8/4/2023 0 Comments Homebrew shop hobart![]() So I would have based my initial supply cost on this. One of the vendors (LD Carlson) told me typically mark up is 30%-50% on items. ![]() Now I did have a backup plan if I was unable to secure wholesale cost. Just don't call the shop in your home town. My suggestion here is to contact shops in hops of help. As of right now I am ahead of schedule based on this alone. Luck have it that a gentleman that owns a shop in Denver gave me access to all his price sheets for all his vendor. I started emailing brew shops and posting to forums for help. So how do you get your pricing sheets you may ask? Well I got lucky so to speak. You could of course just jump in feet first and secure your location and then get your pricing sheet and hope for the best. Unfortunately places like LD Carlson, Brewcraft or BSG won't just give them to you. But before you get to the intangibles you need to find out wholesale pricing on supplies. By 'intangibles' I mean power bill to your shop, your water bill, your security, shelving for your shop, containers, shop decor (very important) and ect. The hard part is figuring out costs of supplies and intangibles. The easy part is figuring out your commercial property cost, your license cost and your website cost. The most important thing in my opinion is your cost to start this thing up. OK to get going with this thing you need a solid business plan (aside from a beer making populous). Well, your supplier will not supply to you based on distance/time of travel. Let's say you want to open a shop 15 minutes away from another supply shop in your area. These vendors also play the distance game. Anyone who goes about opening a business that way clearly has money to waste. So what that says is take a huge leap of faith, secure your store front and then get a pricing sheet and hope you nail it. You have to actually have a physical store front to just get pricing. WILL NOT give you a pricing sheet unless you have your business license AND your store front. ![]() Well guess what? Vendors like BSD, LD Carlson and ect. ![]() And to make that business plan you need to understand how much wholesale beer supplies cost. That doesn't mean 'hey I got 20K, I'm gonna open a store' and you just jump in. You need a good business plan to do this right? I mean a good business plan. I will explain in another update/posting. This was a b#tch when I first started looking. Next thing is how many brew shops are already in place in your area? If you already have a LHBS in your area then you need to factor in the 250K people per LHBS equation. However the general surrounding area is 1.5 million. For instance, my 'city' has 365,000 people. At a bare minimum you need a populous 250,000 people to support one supply store. I considered doing a blog on this but it makes more sense to me to post here based on the sheer number of members/visitors.įirst thing is, what is the population of your area/city? This is very important. If that happens, I hope at the very least the info I post over the course of the next 3-5 months helps the next person. I may fail miserably at getting this up and running. I have also found out that information to 'guide' you along in the process is scarce. ![]() In the brief 4 weeks that I have engaged in this, I have found out it will be difficult. No advice to seek out or business plans already generated. There is no handbook to opening a brew supply store. I'm hoping that by posting info as I go along through this process it will help/aid/benefit someone who wants to do this on their own. I'm posting this because this journey is just in it's infancy. Now, I am not posting this to say hey 'look at me' or promote it. Just as the title of the thread reads, I am opening a LHBS. ![]()
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