THE TRUE CRAFT PODCAST
The True Craft Podcast facilitates the honest, insightful, behind-closed-doors conversations that craft owners and operators actually want to hear.
Join us each week to hear host Chris Farmand and a guest craft owner talk through the challenges, opportunities, and decisions facing craft practitioners every day across the country.
Our Latest Episodes
The Ability To Adapt With Beltway Brew Co
It’s now been over a year since COVID-19 shook up the world. In this episode, we’re taking a retrospective look at the pivoting and ingenuity of the brewing industry, as we believe we’ll be able to learn from this for …
Brewery Startup History Lessons With Societe Brewing And MacLeod Ale
After much anticipation… Season 2 is here! We’re super excited to finally share our new season with you, and to announce our Season 2 co-host, Jen Febre, Owner and CEO of MacLeod Ale out of Los Angeles, California. Chris starts …
Financial Foundations With Kary Shumway
Before we drop season 2 we have one more Friends of SBS segment. This one features Kary Shumway, the mastermind behind Craft Brewery Financial Training. Chris and Kary talk brewery management software, when to take the plunge and start using …
Perfecting Your Pairings with Jeremy Storton
We’ve got one more segment we’d like to share with you before we drop season 2. We’re calling it: Friends of SBS. The purpose of this segment is to showcase the expertise and knowledge of our peers and colleagues in …
Vision, Benchmarks, And Scorecards With Tom Miller
Today, we have another killer edition of Office Hours for you. We brought out the brains behind the operation, our COO Tom Miller, to talk about the processes that keep the gears turning. Chris and Tom discuss methodology for establishing …
Managing Margins With Phil Schwab
We have something special for you while we put the finishing touches on Season 2… Introducing: Office Hours, a new segment featuring Chris and the Small Batch Standard team, giving you a peek under the hood at the internal conversations …
True Craft Season 1 Recap: What Have We Learned?
One whole season down! We couldn’t be more thankful to our guests, listeners, and of course our co-host, Brandon Skall. In the final episode of the first season of The True Craft Podcast, we take a casual look at some …
Pursuing Profit with Fernson Brewing Company
If there’s one thing constantly on every brewery owner’s mind, it’s profit. Craft and community go hand-in-hand, but community can’t survive without cash. And in this episode of The True Craft Podcast, we discuss profit in the brewery. Brandon and …
Can We Can It? The Aluminum Crisis with Karben4 Brewing
We’ve watched in amazement this past year as brewery after brewery have pivoted out of draft and into cans. But this transition is far from a “set it and forget it” situation. An increase in packaged offerings has created an …
Talking Technology with Liability Brewing Company
Humans have been brewing beer for thousands of years. Needless to say, the industry has seen it’s fair share of technological improvements, which seem to jump further and further ahead each year, all in an attempt to make life in …