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As we head into 2024, the brewing {industry} is dealing with severe headwinds which have restricted development for a lot of breweries and accelerated the closure of others. Shopper patterns are altering, product preferences proceed to evolve, ingesting events shift as our rhythms of labor and life discover totally different beats, and the playbook on which many companies relied on now not produces the identical outcomes. Nevertheless, necessity has all the time been the mom of invention for craft brewers, and at the moment’s challenges really feel a bit acquainted to those that skilled an identical contraction within the late ’90s or huge value will increase because of the hop scarcity of the late ’00s.
To discover how brewers are dealing with these challenges head-on at the moment—and dealing to “future-proof” their breweries—we tapped three {industry} execs to share their viewpoints—Patrick Tickle, CEO of Embody, Cole Hackbarth, VP of brewing operations for Cincinnati’s Rhinegeist, and Dave Thibodeau, president and cofounder of Ska Brewing in Durango, Colorado. Via the dialog, they focus on:
- main challenges for breweries at the moment, similar to growing COGS, decrease consumer-pricing thresholds, and the diminishing returns from innovation
- strategizing round at the moment’s generational shift in drinkers
- creating natural and genuine innovation throughout the beer house
- variations between craft beer and flavored malt beverage (FMB) customers
- focusing innovation round model strengths quite than untested classes
- supporting innovation whereas sustaining profitability by means of blended margins
- the growing affect of money stream on enterprise determination making
- altering hospitality habits developed by prospects throughout the pandemic
- managing labor prices by means of cross-training and energetic owner-operators
And extra.
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