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The Business of Craft Beer
According to Jan Zeschky’s reckoning, there will be 22 new craft breweries opening in British Columbia this year — that is, 22 he is aware of. This will bring the total number of BC craft breweries and brewpubs to 85.
So if we assume, on average, that each brewery will produce six beers annually (four core, two seasonals), that amounts to 510 BC craft beers. That is equal in number to 84% of all beers currently sold in the 197 BC government liquor stores, only you won’t find even close to that number of local craft beers actually sold there.
This makes for an increasingly competitive landscape, putting more pressure on startups to have a solid business plan. Read the rest of this entry »
Written by BCbrews
May 20, 2014 at 10:49 am
Posted in beer, brewery, business
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