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I own a brewery: Cambria Beer Co. (1 Viewer)
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Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
So I now know a brewery owner? 
Steve Tasker
Footballguy
Have you been able to pay yourself yet? (no need to answer if that's too personal)
Do you have employees? How many?
Do you have employees? How many?
General Malaise
Footballguy
It's the dream of my BIL, who is 30 and has been brewing beers for 5 years now. He's really good at it, bought a kegirator (sp?) last year and has a tap in the living room inviting me to drink out it 24/7 when I'm there for a visit. Just a terrific option for the house.So I now know a brewery owner?
Anyhow, he lives at home with his parents, has virtually no real expenses and started a portfolio of stocks I steered him into 3 years ago. Dude's done really well for himself to the point where opening a small brewery is actually an attainable goal down the line. Point I'm crawling towards is you might know TWO owners in due time, one in your back yard!
Stupid charities trying to raise money to help people. Some nerve they have.
Donations start at home, ie our town. We will absolutely pour beer at any fundraiser the Education Foundation has, 1 or 2 a year. But i really don't need to be at the Fresno Dog Park expansion charity. No matter how hard they sell how much exposure we will get, unless they want to buy our beer, no go. Didnt call them stupid charities either, that was your words, but ever since we clicked on our open sign, i get 1 to 2 requests a week. I appreciate the work they do and the effort they put into running their charity, but I am a for profit company and yet they expect stuff for free. Last I looked I had a break even cost on every pint. Why give the beer away when I can make about $700 per keg? Maybe they don't realize how small of a brewery we are and that just because we have the word brewery in our name that we are a AB Inbev sized brewery. Our business model is to start at the tap room and expand outward as demand pulls us that way and how big.
All i wanted to do was brew and sell beer. Running a business is like death by a 1000 papercuts. We have 1 employee right now who works the tap room 3 days a week. I cover the other 4 and brew on the other 3. Looking to hire someone to cover 3 shifts.
anyways thanks for the reminder on remaining humble and making sure I don't know everything. I have told my customers the one thing i absolutely know is that I don't know everything. I keep my eyes and ears open in the tap room. I have received some great advice on how to overcome some obstacles or other ways of doing things.
Donations start at home, ie our town. We will absolutely pour beer at any fundraiser the Education Foundation has, 1 or 2 a year. But i really don't need to be at the Fresno Dog Park expansion charity. No matter how hard they sell how much exposure we will get, unless they want to buy our beer, no go. Didnt call them stupid charities either, that was your words, but ever since we clicked on our open sign, i get 1 to 2 requests a week. I appreciate the work they do and the effort they put into running their charity, but I am a for profit company and yet they expect stuff for free. Last I looked I had a break even cost on every pint. Why give the beer away when I can make about $700 per keg? Maybe they don't realize how small of a brewery we are and that just because we have the word brewery in our name that we are a AB Inbev sized brewery. Our business model is to start at the tap room and expand outward as demand pulls us that way and how big.
All i wanted to do was brew and sell beer. Running a business is like death by a 1000 papercuts. We have 1 employee right now who works the tap room 3 days a week. I cover the other 4 and brew on the other 3. Looking to hire someone to cover 3 shifts.
anyways thanks for the reminder on remaining humble and making sure I don't know everything. I have told my customers the one thing i absolutely know is that I don't know everything. I keep my eyes and ears open in the tap room. I have received some great advice on how to overcome some obstacles or other ways of doing things.
about 1.5 miles. Not far at all. Cambria is a small town. Make sure to say Hi and I will hook you up with a taster flight
Thank you and if you ever come down this way, bring me some Russian River sours and I will pay you back/swap beers with ours if you want. lol
paid ourselves a little bit every now and again, but this year with our expansion of production will get us a paycheck regulary. Lot of sweat equity in the first 2 years. Self financed the whole deal so now we need some payback.
had 2 employees but 1 moved to SD, now it is just1 tap room employee and me. She works 3 days a week. I cover 4 and brew on the 3 days I am not in the taproom
Steve Tasker
Footballguy
You've talked about brewing with Brett - do you have an entire second setup for Brett beers? Or are you just sanitizing the living hell out of your system every time you use Brett?
wadegarrett
FFA Legend™
Very cool.
Come on in. Hearst Castle, the elephant seals, and a brewery! About 45 mins north of Pismo.for my Pismo trip in a few weeks
What style and what are you thinking of? Not just gonna say yes.... lol
So far for my Brett beers i have been using my homebrew carboys. so we usually do about 40 gallons of brett each time so the glass is easy to clean. If a brewer is able to clean the sachh yeast everytime then Brett is no problem either. It is when you get into introducing bacteria, Lactobacillius, pediococcus, acetobacter (which sours beers as well) those are the hardy chemical resistant bugs. Brett will just ferment the beer down and alter the flavor profile, good or bad.
When I make my barleywine, I expect to have enough sugars remaining in the mash to make a small Pale Ale. I will hop the heck out of it. Since it is the second runnings of the mash and a hoppy beer I will call it HOPPY SECONDS. My wife refuses to sell it if I do.
Franknbeans
Footballguy
I will gladly shoot you an e-mail for a pint glass or two. Much obliged.
Is this really something most men dream about? I'm seriously asking. I drink daily, usually whiskey or wine and not beer but I can honestly say I have no care to make any of those own my own, even if I knew how which I don't. Be a nice skill to have if some apocalyptic event went down and I was still standing but other than that can't say I really care.
