Brewery

3 Tips For Starting A Successful Brewery (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own brewery? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a brewery:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a brewery?
-> Pros and cons of a brewery

Need inspiration?

-> Other brewery success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a brewery
-> Brewery slogans
-> Brewery names

Other resources

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a brewery:

#1: Diego Benitez, founder of Progress Brewing:

We chatted with with Diego, founder of Progress Brewing ($120K/month). In our interview, Diego says:

One option was to get a regular job, or… we could start a brewery.

Additionally:

I believe products are not isolated things that people pay for, I believe customers pay for the value you create while satisfying a need or (hopefully) easing a pain.

Further:

Don’t launch a prototype, thinking it is an MVP - there is a huge divide between a prototype and a product. Most consumers will only give you a few chances to test your product, so make sure it looks more like a product than a prototype.