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MuddyCreek
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Ok. I think we need to do something different here folks. We will have been "officially open" 3 months now in a couple days.
While that doesn't make us "grizzled veterans" by any means, I think we can say that the stage 1 thread is complete.
Time to move on to the next stage of a young brewery's life. As it turns out, opening is just the start of things. Now we have to move into the next stages of our young live which involve the tricky waters of product consistency AND improvement. (Wrap your head around THAT problem!)
We've already been very pleasantly surprised by decent beer. I know that sounds weird given that we've opened a commercial brewery, but don't underestimate how hard it is to scale up your really GOOD small batches of home-brew to 300+ gallon batches and then transfer them from 3 or 4 different vessels until you're serving them through carbonated systems to customers on the other side of a wall. It's all very tricky and to manage all that and have a consistently decent product across several different beers - well if you're doing alright - you're doing alright.
The next stage is to take it to the next level and get better.
To that end I'm going to start a new thread. I'll still monitor this one. I'm happy to answer any "startup" questions I can. I know I still owe people some stuff. In fact I have my data key and can send a specific file I've been asked for forever today.
But now we'll start a new thread about what we're going to try to do to take our brewery into the next stage. Maintaining our fledgeling customer base, (loyal and extremely dedicated,) while we attempt to expand both our offerings and our reach into the local community and beyond. We're going to talk about what we're doing about marketing. How we've interacted with other brewers in the area and the state and how we're attempting to improve our brewing processes.
So, without further ado...
Catch you on the flipside...
While that doesn't make us "grizzled veterans" by any means, I think we can say that the stage 1 thread is complete.
Time to move on to the next stage of a young brewery's life. As it turns out, opening is just the start of things. Now we have to move into the next stages of our young live which involve the tricky waters of product consistency AND improvement. (Wrap your head around THAT problem!)
We've already been very pleasantly surprised by decent beer. I know that sounds weird given that we've opened a commercial brewery, but don't underestimate how hard it is to scale up your really GOOD small batches of home-brew to 300+ gallon batches and then transfer them from 3 or 4 different vessels until you're serving them through carbonated systems to customers on the other side of a wall. It's all very tricky and to manage all that and have a consistently decent product across several different beers - well if you're doing alright - you're doing alright.
The next stage is to take it to the next level and get better.
To that end I'm going to start a new thread. I'll still monitor this one. I'm happy to answer any "startup" questions I can. I know I still owe people some stuff. In fact I have my data key and can send a specific file I've been asked for forever today.
But now we'll start a new thread about what we're going to try to do to take our brewery into the next stage. Maintaining our fledgeling customer base, (loyal and extremely dedicated,) while we attempt to expand both our offerings and our reach into the local community and beyond. We're going to talk about what we're doing about marketing. How we've interacted with other brewers in the area and the state and how we're attempting to improve our brewing processes.
So, without further ado...
Catch you on the flipside...
