
After months of negotiation, MacroBev, a Luxembourg-based beverage conglomerate, has announced the successful acquisition of Freetail Brewing Co. with operational control of the independently owned brewpub formally switching hands on April 31, 2009. Freetail expands MacroBevs line-up of craft brands it eventually hopes to erode and discontinue.
MacroBev CEO Carlos Sloof-Lipra said in a prepared statement that the industry giant would cut costs by automating Freetails 15-barrel brewery, eliminating two brewer positions; and revamping the menu to use pre-manufactured pizzas and frozen alco-popsicles from its subsidiary, GloboCorp. In these times of economic uncertainty, consumers want to know their product is made to the highest industrial manufacturing standards. Locally grown and fresh ingredients present a degree financial hardship and uncertainty that we seek to eliminate in a systematic and efficient approach, said Sloof-Lipra.
Freetail Founder and CEO Scott Metzger was unable to comment as part of a non-competition and gag-order clause included in the deal. Sources close to Metzger, however, say he is extremely distraught at what he characterized as another notch in the belt for foreign-owned corporate giants in the battle to crush the American dream.
Torpor Porter on tap please come get rid of it.
Torpor Porter has made its official return to the Freetail line up, and MacroBev marketing executives are encouraging customers to come drink it in order to make way for their lineup of mass-produced light lagers.
Customers simply do not want artisan, full-flavored brews in this economy, said MacroBev Associate Vice Executive Director of Marketing and Consumer Research Eliot *****er. Through our research we have found that consumers want to drink bland, watery and insipid brews dictated to them via clever marketing campaigns.
*****er hinted at the release of an Imperial series of American Light Lagers which will be highlighted in their Crunkability ad campaigns running nationwide.