Brewery Essays

Mini-Case Study 1: Rawhide Brewery Tanja Leonard Dr. Natalie Walker GBA 398 Integrated Perspectives on Business Saint Leo University 18 March 2018 Abstract This case study dives into the two proposals and the counterproposal between Rawhide Brewery and Tabby. The proposals are both with their flaws. Proposal one claims that Rawhide is making the same things as Tabby, but they may have different processes. In proposal two, Rawhide believes that they should have more control in the decision-making

Competitor Analysis Wolfe Island Spring Brewery recognizes their competition, but also understand the importance of community. With several local craft breweries located in Kingston, there is a substantial amount of competition. However, Wolfe Island Spring Brewery is unique in their current placement in the Beer Store. The main competition Wolfe Island faces is popular craft beers offered in the Beer Store. Mackinnon Brothers Mackinnon Brothers was established in 2014 and has seen great success

Tax Considerations for Breweries Colorado is home to over 200 craft breweries, and is growing every day. With more than 10% of the nation’s craft breweries being found in Colorado, the state is becoming notoriously known for the impact it is having on the industry. As the industry continues to grow, more unique tax opportunities and challenges are becoming known. Whether you are crafting beers as a hobby or exquisitely perfecting your recipes to be sold in your brewery, don’t miss out on the tax

Mission Brewery Mission Brewery is a brewery that was originally started in 1913. Like many other breweries at the time it did not survive the first year of prohibition, and it quickly went out of business. In 2007 a passionate home brewer decided to re-establish the brand. The company’s manufacturing and tasting room is now in Downtown San Diego in the historic Wonder Bread Building. Their location is unique because the brew house is set overlooking the tasting room and whenever guests take tours

Overview of Wellington Brewery Wellington brewery is a microbrewery that is located in Guelph Canada and they are famous for their beers which are reputed to be made from origin products and the brewery prides itself for being the only brewery that manufactures real English style ales in the whole of North America (Saji et al., n.d.) Key Facts and Issues of the Case Businesses operate with the view to maximizing profits, gaining larger market share, and ultimately outperforming their competition

Live Oak Brewery is one of the many new breweries that have seemed to spring up around Austin, Texas. What Live Oak lacks in size, they make up for it in the quality of their service and beer. Many business cannot thrive on simply their product alone, but also because of the management of the company. Therefore, managers are somewhat one of the key elements for a business to either be successful, or a failure. One way the businesses can increase their management is by having a hierarchy surrounding

Mad Hops Brewery is a proposed microbrewery based in New Orleans, LA. It will focus on selling to local bars in the area and will strictly trade in the wholesale market. It is considered a microbrewery because it will sell less than 15000 barrels per year, and over 75% of sales will be off-site.  Mad Hops Brewery will initially sell two products: Mad Hops Lager and Mad Hops Light. While most beers are hot-brewed, our Lager is unique because of its cold-brew process. The cold-brew method possesses

First on the list of cons on opening a third brewery would be the cost of constructing a custom-built factory that includes the same environmentally friendly additions as the existing plants such as the wastewater treatment facility (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). Secondly, it will not be simple to find a location which will allow the company to maintain the same environmental conservation work. New Belgium encourages their employees to bike to work (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). Biking is part of the

at any given time. The brewery provides the following sizes: full keg, pony keg, half gallon growler, and a bottle, to supply not only regular customers, but a handful of local restaurants and bars. On the retail side, the brewery offers logoed items that include T-shirts, pint glasses, and knit caps. The brewery is also open for sales on Friday through Sunday, so we can make the assumption that the majority, if not all, sales of retail items are sold on those three days of each week. Since the exposure

Beer Market In 2015, the recorded number of breweries have increased about 700 from 2014, reporting to 4,824 brewery facilities in U.S. The U.S. beer industry has significantly changed the past 30 years, as in the time period of 1983, where there were only 49 breweries, it reached 7,190 permitted breweries in 12/2016. Beer Production Levels: According to The Brewers Association craft beer industry group signifies that are around to 4,800 breweries in the U.S., the most that have been recorder

