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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
Dan ConleyCommunity Beer Works
[email protected]://www.communitybeerworks.com
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
A bit of perspective
If we're an ant...5 mm
A bit of perspective
Flying Bison is a baseball...7.5 cm
A bit of perspective
Sam Adams is a killer whale...6.5 m
A bit of perspective
...and Budweiser is a moon of Jupiter3.9 km
Lies and damn liesBrewery bbl/year Ratio Size
CBW 432 1 5 mm
Flying Bison 6,500 15.05 7.5 cm
Boston Beer Co. 565,000 1,307.87 6.5 m
Anheuser Busch
339,945,117 786,910 3.9 km
1 bbl = 31 US gallons
Now then: the process
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!
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
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
90 days for the Brewer's Notice
90 days for the Brewer's Notice
We filed January 18, 141 days ago.
We've never used these
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
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).