Fun & Excitement While Opening a Brewery
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Dan Conley from Community Beer Works talks about nanobrewing, the scale differences in breweries and the process involved of starting a brewery of your own.
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Fun & Excitement While Opening a Brewery
- 1. Fun & Excitement While Opening a Brewery Dan Conley Community Beer Works dan@communitybeerworks.com http://www.communitybeerworks.com
- 2. What is Community Beer Works? • Nanobrewery coming soon to a Buffalo near you • How soon? That's the point of this presentation • 15 Lafayette Ave, by Niagara St (Mmm, Santasiero's) • Seven guys: Ethan, Dave, Rudy, Greg, Dan, Chris, Matt
- 3. A bit of perspective 5 mm If we're an ant...
- 4. A bit of perspective 7.5 cm Flying Bison is a baseball...
- 5. A bit of perspective 6.5 m Sam Adams is a killer whale...
- 6. A bit of perspective 3.9 km ...and Budweiser is a moon of Jupiter
- 7. Lies and damn lies Brewery bbl/year Ratio Size CBW 432 1 5 mm Flying 6,500 15.05 7.5 cm Bison Boston 565,000 1,307.87 6.5 m Beer Co. Anheuser 339,945,1 786,910 3.9 km Busch 17 1 bbl = 31 US gallons
- 8. Now then: the process
- 9. Now then: the process • Find a location • File with the Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Taxation and Trade Bureau (TTB) • File with the New York State Liquor Authority (SLA) • Pass inspection from the NYS Department of Agriculture • Make some beer!
- 10. Location • You need a lease before you can file with the TTB • Zoning laws assume you're a giant brewery • It was tough to find a location in a community • Breweries use a lot of gas and water
- 11. TTB • All owners need to pass a background check • Be prepared to write: our application was over 65 pages • You WILL misfile something. The WILL be delays. • Once you file, no brewing on site. At all. • No more than 90 days later, get a Brewer's Notice Just one page of fun
- 12. 90 days for the Brewer's Notice
- 13. 90 days for the Brewer's Notice We filed January 18, 141 days ago.
- 14. We've never used these
- 15. The Kicker • You need a location before you file • All told, it's at least a year (TTB, SLA, etc) • This means you're paying rent and utilities while being legally prohibited from making money
- 16. What We've Learned • Have friends. You cannot do this alone. We're the League of Extraordinary Brewers. • Have lots of money and free time. You'll dump both into the brewery. • Social media! Friends have benefits. • Brewer's Notice: have detailed plans. • Nano is the way to go (n=1).