Starting a Brewery

Hello everyone!

I'm curious as to who here has ever successfully managed to start a brewery, no matter how small or large, or at the very least, sell their homebrews and make a profit.

I'm currently a small business owner in Seattle, and the most intimidating thing to me when I first explored the idea was dealing with all of the state licenses and registrations. Now that I have all of that under my belt, I want to be able to entertain the idea of seriously starting a small local brewery. Of course, my current industry and manufacturing beer are two different beasts, and I would like to know your stories and your advice for a novice like me.

Cheers!

 

Just to clear this up, you cannot legally sell your homebrew under any circumstances - this is against federal law.

There are a few threads here about others who have gone pro, their journey, etc. I know that there is at least another forum that deals exclusively with this topic.

 

Ooh, good point, and thanks for the tip.

I'll have a dig through the forums for existing threads. If a mod wants to move this one to an appropriate forum or merge with an existing thread, that's fine too

 

Check out probrewer.com for professional discussions

that said there are plenty of interesting threads here regarding starting, or trying to start, small commercial breweries.

 

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/i-went-pro-what-actually-takes-do-so-386476/

 

go talk to Don Webb at http://nakedcitybrewing.com/

his handle on HBT is Brewtopia.

here is his build thread - http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f19/naked-city-brewing-has-location-61611/

cheers!

edit - Ah, i see that Yooper has faster fingers than i do....

 

Thanks a ton for the links and tips guys!