Progress Brewing

How This Entrepreneur Started A $2M Craft Brewery

March 14th, 2019
Diego Benitez
Founder, Progress Brewing
$120K
revenue/mo
2
Founders
5
Employees
Progress Brewing
from Los Angeles, California, USA
started August 2013
$120,000
revenue/mo
2
Founders
5
Employees
market size
$651B
avg revenue (monthly)
$69.7K
starting costs
$13.7K
gross margin
40%
time to build
210 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
content-library
best tools
Facebook, Instagram, Quickbooks
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
35 Pros & Cons
tips
3 Tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

My name is Diego Benitez and I run Progress Brewing Progress brews and sells craft beer in a wide variety of styles exclusively at its tasting room in the city of South El Monte, approximately 12 miles East of Downtown Los Angeles.

We usually have close to 30 beers on tap including lagers, belgians, IPAs, stouts, sours - light and dark, low and high alcohol, something for everyone. We sell tasters (4oz for $2-$3) pints and tulips (16, 12 oz for $4-$6) to drink at the tasting room, and crowlers (32oz cans), grumblers (32 oz glass), and growlers (64 oz glass) to go.

We sell the most of our Blonde ale - a Kölsch-inspired beer - and Cavalry - a well balanced Double IPA. We opened our doors in August 2013 and we saw continuous growth of 12%~14% every month for 16 months straight.

We hope to break $2M revenue in 2019.

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