One Lucky Bastard

[kocon]

Greetings fellow homebrewers
Im giddy due to the that a new brewery opened up in my town called Our Brewing Company. I believe you will hear of them in the future. After talking to the owner, it got me thinking that if I pursue it enough I could also open a brewery. It also got me thinking that it could possibly ruin the hobby for me. Everyone tells me to pursue what you love but I've always wondered, does that still hold true in the brewing business?

- Kevin O.

 

[45_70sharps]

I'm not trying to be a dream killer or anything, but sometime you should stop in and talk to him about the cost of getting up and running.

With licensing, equipment, a building or a lease on a building plus wages paid out before you ever get product sold, I would bet it is a six figure start up cost with no guarantee of success and a pretty high rate of failure.

I'm not saying you couldn't do it, but you might want to take a look at that side of it and figure out if that is your dream or not.

 

[seabass07]

A six figure starting cost would be for a relatively small operation...it gets expensive really fast!

 

[Obliviousbrew]

It really depends where are you at and waht you want to do... here a small bar/brew pub can be get for around 40000€ (around 50k) but that will be too small very soon, if you are not greedy it can be run pretty honestly and true, of course you´ll only make enough money to live and brew but if that´s what you want to do... I don´t see any problem.