![]() I think you have a good idea to make it more of a beer hangout kind of like we are doing. So like anything else it's definitely possible to make a go of it but I would stay clear of just running a retail shop. At the end of the day if someone wants to brew tomorrow the internet is not going to help them, they need to come to us. We now focus on fresh ingredients and service, two things that we can do better. We actually cut down our inventory quite a bit because we knew we could not compete with on-line shops. We also reached out to the local home brew club and offered to host monthly meetings at the brewery and will be hosting competitions to brew-on-premise and serve people's home brew's on tap. It doesn't hurt if they've had a few beers from the brewery while taking the class also. I think teaching classes is important to not only increase your customer base but also people are more likely to purchase supplies from you right after the class especially if you give them a discount. Our new venture is to be a brewery with tap room with an on-site home brew supply store and brew school. He basically put up his inventory as equity into the new brewery. I am opening a brewery in April and my partner who is our brewer owned our local brew shop for that past three years, he has never paid himself and barely turns a profit. Your starting with a limited market to begin with and most people will order equipment on-line for cheaper than you can offer. I have a little insight into this and must agree with most on here and yourself that it has to be more a destination place for it to work. If it's good people will buy it, and try to replicate what they tasted and feel better for the recipe knowing what it "could" taste like if they do it right. I know my store has several books of AG and extract recipes that they've created that are really good that people go after all the time to put together how they choose.īetter yet, if you can brew a beer from your recipe book that might be popular to sell, brew it and have it on tap for people to try before they buy the recipe. Maybe even have some "clone" recipes to match something you have on tap from time to time would be fun. You'll get people in for beer, maybe get them to brew. If you can sell beer, have some on taps, with a small bottle selection is nice. Allow them to brew there, meet there, do "Brew and BBQ" days where the public can come and see people brew and eat some good stuff. ![]() Knowledge and the whole" shoot the breeze" aspect is what is appealing to a local store. Monster M3 mills for you to self grind, and self help yourself to the grains. ![]() Sometimes better.īut they offer great fresh stuff, and great mills. My LHBS is just as good on grain/yeast/hops/ingredients than the online stores. Im sure you could find some way to work it all out, it just seems like there may be some logistical issues to me. Would probably need to look into local laws regarding nano or micro breweries for that though. Now, if there is a way that you can brew your own beer on premises and sell that, it may be a bit better as it would keep the focus on your homebrewshop moreso than being a bar with brewing ingredients attached. Ex: A bar will generally do better during night hours on the weekend while a homebrew store would likely do better in the morning/early afternoon. Youll need staff with all different knowledge and be open hours that may be a bit unorthodox for the other half of the store. That aside, I like your idea, just gotta check your local laws (in NJ everything seems to be over the top for on premise alcohol consumption, TX is likely different) and realize that to be profitable running multiple businesses out of the same space youll need to do a lot of research. If he was saying a direct substitute then he is off but if he was trying to get you closer to MO then he may have been on the right track. Click to expand.For what its worth Golden Promise is a lot closer to Maris Otter than North American Two-Row.
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