• Bookkeeping

    Cost accounting hack for craft breweries under 50,000 bbls, part 1

    The amount of business tasks you need to consider daily is long, including ordering and maintaining a vast inventory of raw ingredients, writing recipes, paying distribution fees and service taxes… The list goes on. Because there is so much possibility for error, operations can easily fall between the cracks. In some states, breweries are required by law to sell through distributors, who take a massive cut from the retail price. Meanwhile, taproom sales can be quite high, and if direct distribution to retailers is allowed, then the brewery has a price point for them that’s somewhere between those two extremes. So, it makes a lot of sense to structure the…