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As we head into 2024, the brewing {industry} is dealing with critical headwinds which have restricted development for a lot of breweries and accelerated the closure of others. Shopper patterns are altering, product preferences proceed to evolve, ingesting events shift as our rhythms of labor and life discover completely different beats, and the playbook on which many companies relied on now not produces the identical outcomes. Nevertheless, necessity has at all times been the mom of invention for craft brewers, and right this moment’s challenges really feel a bit acquainted to those that skilled an analogous contraction within the late ’90s or large value will increase as a result of hop scarcity of the late ’00s.
To discover how brewers are dealing with these challenges head-on right this moment—and dealing to “future-proof” their breweries—we tapped three {industry} execs to share their viewpoints—Patrick Tickle, CEO of Embody, Cole Hackbarth, VP of brewing operations for Cincinnati’s Rhinegeist, and Dave Thibodeau, president and cofounder of Ska Brewing in Durango, Colorado. Via the dialog, they focus on:
- main challenges for breweries right this moment, akin to rising COGS, decrease consumer-pricing thresholds, and the diminishing returns from innovation
- strategizing round right this moment’s generational shift in drinkers
- creating natural and genuine innovation throughout the beer area
- variations between craft beer and flavored malt beverage (FMB) shoppers
- focusing innovation round model strengths relatively than untested classes
- supporting innovation whereas sustaining profitability by way of blended margins
- the rising influence of money move on enterprise choice making
- altering hospitality habits developed by prospects in the course of the pandemic
- managing labor prices by way of cross-training and energetic owner-operators
And extra.
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