Category: Expert Topic Archive
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- Sustainability 12
Expert Topic Insurance Checkup: Tips for Reevaluating your Insurance Coverage From Peter Whelan
Let’s be honest, absolutely no one enjoys dealing with insurance issues. In the best of times, insurance can seem like a pricey extravagance, a hedge against some hypothetical crisis that will likely never appear. And every year when it comes time to renew your coverage, the irritating process starts all over again.
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Expert Topic Employee Perks and Benefits with Erik C. Coleman of Beer By Coleman
A goal of brewery owners should be to focus not only on making great beer, but providing a workplace environment that values employees, fosters careers, and seeks to keep the calm and peace. That can be easier said than done in a high-pressure environment that touches on many different skillsets but there are ways to achieve a positive workplace beyond just paying a fair salary.
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Expert Topic Selling Your Brewery – Three Paths to Consider with Jason Sleeman of Craft Beverage Lending
When the time to retire arrives and the conditions are right, a brewery owner must decide what to do with the company. In some cases they can simply decide to close the doors, sell the equipment and walk away, living happily in consumers’ minds as a memory. In other instances a decision is made to sell the business.
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Expert Topic DEI: Closing the Gender Gap in Beer – an Interview with Deborah Brenner of Women of the Vine & Spirits
There are a lot of conversations that focus on closing the gender gap in the beer industry and actionable steps have been made in recent years, but more work needs to be done. It is not as simple as simply offering jobs to women. There are rooted problems in the beer industry that need to be addressed to make companies responsible employers and to set a culture that fosters inclusivity.
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Expert Topic The ABC’s of Trademark Law With Attorney Mark Traphage
With nearly 10,000 breweries operating in the United States, and countless beer brands available, trying to come up with an original beer name has never been more challenging. Knowing some basics about trademark law and how to protect your brands is no longer the province solely of larger breweries but all craft brewers.
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Expert Topic Innovation in Can Carriers Continues
Can carriers have improved in recent years towards more recyclable options, including what has become the popular overwrap carton for cans. But cans in a box don’t allow consumers to read “canned-on” dates or other info that may be on the can and not the carrier. A new innovation has just been introduced that is a fully recyclable paper can carrier that functions in the same way as the plastic carrier.
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Expert Topic BA Provides Tips on How to Save Energy (and Money) in the Brewery
Based on 5 years of benchmarking data collected, the Brewers Association has found that electricity is the greatest utility cost per barrel packaged, no matter the size of the brewery. Although the price of electricity can’t be controlled, there are many small, low cost best practices that you can control to use less electricity – and save money.
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Expert Topic How Utah Turned Leftover Low-ABV Beer into Natural Gas
After Utah’s recent “Big Dump”, when 275 cases of bottles and cans were taken from a warehouse in Salt Lake City to Wasatch Resource Recovery and all 275 cases—almost $18,000 worth of now-discontinued beer—were poured out.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the sad situation was necessary, because the beer could no longer be sold after the law change. Instead, its aluminum cans and glass bottles were emptied and recycled. The beer itself went into an aerobic digester, where it will eventually be turned into natural gas or used as fertilizer.
“If you can’t buy it and you can’t drink it, this is the best place for it,” the facility’s sustainability manager Morgan Bowerman told the Tribune.
Via FoodandWine.com
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Expert Topic BA Releases New Sustainability Benchmarking Tool
Since 2015 the Brewers Association has tracking from its members their resource use on a voluntary online data collection portal. The data collected has since been used to develop industry benchmarking reports, which allow brewers to compare their efficiency with other breweries in their region and with breweries of similar production volume around the U.S.
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Expert Topic Setting Up HR in A Brewery Is Hard. Here’s How to Make it Easier.
Posted by Tara Nurin | 1 Comment on Setting Up HR in A Brewery Is Hard. Here’s How to Make it Easier.
The following is the third in a series of four articles written by Tara Nurin exclusively for ProBrewer. Visit the ProBrewer Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion resource page for additional DEI articles and resources.
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