here is a dilemma, as everyone here knows, to even sell a drop of beer, there is a serious list of red tape and fees. We are really trying to pull back a bit with a very soft entrance into the market with only a 30-50bbl/yr production rate for the first year to test market. I am not comfortable going all in with the economy what it is.
Kansas is a 3 tier state and we have already had that reality check that distributors do not want to hassle with a new/small brewer. We have decided that a 3rd party distributor license would be needed just to get the product to retail.
One of the nifty issues in Kansas, the statute reads that a micro is one that produces a min of 100bls and max of 15,000. I asked "what if we make less than 100bbl"? In which they reply that we need to buy the mass brewer license at 4x the cost! I said "so we have to pay more to make less"... Of course the ABC said, you bet! That makes no sense at all. I am kind of thinking of just getting the micro license and doing what we can but certainly not paying for extra bbls that we don't make.
Does anyone have any experience with a small Kansas start up or state with similar statutes? I don't think the term "soft entrance" is a term used with the ABC. They expect people to jump all in with a huge investment and hope it all works out. I just don't do business like that.
Kansas is a 3 tier state and we have already had that reality check that distributors do not want to hassle with a new/small brewer. We have decided that a 3rd party distributor license would be needed just to get the product to retail.
One of the nifty issues in Kansas, the statute reads that a micro is one that produces a min of 100bls and max of 15,000. I asked "what if we make less than 100bbl"? In which they reply that we need to buy the mass brewer license at 4x the cost! I said "so we have to pay more to make less"... Of course the ABC said, you bet! That makes no sense at all. I am kind of thinking of just getting the micro license and doing what we can but certainly not paying for extra bbls that we don't make.
Does anyone have any experience with a small Kansas start up or state with similar statutes? I don't think the term "soft entrance" is a term used with the ABC. They expect people to jump all in with a huge investment and hope it all works out. I just don't do business like that.
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