10 Key Ingredients for Craft Beer Success

2009 November 10

I’m working on a project that has me thinking back on my time in the Craft Beer segment.  I took some time this past weekend to crystalize my thoughts on what it takes to build a successful craft beer brands and here’s what I came up with.

After looking at this a few times, it seems like a lot of these concepts apply to start-up brands in a variety of categories and industries.

I’ll be elaborating on these ideas, one at a time in the coming weeks.

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  1. 2009 November 11
    Casey Hollingsworth permalink

    Hello Neil, great post on ‘keys to craft beer success’. The distributor landscape has changed so much with regard to the direct competition and amount of brands in their respective portfolio’s. It is critical to have true market support in order to educate, train and live the the ‘word of mouth’ strategy. Next time you are in DC/MD/VA I would enjoy grabbing a beer and getting your feedback.

    Cheers,

    Casey

  2. 2009 November 12

    Great stuff Neal. Thanks for sharing.

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