You Started a Brewery to Brew Great Beer. Somewhere Along the Way, You Became the Business Too.
A brewery business advisor exists for exactly this: owners who are still the brewmaster, the taproom manager, and the one begging distributors for shelf space, all at once. We help you build a brewery that's profitable and valuable, one that doesn't need you behind the kettle to work.
- Real margins on every batch and channel, not just a packed taproom
- A team and systems that keep quality consistent without you brewing every batch
- A brewery built to be worth more, whether you sell it, scale it, or hand it down
What Does a Brewery Business Advisor Do?
A brewery business advisor helps craft brewery owners build companies that are more profitable and more valuable, without the owner having to brew every batch and manage every distributor relationship personally.
We have worked with Sharon for a few months now and truly look forward to our meetings and how they help us focus on the growth of our business instead of living in the daily grind.— Devin M.
The Brewery Owner's Reality
Here's what a brewery business advisor hears from owners every week:
Canning day and festival season swallow your calendar, and everything else just waits.
You're still the one tasting and approving every batch before it leaves the brewhouse.
TTB paperwork and excise tax filings pile up, one missed deadline from becoming a real problem.
Lose one distributor placement and a chunk of your volume disappears overnight.
Taproom staff turn over every season, and training new bartenders never really stops.
Grain, hops, and can costs keep climbing, but your price on tap hasn't moved in two years.
Keep putting it off, and the choice gets made for you: a brewery that can't survive a bad season, a sale at a fraction of what it's worth, or both.
A Brewery Business Coach Who Knows the Numbers
As your brewery business advisor, we help you get a real handle on cost per barrel, keg-to-can mix, distributor margin, and taproom sales per labor hour, the numbers that tell you whether growth is actually building value or just moving more beer at a loss. The Brewers Association publishes ongoing research and benchmarking data for the craft brewing industry, a useful reference as you scale.
What Brewery Advisory Clients Achieve
How a Brewery Business Advisor Gets You There
Immersion
We start by getting inside your brewery: benchmarking your cost per barrel, taproom sales per labor hour, and distributor margin against where a brewery your size should be, then running a Value Builder future-pacing exercise around what growth or a sale actually looks like for you specifically.
Strategic Planning
From there we build a 1-year roadmap around your production schedule, taproom team, and distributor mix: a KPI dashboard, action planners, and goal tracking, with a 90-day sprint plan built around your next seasonal release or festival season.
Execution
Then we execute together through regular meetings and workshops with a dedicated advisor. Hard calls you've been avoiding, like renegotiating distributor terms or finally handing brew days off to your head brewer, get made together instead of sitting on your to-do list.
Ready to See What Your Brewery Is Actually Worth?
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Built for the Job You Didn't Sign Up For
Most brewery owners got into this business because they loved making great beer, not because they wanted to run payroll, distributor contracts, and compliance filings. But without systems, that's exactly what the job becomes.
We help you build the structure so the brewery can grow, or eventually sell, without it costing you the parts of your life outside the brewhouse. It's exactly the gap a brewery business advisor is built to close.
Meet Our Brewery Specialist
Mike brings over 25 years of experience in product and brand development, including hands-on work in the beverage industry, plus more than 15 years leading complex R&D and operations projects across energy, water systems, and resource management. His background in engineering and commercialization gives him a practical read on the production, quality, and resource challenges specific to running a brewery, from water systems to scaling operations without losing what makes the beer good.
Learn More About Mike →Build a Brewery That Works for You
Schedule a free assessment →Brewery Business Coach FAQs
Do you understand brewery economics specifically, or is this generic business coaching?
As a brewery business advisor, we work on the numbers that actually matter in craft brewing: cost per barrel, keg-to-can mix, distributor margin, and taproom sales per labor hour. It's not generic advice.
I'm slammed just keeping the brewhouse and taproom running. How much time does this take?
The work fits around your schedule, not the other way around. Most owners spend a few focused hours a month, not a second job on top of the first one.
Is this about selling my brewery?
Not necessarily. Some owners work with us for years before ever considering a sale, and some never sell at all. This is about building a brewery that's more profitable and less dependent on you, whether or not you ever exit.
We're already growing. Why do we need a brewery business coach?
Growing volume doesn't automatically mean growing profit or value. We help make sure your growth in production and taproom traffic turns into real Operating Profit and enterprise value, not just more beer out the door and more hours for you. Learn more on our Value Growth Advisory page.