CEO, @HenHouseBrewing. Call your damn elected officials and tell them to vote for the Green New Deal. Link below.
Feb 21, 2021 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
LETS TALK MORE ABOUT DISTRIBUTION right no one is bored with this yet cool more thoughts
Yesterday we were dunking on the guy who said “distributors add no value” and I’ve said things dangerously close to that in the past, so what do distributors add?
Feb 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Why I can’t stop thinking about distribution: most distributors seem to think they only exist because of regulatory capture.
Things like this, where a distributor trade group says DTC sales are “greed”, is a clear indication that they don’t think they can compete without a legal mandate to exist. So bizarre.
Feb 18, 2021 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
One of the things I find frustrating about the beer industry is that lack of financial benchmarks. I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve asked my bank or my accountants “Is this a good number?” and they come back with “Hard to say”.
The flexibility of the brewery model, which is a good thing, makes us all beautiful and unique snowflakes. The most long term profitable brewery I know still doesn’t have a tasting room and some folks with banging taprooms can’t make ends meet and everything in between.
Jun 19, 2019 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
An opportunity to talk candidly about beer pricing! How delightful; a thread.
The first thing that determines price is scale: beer made from smaller breweries will always beer more expensive. Larger brewers have more negotiating power on ingredient cost, can spend more on equipment that enhances labor efficiency, and can survive on thinner margins.
Jul 31, 2018 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Man, this whole non-compete contract thing is about two of my major grievances with the beer industry: the obsession with recipes and people thinking they own their employees.
More important than the recipe point (which is one of my largest pet peeves), non-competes are a formalized statement of owning your employees’ time to the degree that they cannot use whatever skills or knowledge came out of that time without your consent.
Just finished reading Mark Arax’s The King of California, which is awesome and you should all read. It’s a biography of JG Boswell, the man and the company, which is the largest farmer in the country.
The company is not only massive, it’s insanely ambitious and innovative. They, along with other Central Valley farmers, get rid of the largest lake in California. They literally make it go away.
