2022 has been tough on craft beer. From the macroeconomic forces hitting the complete economic system—rising rents, rampant inflation in uncooked supplies and logistics prices, shortages, rising labor prices—to the industry-specific challenges like altering client curiosity in packaging codecs, shifting beer kinds, distributor focuses, altering draft beer panorama, and extra, it is turn out to be more and more tough to function brewing companies efficiently.
For Port Brewing and The Misplaced Abbey cofounder Tomme Arthur, the answer is to “develop down,” or get comfy being smaller. For therefore many breweries, planning for future progress has at all times knowledgeable each choice, from branding to brewhouse, however after 17 years of fixed reinvestment into future progress that now appears to be like like an unreachable horizon, Arthur is having second ideas.
On this episode, recorded initially for a written Q&A within the newest concern of our Brewing Business Information, Arthur shares his perspective on matters like:
- coping with brewery sq. footage that is not producing income
- challenges in shallow and huge distribution
- distributor consolidation and altering priorities
- the hidden price will increase in triple web industrial leases
- rising uncooked supplies prices
- the shift in client curiosity in bitter beer
- revamping the present brewhouse to be extra attuned to correct stock ranges
- the hidden prices of working extra taproom areas
And extra.
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