Insights from Inside the Craft Industry

We regularly publish our best insights, extracted from our direct front line experience, feedback, and observation of craft industry. This is not the place for patronizing, feel-good stories, but instead the hard truth owners and operators need to hear.

You’ll also find our most recent publications below. When you subscribe to our email list, you’ll receive both weekly insights like these as well as our quarterly email series as we publish them. If you are open-minded, ambitious, and dedicated to building something significant, we’d love to have you with us.

Tax Tip Tuesday E. 8 – Tax Reform

I’m sure you have heard that tax reform is upon us. Exactly what, when, or how is yet to be determined, but I am certain ...

Tax Tip Tuesday E.7 – Depreciation

Hey, here we are 7 weeks into our Tax Tip Tuesday series, have they been informative? Let me know. While all this info is super ...

Tax Tip Tuesday E.6 – Deductions and Credits

Happy Halloween Everyone! My kids are dressing up as 2 Minions and a Poppy (Trolls) They have me going as Gru…. As promised, this week ...

Tax Tip Tuesday E.5 – Audit Myths

Hey, If you are just joining us, each week I am releasing a Tax Tip Tuesday through December 1, 2017. This week I want ...

Tax Tip Tuesday E.4

Hey, this week’s tax tip is the conclusion to a 3 part series. If you are just joining us, I highly recommend you start with ...

Tax Tip Tuesday E.3

This weeks tax tip is a continuation from last week. If you missed it, you can read it here. So we need a better strategy, ...

Tax Tip Tuesday E.2

Most tax planning advice given to small business owners is based on spending money. “Buy new equipment before year-end.” “Prepay next year’s insurance policy.” “Buy ...

Tax Tip Tuesday

As you may know, I prefer to be writing and talking about brewery growth strategies. What you may or may not know that I have spent ...

Suds and Spent Grains

Welcome to the quarterly edition of Savory Suds and Spent Grains from Small Batch Standard. I thought this would be a fun way to highlight ...

Markup v. Margin

I recently wrote a post about Gross Profit vs Gross Margin, it was nice. Piggybacking off that topic I want to explain the differences between ...