Back in the heyday of craft beer, everyone was hoping to get bigger. Opening a brewery was about large scale growth, ideas of grandeur and big corporate buyouts. Nowadays, those dreams are essentially gone and breweries are now deciding what is the best way forward. With all the doom and gloom now, we talk to two brewery owners about what staying small means in today’s world: one who is “growing down” his business to be more nimble in today’s world and one who is deliberately staying small, focusing more on beers he wants to brew while brewing beers for his community and taproom.
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