Friday, November 3, 2023 NanoCon Online Schedule
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Day 1 • Friday, November 3, 2023
(All times are Eastern)
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
BREWERY CASH FLOW STRATEGIES – BUSINESS OPERATIONS & SALES
Having a healthy cash flow is vitally important to any small brewing business (and helps owners sleep better at night!) As a business there are steps you can take to improve your cash flow to meet your spending needs. And as a brewery business there are industry-specific ways you can maximize cash flow with strategies that use the unique aspects of running a brewery to your advantage. Learn these specialized techniques to boost the amount of cash you have on hand with brewery financial expert Kary Shumway.
KARY SHUMWAY
PUBLISHER, CRAFT BREWERY FINANCE
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, WORMTOWN BREWERY
QUALITY CONTROL FIXES: TROUBLESHOOTING QC TEST RESULTS – BREWERY OPERATIONS
Running quality control tests on your beer is key to improving your brewery’s products. But what do you do when a QC test comes back with results that point to a problem. Join beer QC lab scientist Amy Todd as she goes through how to fix brewing problems that can show up in quality control tests so you can learn from mistakes and avoid future issues and make better and more consistent beer batch after batch.
AMY TODD
LABORATORY SCIENTIST, ZYMOLOGY LABS BY BIA DIAGNOSTICS
TAPROOM DESIGN BEST PRACTICES – START-UPS
Designing your new brewery’s taproom is a huge step in the process of opening your business. The right or wrong design and layout can make or break your brewery business. There are special decisions to consider to maximize the customer experience in the taproom and also make your staff’s job easier serving beer. Architect Dustin Hauck specializes in craft breweries, and he’ll share best practices from his years of experience to save you from making costly mistakes when creating a taproom as inviting and profitable as possible.
DUSTIN HAUCK
PRESIDENT, HAUCK ARCHITECTURE
12:10 – 12:40 p.m.
Q&A WITH NANO VENDORS – You can check in live with your choice of top craft brewing vendors to get your questions answered about Nano-sized equipment, gear, ingredients, and supplies.
12:50 – 1:50 PM
BEST PRACTICES FOR USING THIOLIZED YEAST – BREWERY OPERATIONS
Thiol aromas can range from subtle to intense with a wide variety of tropical fruit flavors that can integrate into your beers, whether as a complement to a fragrant hop bill or a thiol-dominated aroma profile. A new wave of yeast strains can help boost your efforts to ramp up thiol aromas in your beers but you need to know how to use them as a brewing tool to maximize their impact. Learn more from Omega Yeast’s Research Scientist, Keith Lacy.
KEITH LACY
RESEARCH SCIENTIST, OMEGA YEAST
BREWERY INSURANCE 101 – START-UPS
Starting up a brewery can feel like a big risk, but that doesn’t mean you can’t take steps to manage and protect your new business from unnecessary exposure. And the brewing industry comes with a whole set of specific insurance demands you need to know about before you brew your first batch. Kayla Robinson and Jacquelyn Heitman of Pasich, LLP will walk you through the commercial brewery insurance landscape so you better understand what coverage you need to consider both in planning and in year one of operation.
KAYLA ROBINSON
PARTNER, PASICH, LLP
JACQUELYN HEITMAN
PARTNER, PASICH, LLP
UNDERSTANDING BREWERY TRADEMARKS & AVOIDING HEADACHES – BUSINESS OPERATIONS & SALES
With the 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 all read in social media the legal dust-ups that can take place with cease-and-desist letters and other impacts. Being in the brewery business, you need to know the basics about trademarks to protect your business from others copying you or you accidently copying others. The Craft Beer Attorney Candace Moon will bring you up to speed so you can better understand and work through this growing legal dynamic in the craft beer world.
CANDACE MOON
FOUNDER, THE CRAFT BEER ATTORNEY
2 – 3 PM
NANO BREWERY TRENDS PANEL
oin moderator John Holl and listen to three fellow Nano brewers discuss brewing and business trends.
