WORD TO THE WISE
  Sam Holloway  
President,
Co-Founder
Greetings!
REOPENING OUR TAPROOMS: COSTS ARE UP, SEATING IS DOWN... HOW TO PLAN A PROFITABLE REOPENING
Some local governments have yet to allow breweries to reopen their taprooms while others have just issued orders to make them close again. While no one likes the uncertainty about whether and how you will be allowed to operate, we would like to call your attention to a white paper on optimizing the yield in your front of house operations - no matter how many seats you can use.

The standard measure for front of house operations yield is RevPASH - Revenue per available seat per hour. At CAS, we have hospitality operations guru Dr. Mark Meckler at our disposal. Mark recommends that basing decisions solely on revenue isn't the best strategy. Mark offers contribution margin per available seat hour - ComPASH - as a strategically more valuable planning tool. Use your downtime wisely and click this white paper today! Optimizing RevPASH and ComPASH: Working with Space and Time to Optimize Pub and Tasting Room Profitability (Publicly Available). (Image Credit: Washington Beer Blog)
CAS MEMBERS DISCUSS HOW A SOCIALLY DISTANT TAPROOM MAY OPERATE EFFECTIVELY

Join one of our most active forum threads and tell us what is working and what isn't as you open a socially distant drinking experience. Members from Occidental Brewing (Portland, OR USA) and The Lost Abbey (San Diego, CA USA) have shared their thoughts, add your insights to these important threads today!
PUBLIC VIDEO: THE SCIENCE OF SELLING BEER TO-GO & ONLINE: STRATEGIES FOR SMALL BREWERIES
OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH AUSTRALIA'S INDEPENDENT BREWERS ASSOCIATION IS PRODUCING IMMEDIATE RESULTS!

Our Australian membership more than doubled the first week of this exciting partnership. If your state brewers guild or beer trade association is looking to support its members with our content, please email Sam Holloway today! Together, we can survive COVID-19 and emerge stronger on the other side! Below are just a few of our new members in Australia:
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CAS MEMBERS TEAM UP TO OFFER LIVE WEBINAR JULY 8, 2020: WHAT IF THINGS GO SIDEWAYS?

We are all operating in a state of heightened uncertainty. That doesn't mean we can sit on our hands and hope for the best. Sometimes, it makes sense to plan for the worst. CAS Members, Thad Fisco (Portland Kettle Works, LABrewatory) and Rick Wehner (Brewery Finance) are co-hosting a live webinar July 8 to have some difficult conversations about what the future looks like if things don't go well. I encourage every member to check out this live webinar (on Zoom). We can all hope for the best, but we need to know our options if things go sideways.
FEATURED MEMBER OF THE MONTH
Tamara and Peter Gerber
Pioneer Brewing
Orange, New South Wales
Australia
I love it when my job allows me to travel and to meet new people who have dedicated their lives and their livelihoods to craft beer. I have often dreamed about what a 100% zero carbon footprint craft brewery would look like and it always involved a farm to raise the ingredients, solar power to run the production facility, and back-breaking work coupled with passion and a sense of humor to survive the inevitable challenges of brewing beer this way. I must say, Tamara and Pete Gerber embody just about every bit of this dream, but for them it is a wonderful reality. Except Pete ended up breaking his leg instead of his back - which I believe is a good thing ?!? Thank you, Gerber Family for joining CAS and serving as an inspiration for brewing entrepreneurs around the world!
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