“I have four or five groups come to me every month asking for advice about how to get into the business,” said Beatty. “There are a lot of hobby brewers in B.C. anxious to live their dream and own a brewery.” With a lot of sweat and ingenuity, a nano-scale brewery can be set up for as little as $250,000, though most will cost closer to $1 million with lease and labour. Retail sales of craft beer hit $174 million last year (up from $84 million just four years ago) and the dreamers and a handful of established brewing companies are betting large that figure has a lot of room to grow.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 06:52:37 +0000