fair enough but I've found that most people planning a brewery, at least here in VA, don't think about some relatively obvious stuff on the FOH/tasting room side that becomes a major headache after they've spent their startup budget, even people who've worked in breweries before.
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reverseapachemaster1
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There is a southeast Asian restaurant in Dallas with a couple locations that brew beer on Blichmann homebrewing equipment. Food is great. Beer is pretty much what you would expect.
SirDickButts
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here's the nano im talking about...
i saw this post and said "wooooooooow," but hey...they're in business, eh...
boogercrack
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TBR did about the same and now they've got a huge ass taproom in the middle of a trailer park, so hey, dreams can come true.
Also, I really want to know if 160ft brewing actually did look up the Woodlands on Wikipedia during the brainstorming for a name session and say, "hey guys!! it says right here the elevation is 160 ft high, and I'm really high, so let's call our brewery 160ft brewing".
That's just how I want to believe it happened.
SirDickButts
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SOLD. im opening a brick and mortar homebrewing garage. time to slang some l33t homebrew bangers.
i think you might be on to something.
hornydevil
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There's a licensed brewery here locally that has a 1/2 bbl SABCO system in their garage, brews three times on Saturday, and sells the 3 sixtels to local bars.
WTF told these guys how to run a business?
SirDickButts
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iono, but they're doing it! are their beers good...at least?
hornydevil
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Can't remember ever having one of their beers, but I've heard they're decent. 3 sixtels every week doesn't go very far. Looking to expand, too. Certainly wish them the best, but transitioning from a homebrew setup to a professional setup involves a pretty steep learning curve.
Saugusbrewer
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Looks about the same size as Night Shift's original system.
SirDickButts
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for real?! wow. dreams do come true...
Saugusbrewer
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Yeah Night Shift caught on to the community and grew pretty fast.
SirDickButts
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thats awesome. so...building relationships w/ the local community and making good beer can work for some...
hornydevil
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I think the thing holding back a LOT of the smaller, community brewers is their capacity. They're popular within their community, make good/great beer, and make a decent profit margin selling beer out of their door, but would do SO much better if they brewed on a 15 bbl system, instead of a 7 bbl one, and had twice as many fermenters. Same time investment and twice the expense in raw materials, but more than twice the profit margin.
tennispl
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Hot take.
hornydevil
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Ehh . . . just what I've been told by local brewers/brewery owners. Not exactly something that requires in-depth research and it certainly isn't a newsflash to people here.
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Really? I thought local brewers and brewery owners mostly told you to 'shut up' and 'go home'?
hornydevil
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Only after they take my ideas, so there's SOME conversation worked in there.
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hornydevil
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Whether it's made of lies or not, sitting on a throne still makes me king. King of the Liars, but still king.
TripleSixHoppia
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That's because at that size you bleed money and are busting your ass for free. You have to expand fast. Most places use it as a proof of concept to help get investors.
Not regarding night shift, but I've seen a ton of places go, 1bbl to 3-5bbl, to 15-20bbl and go belly up. A 3bbl kit is cake to move through a taproom. But once you go 15bbl and have to go the distro route it get's real tough and competitive. Most people will give a taproom brewery the benefit of the doubt. That local **** does not fly in liquor stores.
Wonder if those are saisons? The beer can't be that good if they aren't controlling the fermenting temperature. Never seen that before.
reverseapachemaster1
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Maybe those are serving tanks...
ShawDeuce221
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HopStocker so it's been 2 months, you must be up and running by now. When can I visit?
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HopStocker
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give me a couple more days
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