Demographics Microbrewery This tag is applied to any brewery that produces less than 15,000 barrels of beer per year. The beer that is produced is sold through a distributor (49/50 states) or directly to the consumer (Washington State). Good examples include the Omaha Brewing Company, which is south of Columbus, GA, or Folklore Brewing in Dothan, AL. Brewpub This tag is applied to a brewery that has a restaurant (or a restaurant that has a brewery) that sells more than 25% of the beer it brews in

transformations over the years. With them experiencing the prohibition of alcohol, the brewery had many challenges to face. The manager of Terre Haute Brewing Company said that their rich history is their biggest advantage. The microbrewery has old history that a company cannot just acquire. They have had links with gambling and mafia ties due to the prohibition and have built their reputation. In 1992, the brewery had closed its doors to the public and only crafted and distributed the beer to restaurants

In HSTC 3415: Brewing Civilization, I have decided to do the Brewery Interview Project. This option will give me insight as to how craft breweries stand out in 2018 and the evolution of the craft beer market. Specifically, I would like to explore the divide between industrialized beer and microbreweries. Current society is shifting its focus from industrialized practices and products to local businesses. Craft beer and microbreweries are local drinking establishments which promote the “I Love Local”

often times historic buildings within the city. When a new brewery opens, just like any business, it requires staff and employees to run the facility, and with the traffic brought in by the breweries comes other small businesses moving into the now profitable areas. These small businesses will often times go on to create symbiotic relationships, whether it be with local artists, food trucks, or musicians. Many of the most well known breweries in the city are located in restored historic buildings.

all of these brands were from large, well-established breweries. Jim Koch came from a long line of beer brewers and he felt this was the perfect time to introduce a new product to shake up the market. In 1984, Koch and his colleague Rhonda Kallman formed the Boston Beer Company. They named their brand “Samuel Adams”; like its namesake, Koch and Kallman expected their beer to start a revolution in the beer industry. This small, craft brewery found tremendous success from their fresh and truly unique

improvements in technology allow it to “minimize brewery operating costs and consistently produce innovative beer styles” (CBA, 2016). Within CBA’s six breweries, four use a highly automated brewing system, while the other two operate with a manual brewpub-style system (CBA, 2016). Automation allows the company to efficiently produce large amounts of beer, while the manual systems give it the ability to make specialty small batch beers. Innovation Breweries, one of CBA’s most technologically advanced

Chicago craft breweries are reacting to the announced merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller, and some caution the likelihood of the newly merged company holding a monopoly over the beer industry. “A lot of the places throughout the city restaurants and bar-wise, it’s hard to find a place anymore that doesn’t have a good local selection of breweries on tap, which in my opinion is a great thing. So I think the merger thing kind of maybe gets some people nervous,” said Adam Cieslak, brewer and

prosperous centre of Midland, Michigan. Their products range from balanced Copper Ales’ to full-bodied Stouts, targeted primarily at white collar and working class alike. The Midland Brewing Company’s physical location acts as both a full production brewery as well as a refined bar and restaurant via the independently ran Shier’s Artisan Foods in which they share the venue. The company appears to have a solid foundation which will aid in growth, however, the microbrewery fad has large barriers of entry

corporations in the beer industry. According to the documentary, the large corporations in the beer industry include Coors brewing company, the Millers breweries, and Anheuser-Busch. The small corporations in the beer industry according to the documentary include firms like Moonshot, Stone brewing company, Craft beer, Yuengling and Dogfish head brewery company. The documentary also provides a full coverage of how various advertisement campaigns in the beer industry are carried out and how lobbying

ingredients are mainly obtained through the process of fermentation. Craft beer brewers use these traditional ingredients in their beer. It is vital to note that FMBs or Flavored Malt Beverages aren’t considered as beers. The production is done in breweries