Best Practices

In any discipline, there are generally accepted principles and practices. In the Craft Brewing industry, at least four disciplines are foundational:

• Brewing
• Accounting
• Software
• Overall business management

How does your current system stack up? Download a checklist of key criteria to consider.

Check out the top ten reasons to use BeerRun — and download our white paper on Making the Move to Brewery Management Software. It’s loaded with useful ideas, including a ‘due diligence’ checklist that’s a terrific resource for evaluating and implementing any business management solution.

Check out these excellent articles and podcasts by Chris Farmand:

• Five business issues to consider before starting a brewery
• Three ways for finding brewery startup capital
• Managing cash flow during a brewery expansion
• Craft beer pricing pointers: How to set beer prices in a growing market
• Tax tips for brewery owners – Updated!
• What to pay your brewery employees and yourself
• Business software selection: ERP or best-of-breed?
• Four reasons why brewers should build a budget
• Cost accounting hack for craft breweries under 50,000 bbls, part 1 and part 2
• The Business of Beer, Episode 73 (podcast)

Chris Farmand, CPA, MBA is the founder of Small Batch Standard in Jacksonville FL. He has over 15 years of tax and accounting experience, and his team has dedicated its practice to the Craft Brewing industry. They are the leading financial, tax and growth consulting provider for breweries across North America.

“We have used BeerRun software for the past 4 months. There are many variables within the craft beer industry and each small brewery has some unique concerns when it comes to software as they grow. Their team has been able to incorporate our needs and help get us up and running, not only initially, but as we have already moved into updated versions of this multifaceted software in a relatively short time frame.”

— Joe Mengel
Vice President of Sales, Argus Brewery