LHBS Owner or Microbrewer

[Revvy]

Bring this idea...and Your Cash (and Credit) to Colorado. I'm In!:rockin:

Dude, I could really see a theme here...Instead of Tables, they could be little tiki huts!!!!

I could get to wear my collection of tacky Hawaiin and FLordia shirts to work EVERYDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Schlenkerla]

I think if would be fun to run a LHBS and a Microbrewery. Taste before you made. How cool...

I would have to be very wealthy so I could careless if turned a profit.

Initially I'd serve easy beer-pairing food like, chili, pizza and BBQ. I think I'd try to keep this stuff cheap to keep people in the bar after happy hour and so they aren't driving w/ too much ABV in their system.

Then start stepping up to lunch/dinner specials that would go with the seasonal beers.

 

[Revvy]

I think if would be fun to run a LHBS and a Microbrewery. Taste before you made. How cool...

I would have to be very wealthy so I could careless if turned a profit.

Initially I'd serve easy beer-pairing food like, chili, pizza and BBQ. I think I'd try to keep this stuff cheap to keep people in the bar after happy hour and so they aren't driving w/ too much ABV in their system.

Then start stepping up to lunch/dinner specials that would go with the seasonal beers.

I've been toying with the Idea of a bed and breakfast/Inn that brewed & served my own beer, made my own cheese and cured/smoked my own meat. It would have a "prix fixe" dinner menu paired with the beer....Of course my dream would be to move to Ireland and do it there....

I've also wondered about the legality here of doing it, but not charging for the beer....hence not needing a brewpub license...but I'm sure there's a million other restrictions on it....

 

[GeorgeH]

How 'bout a microbrewery that also had a shop inside of it? Sort of like hardrock cafes have a big giftshop in them....

You could even carry your own brand of yeasties....clone kits of your brews...all sorts of stuff. That way you could have the best of both worlds....

Michigan Brewing Company does this. Things Beer is in the same building, and they sell clone kits of some of their beers. The time I made it out to MBC I realized "You know, I do need..." It might be dangerous to my wallet to combine drinking and buying brewing supplies

 

[Revvy]

Michigan Brewing Company does this. Things Beer is in the same building, and they sell clone kits of some of their beers. The time I made it out to MBC I realized "You know, I do need..." It might be dangerous to my wallet to combine drinking and buying brewing supplies

Yeah I thought one of them here in MI did it...In fact I was talking to my GF about it today...Actually I thought it was Bell's that did it, not MBC....

But you're right it could be dangerous!!!

http://www.michiganbrewing.com/Home.jsp

Their kit prices are not bad either....

 

[Schlenkerla]

Michigan Brewing Company does this. Things Beer is in the same building, and they sell clone kits of some of their beers. The time I made it out to MBC I realized "You know, I do need..." It might be dangerous to my wallet to combine drinking and buying brewing supplies

Thats a No-$hitter. I'd come home with a trailer HERMS/RIMS attached to my hitch.

SWMBO - "WTF is that???", "How much did you spend??" " Its coming out of your allowance". "F-No, take it back now!!!!"




HEY 1600 POSTS!!!!!!

 

[Rhoobarb]

Although I would likely never do either, I picked Microbrewer. I like being creative and that would be my outlet. I've thought about how it would be cool to do both. One of those things you think about when you're sitting in traffic on the way home after a long day at work. But an LHBS has low margins and I don't know that I'd want those hours.

And unless I won the lottery and/or got ahold of an ungodly amount of money, allowing me to hire a bunch of people to run the business and still afford to lose my shirt, I wouldn't want to own a micro or a brewpub, either. Just let me brew, oversee the brewery and give me my paycheck every two weeks.

 

[mrkristofo]

I'd rather own a LHBS and have a good set of employees to run it, thus freeing up my days to brew as I please.

Better yet, I'd like to own both the LHBS and a Microbrewery, just in case I stumbled upon a recipe that I'd like to make 10bbl of.

 

[SuperiorBrew]

Congratulations!

Thanks ollllo they are unpacking Blichmann boilermakers and conicals as we speak. Should be ready to open in about 2 weeks.

 

[Revvy]

Opening new LHBS as we speak.

Congrats....I've noticed you had a vendor designation and always wondered why, and kept meaning to ask you!

You gonna take pics to show us when it's open?

 

[SuperiorBrew]

Congrats....I've noticed you had a vendor designation and always wondered why, and kept meaning to ask you!

You gonna take pics to show us when it's open?

Sure will, adjusting the crush on the grain mill right now, I am going to have to brew a couple batches this weekend just to use up all the 2 row we milled for testing and adjusting.

 

[tuckferrorists]

I am going to have to brew a couple batches this weekend just to use up all the 2 row we milled for testing and adjusting.

NAHHHHH, just vacumm seal them and ship 'em to me!

 

[Brewtopia]

I always told SWMBO that when I retire, I want to own a brewpub.



I guess I'm retired.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

I spotted a soon to be out of business restaurant in down town Kelowna today. Not far from the lake. It just opened, but I give it 6 months or less. For some reason people keep putting prices high end restaurants in that location and the are always empty. Out pricing the demographic me thinks.

Anyway.... It would be a great location for a brewpub. Probably have to make so bud and corona clones though. I'm seriously thinking about it. I have a friend that is a Chef and I know in a year or two he wants to start his own restaurant.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Denny - That's an idea I haven't heard. Be a brewer for a prominent resturant.

Kind of like a special Brewing Su-Chef (sp?)

Good food paired with good beer is easier than wine.

Try pairing spicy hot carna asada tacos w/ wine. (Sierra Nevada Pale Ale)

What wine goes with chocolate cheese cake? (Youngs Double Chocolate Stout)

What goes with smoked haddock? (Weissbier)

What goes with a souffle? (Stout or Porter)

How about a risotto? (Belgian Strong Ale)

Got this from Garrett Olivers Book - "The Brewmasters Table"

:rockin:

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Yeah. In this case I think it would be more brewpub like but with some high end options or seperate dining room. There a brewpub called "Tha Canoe Club" in voctoria that has the brewpub side and restaurant side. Swans in Victoria does as well.

I like the food/beer paring idea.