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Congratulations to the Texas craft breweries who brought home awards in the 2024 World Beer Cup! Produced by the Brewers Association, the World Beer Cup honored the best beers in 110 categories covering 172 different beer styles in an awards ceremony in Las Vegas on Wednesday, April 24. Throughout 14 sessions spanning seven days, a panel of 280 judges hailing from 37 countries meticulously evaluated 9,300 entries. Representing 2,060 breweries across 50 nations, this year’s World Beer Cup solidified its status as the world’s largest and most ..read more

Congratulations to the Texas Small Businesses who brought home 17 awards in the 2024 Craft Beer Marketing Awards! The Craft Beer Marketing Awards, “The Crushies,” launched in 2020 and feature categories that celebrate the very best of beer marketing and the teams, and individuals behind them. Breweries, their agencies, artists, and marketing partners are invited to enter their top work in this international competition. This year, Texas brought home a total of 17 awards, the third most of any state. Award Winning Texas Companies: GLOBAL CRUSHIE Vector Brewing – Dallas, TXCraig Bradley ..read more

Where’s the Profit? How to (actually) make money selling your beer in 2024 ABOUT THE PRESENTATION It isn’t 2015 anymore. As the craft industry has plateaued, running a profitable brewery has become more and more challenging each year. This presentation will provide craft business owners a deep dive to understand why this is and, more importantly, the strategic changes owners need to make in order to sell the right beer, to the right consumers, at the right margins, to generate cash and finally get ahead. Learning Objectives: Learn why the 2015 playbook (more beer, more equipment, more space ..read more

Carrots: Variable Compensation Programs ABOUT THE PRESENTATION An overview of the principles behind how humans are incentivized in the pursuit of goals, and how best to use those insights in the business landscape. Attendees will learn the basics of building compensation and bonus structures that create the incentives you want, while avoiding the perverse and misguided incentives that you don’t. Moreover, they will learn how to apply these same techniques in the broader landscape, helping everyone reach the sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, and financial achievement they desire. The follo ..read more

Forging Financials from Beskar: Protecting Our Breweries From Financial Distress This Star Wars themed-talk will delve into the current economic environment of our rapidly evolving industry, exploring why we aren’t “at one with the force” before introducing concepts and calculations you can compute now to see where you stand compared to expectations from banks and investors. We will then transition to an in-depth managerial accounting lesson and walk through how a bill of materials should look like with the inclusion of overhead. A target costing innovation exercise will allow us to determine ..read more

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Sponsorship Kit Opportunities for Brewers WHO FOR THE TEXAS CRAFT BEER COMMUNITY. BY THE TEXAS CRAFT BEER COMMUNITY. The Texas Craft Brewers Festival is the largest annual fundraising event for Texas Craft Brewers Guild, a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade association for brewers working to advance the Texas craft beer industry through advocacy and education. WHAT Texas Craft Brewers Festival features the best craft beer Texas has to offer. Plus, live music and local food all in a stunning setting on the banks of the Colorado River in East Austin. Exclusively featuring inde ..read more