Start Your Own Microbrewery, Distillery, or Cidery: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success (StartUp Series)

I have found this book accurate and most useful. This is how all the handbooks should be written, straight facts, with real examples. Nice and elaborate work. The topics - micro brewing, cider production and micro distilleries are in the described with technical facts and real advices. This book is a must-have for new artisan brewers, distillers.

Good solid read. Mostly focused on craft beer and brewery case study’s, but principles apply to all craft beverage enterprises.

Great info for the newbie.... everything to start your new legacy! Enjoy!

Great reference to start with literature about building a business in brewing or distilling. Thought it leaves some loose ends its pretty good and gives you the grounds to look for complementary info plus it advices more literature on the topic for further reading. It also gives you a good idea on how the market looks right now for anyone wanting to start a business in craft related industries

Easy read, contained lots of pertinent information. Will apply knowledge gained when I start the process to open my distillery.

Great read with great pointers!

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Not nearly as comprehensive as it claims to be. There are some good case studies and there is plenty of basic knowledge that can easily be found on the internet or in any other book on starting ANY business. Too much generic (standard) Entrepreneur Mag information and not enough insider/industry-specific advice, particularly in areas of marketing, legal, etc. To their credit, SOME ibis report info was included - which isn't as easy to acquire - but not nearly enough. My ibis reports are each about 38 pages long and this book included only a few paragraphs.While the title says, "microbrewery, distillery, or cidery," the book is about 75% brewery oriented. Almost every interview, case study, reference, or resource is related to microbreweries. The info is still helpful since there is plenty of crossover but it still comes of as lazy in my opinion. With so many great distilleries and cideries out there, it's really disappointing that so few were referenced. I suspect the author doesn't really have any passion for the industry or even a sincere interest in the products they are writing about. If they did, I believe there would have been much better content. Overall, I'd say this book is about as good as watered-down well whiskey.

We bought this book as a Christmas present for my brother in law who has just set up a micro brewery at home in one half of his double garage. He was thrilled to receive the book which we noticed him reading over the Christmas period before we had a tour of his micro brewery. It should be an asset to any would be brewer's library!

Informative. The book really opens your eyes to the magnitude of opening a brewery. I still use it as a reference as I'm still working on my business plan.

This book is amazing and gives end to end perspective.

Bought as a gift, very well received

Nice book. Very informative.