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Urban South’s Management Philosophy: Hire Experts, Then Trust Them

Urban South Brewery’s growth over the past decade has not been driven solely by new markets, new brands or production investments. According to founders Jacob Landry and Kyle Huling, one of the New Orleans company’s [...]
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What Any Brewery Can Learn From Neuromarketing

Marketing plans for your typically begin with calendars, social media schedules and release announcements. But consumers rarely decide what beer to buy by methodically comparing tasting notes, ABVs or hop varieties. By the time logic [...]
Cider Business

From Guided Tastings to Community Events, These Can Drive Local Cidery Visits

The biggest marketing lesson isn’t about finding the latest social media trend or spending more money on advertising. Instead, centering on understanding your local community first, then building promotions that fit the way customers already [...]
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Building a Brewpub Menu That Balances Local Flavor With Brand Identity

Typically, your brewpub’s food menu is expected to complement the beer. But as competition for taproom traffic continues to intensify, many are increasingly discovering that food can do much more than support beverage sales and [...]
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7 Red Flags At Your Brewery That Quietly Kill Customer Retention

Most brewery owners focus on getting people through the door. Fewer focus on what quietly prevents those customers from coming back. Often, it’s not the beer itself. Instead, it’s the small operational details that shape [...]

Last Pint

From Brewery to Beer Hall and Back: Harmony’s Strategic Pivots

In 2010, when Barry, Heather and Jackson VanDyke started gutting a former liquor store and house in Grand Rapids, Michigan’s Eastown neighborhood, Harmony Brewing looked less like a strategic business play and more like an [...]
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Pricing Beer for Survival, Not Just Profit

As costs continue to soar for ingredients, freight and packaging, many breweries are increasingly being forced to answer a difficult question: How much can a consumer realistically absorb before pricing begins pushing them away from [...]
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Data, Discipline and Paradise Park

How Kyle Huling & Jacob Landry Balance Urban South’s Craft Credibility With Mass Appeal For a brewery founded in a city more associated with cocktails, daiquiris and open-container tourism than beer, Urban South Brewery has [...]
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Smart COGS and Labor Strategies That Help Profitability Before Growth

Inflation hasn’t simply raised costs across the board, it has fundamentally changed how brewery owners and decision makers think about growth, production and long-term sustainability. Many now say the era of chasing endless expansion has [...]
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Why Data Should Replace Guesswork Going Forward

For years, a brewery’s growth could be built on instinct. Many founders or brewing managers would trust their palate, while sales teams trusted relationships, and expansion decisions often relied on feel as much as forecasting. [...]