Brewery Operations Manual

by Tom Hennessy

Learn how to open & run a successful brewery. This Brewery Operations Manual is a complete "to do" list that will guide you through the maze of events necessary to open your own brewery without spending the family fortune. This is real nuts and bolts stuff.
Within the three steps you'll learn how to:
*Save money so less is needed
*Pick the type of locations that will save you time and money
*Piece together a brewery for a fraction of the cost of a turn-key system
*Follow an easy bookkeeping system to track your business in real time
*Utilize a kick-ass business system to run your brewery

Tom Hennessy is the owner of Colorado Boy Pub & Brewery. It is his sixth brewery over the past 18 years. He is the creator of Frankenbrew, a cult classic 1995 video on how to build inexpensive breweries. This book is the result of years teaching many students how to open their own breweries.

Genres: Beer, Nonfiction

232 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 2012

Reviews

[Kyle Heon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dated

Some of this was good but there were many links that no longer work. Definitely on the cheap side for brewing and does not talk about how to plan for growth or expansion as you do well. Didn't think that the chapter on building your brew equipment was really relevant but maybe others would find it interesting. Some common sense stuff. Clearly he's been around for a while doing these things so his process works.

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good and informative. Full of typos and grammar errors though. I needs some serious proofreading and editing before the next edition.

[Cory Mathews · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full of great information for starting a brewery.

[Meg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice peek into the business owner's thought process for starting up a brewpub. Not a comprehensive source of information, but a nice supplement to further reading on the topic.