Growth

Grainworks Expands Their Taproom

It’s been a long project (aren’t they all?), but Grainworks has finally completed their big taproom expansion and I wanted to share a little bit about it with you so you can keep up to date on what they’ve been doing. If you’ve found yourself in the brewery anytime in the last few months – […]

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Funkwerks Launches Distribution In Ohio and Kentucky

Funkwerks is heading east with the expansion of its distribution footprint to include two new US states—Ohio and Kentucky. The new expansion will introduce Funkwerks’ niche-specialized craft beers on draft, in 6-packs, and in variety 12-packs available via Heidelberg Distributing in Ohio and Kentucky this week. Draft and 6-pack offerings of Funkwerks select year-round beers—

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Urban Artifact Expands To Bring More Funky, Tart, Weirdness To Cincinnati and Beyond!

Urban Artifact was told that their goofy idea of starting a wild and tart only brewery in Cincinnati Ohio wouldn’t work.  Palates here weren’t developed enough, the niche wasn’t big enough, and I mean – how good can you actually be to compete with the breweries around the world that have been doing this sort

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Silicon Valley Bank Predicts the US Wine Industry is at the Tail End of a 20-Year Growth Period

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) released its “State of the Wine Industry 2018” report today. The 17th annual report assesses current conditions in the wine industry and provides a unique forecast based on economic and behavioral trends. Highlights and predictions from the 2018 report show that industry sales growth is ebbing as younger consumers and retiring baby

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Big Changes Coming For Hi-Wire In 2018

Asheville, NC- Less than 5 years old, Asheville, North Carolina’s Hi-Wire Brewing plans to spend over $500,000 in a brewery expansion at their Big Top Production Facility beginning in January 2018 to meet an overall goal of increasing distribution sales by 56% in the upcoming calendar year. Co-Owner, Chris Frosaker notes, “the equipment addition which

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Braxton Can Plans… Get Ready!

Doing Things The Right Way We talk a lot about new breweries, and we talk a lot about how a brewery grows.  I’m amazed at the speed of growth that a few of our local breweries have experienced.  Whenever I sit down with a new, or even existing brewery and talk about their strategy for

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