Owning your own company and being able to create a product that people will pay is a recognizable goal I think every man has, just not so sure about the brewing beer part. But maybe it's just me.
HellToupee
Footballguy
I'll take a stab for him . I would imagine he is doing what he loves and making
from it. I'm jealous , I make a very nice living but feel like I'm in the Clash song Clampdown.
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Wingnut
Footballguy
Yes, most men do, because most men love beer.
Yep and yep on both accounts. Taking a hobby and making a viable business of it is awesome, plus it is beer. That comment was tongue in cheek. I get a lot of homebrewers who think this is every mans dream. Well change every mans into most homebrewers dreamI'll take a stab for him . I would imagine he is doing what he loves and making
otello
Footballguy
You tell me the beer you have in mind and I will think of the name.Come on in. Hearst Castle, the elephant seals, and a brewery! About 45 mins north of Pismo.
What style and what are you thinking of? Not just gonna say yes.... lol
So far for my Brett beers i have been using my homebrew carboys. so we usually do about 40 gallons of brett each time so the glass is easy to clean. If a brewer is able to clean the sachh yeast everytime then Brett is no problem either. It is when you get into introducing bacteria, Lactobacillius, pediococcus, acetobacter (which sours beers as well) those are the hardy chemical resistant bugs. Brett will just ferment the beer down and alter the flavor profile, good or bad.
moleculo
Footballguy
as a homebrewer who has that dream, any advice?
I've been brewing for about 5 years, 1 year all-grain. I'm about to upgrade to a HERMS electric system, eventually capable of 10 gallon batches. I've been thinking that I might take a stab at going pro in 10 years or so - when the kids are out of the house and I will be able to take a few more financial risks.
I've been brewing for about 5 years, 1 year all-grain. I'm about to upgrade to a HERMS electric system, eventually capable of 10 gallon batches. I've been thinking that I might take a stab at going pro in 10 years or so - when the kids are out of the house and I will be able to take a few more financial risks.
Oskar Blues beat you to this.When I make my barleywine, I expect to have enough sugars remaining in the mash to make a small Pale Ale. I will hop the heck out of it. Since it is the second runnings of the mash and a hoppy beer I will call it HOPPY SECONDS. My wife refuses to sell it if I do.
Get solid recipes, and then go as big as you can afford. then have a plan for expansion in the first 6 months. who knows what the landscape will be in 10 years from now. But we are in the midst of our 3rd expansion. First was more seating and moving the brewhouse, second was scheduling the brewing so that when a fermenter was empty we brew back into the next day at the latest. that involved hiring a tap room employee. Third is buying a bigger fermenter and soon to be buying a 2nd 7 bbl fermenter to go with our two 3-bbl fermenters.
our problem was in the space requirements, we had enough space for 2 fermenters but nothing else. our new space, brewhouse only, we can fit in up to 4 more 7 barrel fermenters and be brewing 5 days a week.
Makes no sense to me. I love Whiskey but have no desire to make my own.
Doing something you like and making money at it, that part I understand and was not addressing.
Oskar Blues beat you to this.When I make my barleywine, I expect to have enough sugars remaining in the mash to make a small Pale Ale. I will hop the heck out of it. Since it is the second runnings of the mash and a hoppy beer I will call it HOPPY SECONDS. My wife refuses to sell it if I do.
Yes agree very much if you can make money on a hobby that's a dream and even more of a dream if that money can be your primary or sole source of income. I was seriously just asking because while I know a lot of heavy and daily beer drinkers I most have no care to brew their own. The part about making money on a hobby is an easily understood dream of just about everyone.Yep and yep on both accounts. Taking a hobby and making a viable business of it is awesome, plus it is beer. That comment was tongue in cheek. I get a lot of homebrewers who think this is every mans dream. Well change every mans into most homebrewers dreamI'll take a stab for him . I would imagine he is doing what he loves and making
Anyway, congrats on living your dream, seriously.
Hint: Inhiding doesn't literally think dudes sit around jerking off to the idea of opening a brewery.
We can jerk if we want to. We can leave your friends behind. Cause your friends don't jerk, and if they don't jerk, well they're no friends of mine.
No previous brewing education other than homebrewing. Seriously. I won some awards as a homebrewer so I knew my methods and process was good to go. Yes there was a huge learning curve but the other breweries in the area have been awesome in helping out.
Before this I was selling automotive chemicals.
and it took big balls to keep writing checks but it was something the wife and I felt confident in doing and wanted to do
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
me toI would be interested in ordering some to help out a fellow FBG with his business. Well...and because I love beer too. I went to your website but did not see any way to do so.
Also, is there a discount for FBG member's?
prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
Brony
Footballguy
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
I spend a couple weeks in Cambri/Cayucos every summer. Congrats on the business. I concede. I am jealous. Not a day goes by I don't think about moving to your area. I belong somewhere between Morro Bay and San Simeon. My 14 year old is so attached to her life/friends here she gets upset when I talk about moving to the beach. 3 and a half years...
Brady Marino
Footballguy
identikit
Footballguy
Johnny Rock
Footballguy
You earned my first "Like" since FBG started it. Outstanding.
The Hank
Footballguy
Sours is definitely my favorite genre -- I'd love to check some out once you can start shipping.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
What are your best tips for homebrewers to make great beer? I've been all-grain for a couple years now. At its best, my beer is good, but no where near the great craft options which are readily available these days.
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