by Kary@BeerBusinessFinance.com | Nov 26, 2019 | Operations
Brewery business plans don’t need to be long to be good. In this course, we’ll show you how to quickly build a simple and professional plan for your brewery. The course includes sample brewery business plans, templates, scorecards and bonus tools. At the...
by Kary@BeerBusinessFinance.com | Nov 20, 2019 | Financial, Operations
Do you need a business plan for your brewery? Banks require them, investors won’t talk to you without one, and business owners need them to clarify the direction for the brewery. Perhaps you’ve started building your plan, but didn’t quite finish. It...
by Kary@BeerBusinessFinance.com | Aug 7, 2019 | Financial, Financial Newsletters, Financial Resources, HR and Personnel, HR and Personnel Newsletters, HR and Personnel Resources, Operations, Operations Guides, Operations Newsletters, Operations Resources
“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?” -Woody Allen We recently went through our insurance renewal. This is a painful experience for some, but I actually enjoy the process. It’s an...
by Kary@BeerBusinessFinance.com | Jul 2, 2019 | Financial, Financial Resources, Operations, Operations Resources, Tools + Templates
Some folks celebrate the 4th with fireworks, but at Craft Brewery Financial Training we celebrate with spreadsheets. Below are 4 Cool Spreadsheet Tools for your Brewery: Sales Forecast Tool. Use this tool to quickly project sales during the month and compare to your...
by Kary@BeerBusinessFinance.com | Jan 10, 2019 | Operations, Podcasts
In today’s podcast we present Best Practices to manage your empty keg inventory. It’s 8am, do you know where your kegs are? Unless you have a good system in place to monitor them, your kegs could be anywhere. Empty kegs have a tendency to grow legs and...
by Kary@BeerBusinessFinance.com | Sep 24, 2018 | Financial, Financial Guides, Financial Newsletters, Financial Resources, Operations, Operations Guides, Operations Newsletters, Operations Resources
“Comedy is great because there’s no overhead” -Ron White The cost of making beer includes labor, materials and overhead. The first two are easy to wrap your mind around, but overhead is tricky. Direct labor is the cost you pay people to make the beer....
