If you’re a craft brewer who is not obsessing about the caliber of your beer, Chad Yakobson has a suggestion for you. “If quality is not at the forefront of your product,” Yakobson says, “you might be in the wrong industry.” Yakobson, the founder of Denver, Colorado’s revered Crooked Stave [...]
On May 1, 2018, Brewery Finance will crash one of Nashville Tennessee’s coolest weekly music traditions: Honkytonk Tuesdays at American Legion Post 82. Each Tuesday night Post 82 hosts Music City’s best out-of-the-mainstream and authentic country music acts. The May 1 Honkytonk Tuesday starts at 8:30 PM and features Tim [...]
Brewery Finance -- the nation’s first craft beer-focused equipment lender -- is launching a quality improvement program to help America’s brewers quickly and affordably obtain vital testing and quality control equipment. For just $99/month for the first six months, craft brewers can fund up to $50,000 in laboratory and quality [...]
Company Week is a very cool Colorado-based publication that covers companies in the Rocky Mountain West. It has a sister publication -- Brewery Week -- that does the same for breweries and beer-related companies in the region. CW/BW editor-in-chief, Eric Peterson, has just done a great piece that profiles Brewery [...]
I'm lending a hand to Rick Wehner and his company, Brewery Finance. Launched in 2005, it's the first financing company in the USA to focus on the craft beer industry. I met Rick in the early days of his enterprise when it provided much-needed help to Oskar Blues Brewery. Since [...]