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Hosted by Kelly KfM Meyer · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 81 episodes
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People of Earth, I would like to welcome you to the How NOT To Start a Damn Brewery: the podcast. In this podcast I consider it my duty to share the sometimes gory but always honest truth hidden in the craft beer industry. Mainly that it rarely operates like a business. Margins are trash, distributors are garbage and capital expenditures are a raging dumpster fire. But many of the people are badasses.I autopsy deceased breweries, retailers and distributors. I talk with wineries, breweries and distilleries. All in the search for ways to lure out profitability and best practices.
Kelly KfM Meyer hosts How NOT To Start A Damn Brewery: the podcast, a business show with 81 episodes published.
In the early days of Australia’s craft beer explosion there was a brewery that out cooled all the others. I remember seeing their tight branding, the confidence that exuded from their marketing and their insane growth tr
Ralph Rapa wanted to open a small craft brewery on his terms. He wanted it to reflect his life in the American railroad industry. He wanted it to be comfortable, unpretentious and fun. So he enlisted his longtime friend
Doug Martin is a guy who has just about done it all. From working in beer in Germany to opening a brewery in California to pivoting to non-alcohol products, he’s followed many of the playbooks that the craft beer talking
Sam and Sara Kazmer brought great craft beer to a market they felt was underserved - Atlanta, Georgia when they flipped on the lights at Elsewhere Brewing in 2020. They wanted to produce award-winning beer in a unique, c
Kiernan May is a cool guy. He transitioned from a corporate career to open a brewery in New York with big dreams and a bigger bag of passion. His brewery was built on Kiernan’s analytic and logical understanding of the w
You’re about to hear the story of Matt Swan and the late Tumbledown Brewery from Farmington, Maine. Opened in 2014 and closed late 2025, Matt’s experience is varied and truly interesting. His is the first brewery we’ve t
Tanglefoot made some solid lagers in an unlikely place. Temple, TX is a town of about 90K people about an hour to Austin. A huge segment of that population has Czech blood in their veins and a thirst for beer from the Ol
Pono Brewing of Portland Oregon was conceived as a lifestyle as much if not more than a beer brand. The beers were lively, fun, inventive and everything a craft brewery should be. Larry Clouser and his partners grew from
Blue Cat Brewpub was an Illinois icon. One of the state’s first brewpubs, they made award-winning beer for 23 years. After the owners sold and the brewery was rebranded unsuccessfully, the new owners were looking for a w
And now for something a little different. I came across an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, thanks to my sister-in-law, that cited the struggles of the California wine industry. I found the similarities to the str
In the span of a decade, Michigan saw a major craft beer boom, going from around 100 craft breweries to upwards of 400. In the middle of that marketplace Kevin DeGrood opened Michigan’s North Center Brewing way back in 2
The focus of this show has always been to tell the stories of beer operations that one day turned off the lights for the last time. I’ve chosen to be very selective when considering interviewing breweries that are still
A few seasons back I realized that to truly tell the story of the business of craft beer, we needed input from other countries. So I reached out to Canadian, Australian, Norwegian, UK and South African breweries. Some of
Scott Hedeen was the quintessential beer fan. Back in the days when it was still cool to run all over Hell’s left testicle and cellar beers that don’t distribute to your state so you can trade them with other nerds of si
Rachel Rappa didn’t make beer. She imagined into life what grew into a large-scale kombucha brewery on Long Island in New York. But the similarities between what she experienced growing her fermented sweet tea business t
When Dennis Espinosa partnered with his mom to open Main and 6 in Jacksonville Florida he had the highest of hopes. In 2017, like pretty much everyone in craft beer, he only saw victory ahead. Most people would agree tha
In 2023, the Australian Beer market was shocked by the announcement that a beloved brewery that had been awarded close to 40 medals for their beer was shutting down. After 9 years blazing the path of Australia’s craft be
When Jason and Heather decided to open their brewery in Indiana they, like most of us, decided to do it their way. They looked at what existed and targeted providing their community with something new. Jason made beer st
When Doug Appeldoorn got the inspiration to open his brewery, he wasn’t just any old home brewer. He and co-founder Pietro first started a brewing collective that hosted events to champion creativity, inclusivity and the
That may have been the moment that solidified the future of Oregon’s Flat Tail Brewery. But the story of success, failure, embezzlement, money laundering and rebirth on the timeline of Dave Marliave’s craft beer career h
Doug Martin
former ECU OC / Kent St & NMSU HC · Martin's Body Shop
1 appearance on this show
Charlie Cole
interim Chief Digital Officer at Thuma · Highpoint Performance Horses
1 appearance on this show
Megan Bell
Coordinator of Civic and Community Engagement and Leadership Development · Margins Winery
1 appearance on this show
Jonathan Harris
Leader of the Liberal Democrats at West Northamptonshire Council · AIDS Foundation Chicago
1 appearance on this show
Chris Black
coach, exercise scientist, reigning under-90s Queensland IFBB and NABBA Queensland champion, and new father · Tunnel to Towers Foundation
1 appearance on this show
Dan Norris
Black Hops Brewery
1 appearance on this show
Sam Kazmer
Elsewhere Brewing
1 appearance on this show
Matthew Swan
Tumbledown Brewery
1 appearance on this show
Andy Martinec
Tanglefoot Brewing
1 appearance on this show
Larry Clouser
Pono Brewing
1 appearance on this show
Kevin DeGrood
North Center Brewing
1 appearance on this show
Rachel Rappa
Coastal Craft Kombucha
1 appearance on this show
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