And after the electric bill to heat 1 or 7 or 10 bbl batches several times for a month, you would go broke
Surely the gas bill would send you broke at a similar rate
And after the electric bill to heat 1 or 7 or 10 bbl batches several times for a month, you would go broke
We were invited to the American Craft Beer Fest this past weekend and had a blast. To the half dozen or so of you guys who stopped by to say hi, thanks for stopping! The even was a ton of fun for us and it was cool to cool to catch up with some HBT'rs.
Here are two pics...
Man, where did you get that table/booth/bar? I've seen a lot of tradeshow displays, and that is one of the nicer ones.
Sorry if this has been answered but are you guys still buying supplies from your homebrew sources? Or are there other companies more geared toward buying supplies at a much bigger scale?
Cape Brewing said:We love our local homebrew places and we still use them for odds and ends but no, we have a commercial account at a wholeseller where we buy all of our grain in bulk. We then have a commercial account at a hop dealer and have even entered into forward contracts that meet our annual needs for hops.
Cape Brewing said:Yeah... They aren't that hard to find (at least by us they aren't too hard). We get our grain through BSG (Brewer's Supply Group) in Rhode Island which is a pretty easy for us and we have hop contracts with Niko.
50 lb sacks of grain run us $28-$30 and I am not sure what the hops are per pound but they are dramatically cheaper than retail prices.
Any of those places will require paperwork to be filled out to open a commercial a count including your TTB Brewer's Notice # and likely a credit check.
You gonna keep the 1.5 going to in essence triple production?
Cape Brewing said:No... we're selling those pots shortly and will re-use the burners, etc.
Cape Brewing said:We started woth just carbing in the kegs, went to a brite, blew a seal on the brite, went back to just in the kegs, and then we just got a shiney new 3bbl brite delivered so that is getting hooked up in the next couple of days.
Going with a brite is dramatically easier. <---- understatement
Cape Brewing said:No, no!! It's just vanilla ice cream!!
(Always loved that joke)
What drove the decision to go with a 3bbl system instead of going larger? ?
Are you inline injecting CO2 and O2 on transfer? If so, how is that going?
... it's payin the bills
Did you consider going to a 6-7 bbl brite tank & fermenter so you can double batch brew?
think about being open more often for bottle sales, growler fills, etc
cartons site said they were open on monday and then i stopped there on the way home from the beach and they were close. VERY DISSAPOINTED
i would think the added profit would be nice. you have to make more $/gal selling it by the pint/bottle/growler than to the bars in kegs, right?
next time im in boston i'll look for you
I'm assuming you are using your brite tank for conditioning and carbing all your beer which you then package into kegs.
That makes your brite tank your choke-point unless you keg directly from the fermenter and carb/condition there.
I'm thinking aloud more than asking questions. However if I'm completely wrong, please correct me.
Even if you increase your yeast usage, you don't find that additional conditioning time enhances the flavors of your beer? In three weeks I have no doubt the beer can be finished, it just seems it would be even better if your processes could allow even a couple weeks of conditioning time. (Although, I don't know what your rollout rate is on your beer, perhaps you have something of a surplus backlog that allows your filled kegs to sit for a bit, conditioning.)
Again, thinking out loud. When I do this at night my wife tells me to roll over.
My buddy Sage brought some of your campout mild to my Labor Day party. Nicely done
JeepDiver said:So do you think at some near point you will be turning a profit? Guessing you may already know this, but if you don't make a profit, in 3 of the next 5 years, then the IRS will consider the brewery as a hobby, so any deductions you make for equipment, etc will be disallowed.
I've seen some people run into this issue before (well they actually expected to make a profit) then get blindsided with a big tax bill when they don't make it. Not trying to be a downer, but just giving you a heads up.
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