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The episode discusses expanding a brewery's beverage options and outdoor taproom spaces with guest Chelsea Rhodes from Alley Brewing.

Expanding your brewery's beverage program beyond beer can be tricky, but rewarding as a way to widen your customer audience. Expanding your physical footprint from indoors to outdoors when weather allows can also be a challenge with similar business rewards when done well. On this episode we have a conversation with Chelsea Rhodes of Alley Brewing in Denver about how and why a Nano brewery can also offer much more than beer on the menu and the evolution of using outdoor taproom spaces in better weather. The BYO Nano Podcast Episode 76 is sponsored by: NanoCon Online Registration has opened for NanoCon Online. On October 23rd craft brewing industry experts will present a full-day of live seminars covering Brewery Operations, Business Operations & Sales, and Start-Ups for the small-scale, taproom-oriented brewer. Get your questions answered live and have future access to NanoCon Online video recordings and course materials for all sessions. Register now at NanoCon.beer and save $25! BYO Nano+ Membership Get access to hundreds of hours of on-demand videos covering small craft brewery strategies with BYO’s Nano+ Membership. Learn from craft beer experts watching replays of past…

People in this episode

Host: John Holl

Guest: Chelsea Rhodes

Topics covered

• brewery expansion
• beverage options
• taproom space
• nano brewery
• outdoor spaces
• customer audience

Keywords

• brewery
• beverage program
• outdoor taproom
• nano brewery
• craft brewing
• customer audience
• business operations

Sponsors

NanoCon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Alley Brewing, BYO

Places: Denver

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