JOHN HOLL
HOST, BYO NANO BREW PODCAST
3:10 – 4:15 PM
HEAT IT UP: CHOOSING BETWEEN AN ELECTRIC, STEAM, OIL OR DIRECT-FIRED BREWHOUSE – START-UPS
There are quite a few choices when you take a look at how you will supply heating for your start-up Nano Brewhouse. Learn the Pros and Cons to consider when deciding between steam, electric, direct-fire, and the latest addition –oil. Utility costs, zoning, and other factors will become part of the decision-making process for your set-up. You’ll leave with a better understanding of the pluses and minuses of each heating option after this session with Colin Kaminski of MoreBeer Pro!
COLIN KAMINSKI
R&D DESIGNER, MOREBEER PRO!
TAPROOM EVENT PLANNING PANEL – BUSINESS OPERATIONS & SALES
Find out from your fellow Nanobreweries what’s working in terms of planning and hosting special events at your taproom. From themed parties to special releases to live entertainment, Nanobreweries have gotten very creative coming up with new ways to bring old and new customers in their doors. This will be a great information sharing opportunity with your peers so everyone can learn some new ideas from each other.
ANDREW COPLON, MODERATOR
FOUNDER, SECRET HOPPER
FOUNDER, CRAFT BEER PROFESSIONALS
LOW AND NO-ALCOHOL BEER PRODUCTION FOR NANOS – BREWERY OPERATIONS
A renewed interest in NA beers as well as an overwhelming demand for more low-alcohol style choices has resulted in more and more craft breweries rolling out their own non-alcoholic beers. The most common methods for creating low- and no-alcohol beer tend to be cost-prohibitive except for the largest producers. But our own Ashton Lewis will walk you through the latest techniques and approaches you can take as a small-scale craft brewer to offer your customers your own selection of NA and low-alcohol beers.
ASHTON LEWIS
TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND TRAINING MANAGER, BREWERS SUPPLY GROUP
TECHNICAL EDITOR, BREW YOUR OWN MAGAZINE
4:20 – 4:50 PM
Q&A WITH NANO VENDORS – You can check in live with your choice of top craft brewing vendors to get your questions answered about Nano-sized equipment, gear, ingredients, and supplies.
5 – 6 PM
LEGAL CHECKUP LIST FOR BREWERIES – BUSINESS OPERATIONS & SALES
Are you unknowingly making legal mistakes that will negatively hurt your brewery? From intellectual property to navigating permits to employment law, there are plenty of ways an existing Nano can run into trouble in the course of just doing business. Craft Brewery lawyer Matthew McLaughlin will share his legal checklist any existing brewery should review and keep in mind to make sure while brewing great beer you also can steer clear of legal troubles and roadblocks that get other breweries in trouble.
MATTHEW McLAUGHLIN
FOUNDER, McLAUGHLIN, PC
CEO, FERTILE GROUND BEER CO
SMALL-SCALE GLYCOL SYSTEMS – BREWERY OPERATIONS
You don’t need to be told the importance of temperature control to make better beer. But until recently glycol systems were only scaled for larger production breweries. Now there is a new wave of small-scale glycol systems on the market perfect for Nanos. Learn the system options available as well as the proper set-up and use in your brewery from MoreBeer Pro’s David Wonder.
DAVID WONDER
Sales Director, MoreBeer Pro!
FROM BREW POT TO BREWHOUSE – SCALING UP HOMEBREW RECIPES TO NANO SCALE – START-UPS
You made great beer as a homebrewer and you’d like to use some of your favorite recipes at your upcoming Nano brewery. As most brewers know it isn’t a matter of just proportionately increasing ingredient amounts when you boost your batch size, but what is truly the most accurate way to adapt your old homebrew recipes to a larger Nano system? Steve Parkes of the American Brewers Guild and Drop In Brewing Company will give you all the details you need to scale up that recipe so you recognize that beer in the glass as the same one you used to make as a homebrewer.
STEVE PARKES
OWNER AND LEAD INSTRUCTOR, AMERICAN BREWERS GUILD
FOUNDER AND BREWMASTER, DROP IN BREWING COMPANY