Craft Brewery Financial Training Podcast

Mar 07 2025 153 ep. 40 mins 57
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How to Slash Costs and Boost Profits in Your Brewery

Mar 07 2025 36 mins  
Today on the podcast we hear from Bob Higgins of P3 Cost Analysts. Bob and his team specialize in identifying and reducing over-spending in your business. We talk all things expense management, cost reduction strategies, and share ideas on how your brewery can save money. Highlights Bob's process for identifying and eliminating unnecessary expenses Biggest cost-saving opportunities

How to Build Your Brewery Financial SOP Manual

Feb 28 2025 54 mins  
This month in our brewery financial round table meeting we take a deep dive into financial standard operating procedures. Financial SOPs help you create complete, timely, and accurate financial statements so that you can make better business decisions. Highlights from our session: Use this hack: Rather than writing out a long SOP, use a screen recorder and show how the process is d

Top 12 Financial Challenges for Breweries

Feb 20 2025 32 mins  
In today's podcast we review the Top 12 Financial Challenges facing Craft Breweries. This list was assembled by our network of brewery owners and managers in the Beer Business Finance Association. In the podcast, I review each challenge and provide one thing you can do right now to help overcome the difficulty in your beer business. The Top 12 Challenges: Cost management. How to im

Brewery Lease Negotiation Best Practices

Feb 13 2025 56 mins  
On today's podcast you'll hear the audio version of our brewery lease negotiation workshop. You'll learn strategies and best practices to tackle a lease negotiation (or re-negotiation) for your brewery. Key Points Lease terms, definitions, what you need to knowHow to build 'optionality' into your brewery leaseTriple net lease watch-outsNegotiation strategies and tacticsResources Jo

Beer Industry Data with Analytics Czar Dave Williams

Feb 06 2025 53 mins  
Today on the podcast we hear from Dave Williams, the Analytics Czar from Bump Williams Consulting. Dave provides a recap of 2024 beer industry data, trends, and insights. We also cover “Dave’s Top 7”. These are the hot topics that he's been hearing about recently in the beer business. Key Points Growth in non-alcohol beer and ready-to-drink productsOn-premise resultsHealth gu

Proven Cost Management Tactics for Craft Breweries

Dec 30 2024 61 mins  
In today's podcast you'll hear the audio version of our workshop on brewery expense management and cost cutting tactics. We hold these workshops monthly for our Beer Business Finance Association members. If you'd like to join 150+ other breweries in financial success, learn more about membership packages here. Key Takeaways 2 cost analysis models to identify and reduce unnecessary

2025 Brewery Marketing Master Class

Dec 23 2024 59 mins  
Today on the podcast Chris Overlay from Get Hoptimized delivers a master class in brewery marketing. You'll learn how to build your brewery sales forecast and super charge results with a best-in-class marketing plan. Key Points Sales forecasting best practicesBrewery revenue drivers and key metrics to simplify planningTools and models to build a comprehensive marketing planTactics

2025 Brewery Budgeting Workshop: Supercharge Your Financial Plan

Dec 14 2024 61 mins  
In today's episode you'll hear the audio version of our 2025 Brewery Budgeting Workshop. We cover questions ranging from how to build your payroll plan to what key metrics to track to the best way to forecast beer margins. Key Points 3 steps to supercharge your 2025 financial planBest practices for building your financial key metrics dashboard6 questions to ask before building your

New Book: The Ultimate Roadmap To Crafting Your Legendary Brewery

Nov 29 2024 51 mins  
Today on the podcast we hear from Jake Lohse from Presidential Brewing in Portage, Michigan. Jake has written a new book which serves as a road map for folks looking to open up a new brewery: In Shifting Gears: The Ultimate Roadmap To Crafting Your Legendary Brewery Or Restaurant, I will show you step by step how to pull it all together. Leveraging experience from having built a le

5-Step Process: Brewing Financial Excellence

Nov 22 2024 49 mins  
In today's podcast I share the 5-step process that I use to assess our financial position, create our goals, and build a road map to success. This process is designed to help you create timely, accurate, and complete financial statements so that you can make data-driven decisions in your beer business. Key Topics How to create a process for predictable financial resultsHow to build