What You Brew For Profit?

[Gustavoj]

i m just curious about if you actually made this hobbies into a business and how ?



ty in advance

 

[Bribie G]

Whilst it is illegal to sell alcohol here, in the USA and presumably in Puerto Rico as well (which I guess has similar laws to the Mainland) quite a few home brew hobbyists have gone on to found businesses and careers as Home brew shop owners, operating ingredients and equipment businesses online, setting up brew-for-you outlets or going on to become brewers at microbreweries or founding their own micros. In fact Ross here has totally scooped the pool :lol:
One guy who posts regularly has a business running brewing courses.

 

[JestersDarts]

i m just curious about if you actually made this hobbies into a business and how ?



ty in advance

Pretty simple process mate - i'll just sum it up for ya

1. Have interest in beer
2. Learn homebrewing at home
3. Start a business related to this
4. ??????
5. PROFIT

 

[fraser_john]

Pretty simple process mate - i'll just sum it up for ya

1. Have interest in beer
2. Learn homebrewing at home
3. Start a business related to this
4. ??????
5. PROFIT

Dress as a gnome and sing a little song too!

Just in case you don't get it (which I hope many do) Linky

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

I love brewing. Kinda like I used to love computers and stuff.

Then I pursued a career in computers and stuff.

Now, I am a broken man and see computers and stuff as necessary evils. Why would I do that to beer?

 

[beerdrinkingbob]

I love brewing. Kinda like I used to love computers and stuff.

Then I pursued a career in computers and stuff.

Now, I am a broken man and see computers and stuff as necessary evils. Why would I do that to beer?

Well said.

We have a professional brewer in our club and i was chatting to him last meeting about brewing of course He said unless your second choice of careers is to be a cleaner, then really need to give it some thought, lots of cleaning on a big scale :angry:

 

[JestersDarts]

70% of the work on a full scale brewday may be cleaning, and it is probably equivalent to what you do at home, so no surprises there..

 

[Paul H]

Why would you want to ruin a perfectly good hobby?

:icon_cheers:

Paul

 

[petesbrew]

Why wopuld you want to ruin a perfectly good hobby?

:icon_cheers:

Paul

+1

 

[JestersDarts]

+1

yeah true that!

 

[manticle]

I wonder if the Kooinda boys agree? Not something I'm aiming for but passionate people have done it and good on them (their beer is consistently good too).

 

[Jimbeer]

I reckon it would be incredible. I can understand all the cleaning would be a pain, but I'm sure the large scale cleaning systems would be much more efficient and easy than what we use. I base this on absolutely nothing though and am happy to be proved wrong.

I would love to do it professionally. But maybe I'm young and stupid.

 

[Swinging Beef]

I would love to do it professionally. But maybe I'm young and stupid.

Im guessing here you dont want anyone to agree with you. <_<

 

[Jimbeer]

Im guessing here you dont want anyone to agree with you. <_<

The more people I can convince that it's a bad idea, the less competition in the future

 

[WSC]

Brewing professionally is one thing.

For profit is a whole different thing!!!

 

[Duff]

I just wish someone would grow the rocks and start a brewery like Russian River here in Australia.

As soon as I win lotto I will

But if there are any millionaires reading this......

 

[Newbiebrewer]

that would be pretty awesome except for the massive amounts of money

 

[Nick JD]

SWMBO's Dad owns a brewery.

Oh, wait - no, that's a Kevin Bloody Wilson song.

SWMBO's Dad runs a meth lab.

 

[Thirsty Boy]

Well - you could just get a job at a brewery...

Not everyone is cut out to start/run a business. But that doesn't mean you cant brew for a profit/living.

You're never going to be rich and you better love what you do given the level of remuneration in small breweries... but a wage is profit too.

 

[Bribie G]

I produce drugs in my garage