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Second Shift, Same Standards: Build a Night Crew That Delivers

Building a second shift in a production brewery is less about squeezing more hours out of the clock and more about constructing a parallel culture that can operate with the same confidence, clarity and cohesion [...]
Current Issue

Rethink Your Branding to Stay Visible During Shelf Wars

Branding, when it comes to having your beers on retail shelves, has become as strategic as recipe formulation. Yet several breweries shared with Brewer the conversation isn’t about choosing between marketing and beer quality, instead [...]
Cider Business

These Changes Could Work for Your Cidery’s Taproom

Operational shifts inside your cidery’s taproom often come from necessity. Whether that’s changing consumer expectations, adapting to fix a bottleneck, or even unexpected setbacks. For a few speakers at CiderCon 2026, those changes have led [...]
Cover Story

The Metrics That Matter: Wes Keegan’s Discipline for TailGate Brewery

Even after more than a decade of expansion and a workforce that now spans multiple locations, TailGate Brewery remains tightly steered by a single set of hands. Under the sole ownership of Wes Keegan, the [...]
Top Stories

Why Friability Matters More Than You Think

A truckload of malt arriving at a brewery rarely sparks concern beyond checking the invoice and the malt COA, but friability is one quality metric that can quietly influence brewhouse efficiency, lautering performance and ultimately [...]

Last Pint

Why Mount Holly Beer’s Dan Tilly Built the Business He Wanted Then Let the Market Catch Up

For many brewery founders, customer profiles, growth targets, and capital strategies are defined long before the first pint is poured. Dan Tilly took the opposite approach. “I built the brand for myself,” said Tilly, founder [...]
Current Issue

Second Shift, Same Standards: Build a Night Crew That Delivers

Building a second shift in a production brewery is less about squeezing more hours out of the clock and more about constructing a parallel culture that can operate with the same confidence, clarity and cohesion [...]
Current Issue

Rethink Your Branding to Stay Visible During Shelf Wars

Branding, when it comes to having your beers on retail shelves, has become as strategic as recipe formulation. Yet several breweries shared with Brewer the conversation isn’t about choosing between marketing and beer quality, instead [...]
Cover Story

The Metrics That Matter: Wes Keegan’s Discipline for TailGate Brewery

Even after more than a decade of expansion and a workforce that now spans multiple locations, TailGate Brewery remains tightly steered by a single set of hands. Under the sole ownership of Wes Keegan, the [...]
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When Software Can Help your Brewery & When It Can Hurt

For many breweries, software still gets framed as a necessary evil: expensive, time-consuming and easy to postpone until something breaks. But as complexity creeps into even the smallest brewery operations, digital tools have quietly become [...]