Workshops

Malt is often overshadowed by other brewing ingredients, but it is truly the backbone of beer. Learn how to better use malt in your brewing and how to best brew malt-forward beers

Learn the basics for good yeast management including yeast selection, harvesting/repitching, counts/contamination checks,  and yeast scheduling with Omega Yeast’s Dr. Laura Burns. Laura will also take a deep dive into the world

Water is a critical brewing ingredient and yet is one of the least understood. John Palmer, who wrote the definitive book on the subject, Water: A Comprehensive Guide for Brewers, will take

Put more home into your homebrew by growing your own hops. Learn the keys to successfully growing hops in your backyard or even containers from hop expert Eric Sannerud. Eric will walk

Take your homebrewing up to another level by understanding why and how to use advanced lab skills suitable for your homebrewery. Professional brewery lab owner Amy Todd will walk you through how

There’s nothing quite like enjoying a draft beer at home, but you need to know how to properly set up and maintain your home system for the perfect pour. Bill Jablonski designs

Learn European as well as newer American methods to produce sour and funky beers from Michael Tonsmeire, who literally wrote the book on the subject with American Sour Beers.  Michael will demonstrate

Join Dr. Chris White and Kara Taylor of White Labs on how to master different yeast-related techniques. This four-hour workshop covers culture selection and explore preparing yeast for pitching, what to expect

Designed for intermediate to beginner homebrewers getting into all-grain brewing, this four-hour workshop covers all you need to know to successfully make great homebrews using both traditional and newer all-grain brewing techniques.

Learn the best ways to jump into creating your own signature beer recipes and understand the keys to developing a specific grain bill, hop schedule, and ingredient proportions to meet your homebrewing

Follow BYO’s Technical Editor Ashton Lewis as he shows you how to use pH meters, yeast slants and loops, and other basic lab gear to run different brewing tests that will help

How to Distill book author Aaron Hyde will walk you through the small-scale distilling process over four hours. You’ll watch a live spirit distillation with cuts for whiskey, and Aaron will also

The hazy category continues to evolve and grow as craft brewers from all sized breweries put their own spin on the craze for haze. Grant Lawrence and Tyler Schoales talk with different

Often a start-up brewery makes the mistake of not paying enough attention to the financial side of the business. You have to understand the key metrics for sales, margins, and operating expenses

Let’s discuss thiols! Thiols have been the recent hot topic when discussing biotransformation in beer. These compounds are commonly associated with terms like tropical, guava, and passion fruit aromas, but what are

It can’t be overstated how important a well-designed and maintained draft system is to any small brewery’s taproom especially when it is your main distribution channel. Learn how to strategically think about

The heart of a taproom is its draught system delivering the beer you’ve carefully brewed to customers’ pint glasses. But multi-tap systems need to be taken care of properly to save you

You’ve got your great idea and even a business plan, but how are you going to pay for the equipment, location, and materials to get your brewery up and running. Brewery financial

Kegs, Cans, Growlers, Crowlers, Bottles – there are plenty of packaging options for you to consider as a brewery business. Each packaging option comes with its own lists of pros and cons.

One important quality control tool a craft brewery of any size can put into place is an in-house sensory panel. Learn why your brewery should have one, how to properly structure it,

Understand how to produce sour and funky beers for your small brewery from a fellow craft brewer and author of the book American Sour Beers, Michael Tonsmeire. You’ll cover wort production, growing

One of the biggest blind spots and areas of concern for new breweries starting up is getting a grasp on all the legal paperwork required for both a small business and especially

Understanding contract brewing and alternating proprietorship business models in craft brewing.

Your taproom staff is the frontline of interacting with your end customers. They can easily help or hurt beer sales based on how well they interact with visitors. And ultimately they are

Learn what regular maintenance you need be doing – and how often – to take care of your valuable craft brewery equipment.

Just because you don’t have a big space for your craft brewery doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice not having the tools you need. You just need to get creative with your

One area of change for homebrewers launching a commercial brewery is working for the first time directly with companies that sell their brewing ingredients and supplies instead of just purchasing the same

Undertaking any entrepreneurial endeavor can be a daunting task. It can get very complicated when doing so in a highly regulated environment, such as the one that governs the manufacture, distribution, and

Branding is essentially telling a story about your brewery. But with a start-up brewery you have an empty page of paper. Where do you start? How do you prioritize what you need

With the sheer number of breweries now in business and all those beers being brewed the chances are greater than ever your naming ideas are going to overlap with another brewery. We’ve

The demand for hard seltzer continues and you are losing potential sales to customers if you don’t have a clear, bubbly offering on your menu board. But making good hard seltzer at

Learn how to get free PR about your brewery in local media outlets from a veteran beer journalist.

There are plenty of templates out there for creating a business plan. But the brewing business has its own specific needs and specialized considerations to keep in mind when you want to