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Theanks for your advices!So what would the ballpark be on being able to serve to the public as well as to restaurants. The reason i ask is because competing for draft space with the big boys is really tough. They have a lot of advantages and can literally buy you out of the draft system. Especially when there may be limited draft towers available.
You will make significantly more money per Liter by selling it directly to customers. Think of it as the smaller the package the higher the profit margins. So where i can sell a beer to my customers for $7-8 in my location, that is the same price that the restaurant next door sells it for, but for them to make any money off of it i have to sell it to them at a much lower price per volume.
In my state i can only sell to a distributor who then adds 30% to the price that they sell it to the bar for them to add their 30% to get to that $7-8 mark. So i can only sell the keg for about $3 per pour and that is assuming that my competition are not undercutting me at $2/pour(which with economy of scale they can and will do).
For a niche product, the closer to the consumer that you can get the better.
Another extremely important note is that it takes me about an 8 hour brew day to produce 2 bbls of beer...even using 1/6 bbl(5.17 gals) that is only 12 kegs worth of beer. It takes time to wash those kegs and pack them. Labor on a 5hl system is your biggest cost. This also does not include all of the other paperwork and labor aspects of brewing. If you were able to offset your lower margin beer with direct to consumer sales for even a small portion of the beer produced that could make the business far more profitable.
It is very doable at 5hl for one person, but just producing the beer and packaging it is a full time job. Everything else would need to be handled by another employee.
A brewery-pub here have minimum boiler 1000Liters that's the law, don't know why, but just brewery no have any limitations on size,
Also for pub the money needs to be is to much,Its like opening 2 different business
Brewery otherwise can be different, don't know why but if people visiting the brewery the law is to different here, that's why all country have very few business like this,
I know only one i believe there are more but not much,
A easy way to do is to open a different place selling your beers different business, but this needs big capital
I'm plumber i think i can manage both, after all if need many hours that's means i have many sales,
100 kegs per month i think can be manageable, but I don't have experience to say that