Craft Brewery Financial Training Podcast

What if you could see your brewery’s financial performance throughout the month instead of waiting weeks for the books to close? In this podcast episode, I talk with Rob Hamilton of Digits about how AI is changing accounting, from categorizing transactions and processing invoices to giving business owners more timely insight into spending and financial results. Rob explains where automation can reduce manual work and why accountants still play a critical role in reviewing exceptions, va...

In this episode, I talk with Chris Overlay from Get Hoptimized about how breweries can build a repeatable system for generating more private-event leads. Chris walks us through what your website needs before you start advertising, how to showcase your space and amenities, and how to use Meta ads and dedicated landing pages to reach potential customers. We also dig into common mistakes, the importance of fast follow-up, and the numbers you should track to determine whether your mar...

In this episode, I’m introducing my new book, Brewery Finance Basics, a practical financial handbook designed to help brewery owners and managers build a more profitable, sustainable business. The book brings together 12 essential areas of brewery finance, from understanding your numbers and managing margins to cash flow, budgeting, benchmarks, and financial operating systems. I’ll also share lessons from the first chapter: Brewery Financial Standard Operating Procedures. Just as you wo...

Most breweries spend hours every week pulling reports from accounting software, brewery management systems, payroll platforms, and spreadsheets, only to end up with outdated or incorrect data. In this Brewery Financial Round Table, we revisit the four-part Financial Operating System and welcome Jeremy Carney from Central Coast Analytics to demonstrate how breweries can automate their most important KPIs into a single, live dashboard. Learn how real-time financial visibility improv...

Most breweries have a financial operating system problem. What I mean by this is that financial statements arrive too late, budgets get ignored, department managers don't know what numbers matter, and owners end up carrying the financial burden alone. In this episode, I walk through a practical four-step framework for installing a Brewery Financial Operating System to solve this problem. You'll learn how to build financial confidence across your leadership team, create a meaningfu...