Granite City, BJ's in Reno
The 'wort house' is in Iowa, since there is no fermentation going on there from what I understand there is no 'license' needed for brewing. They move the 'wort' in diary style trucks moving from location to location. There are only a few 'brewer's for the whole chain. Onsite managers handle filtration, carbonation etc. The patent is sort of a joke but to the uninformed it must seem like 'magic'. Clearly for the investors... The whole thing is to beat the tax man. If you aren't transporting alcohol you aren't having to play around with distributors. If it were finished product and you moved product into a three tier state you'd loose any advantage profit wise as the distributor would 'bend you over'. Smart for profit lame for beer quality...
BJ's in Reno found this out the hard way. California is a three tier state and bringing in beer from Nevada requires them to run it through a distributor. They built the Reno brewery with the intent of bringing a lot of beer to CA. They got 'busted' by the CA dept of Revenue(or similar dept.) for lack of paying taxes. (FYI, this is second hand info I will except being corrected for the record.) BJ's makes way better beer too FYI... Another issue with the BJ's 'way' is they fill 1/2 bbls and transfer into grundies at the restaurant level which must be pretty tedious...
Both groups have figured out a way to get beer to multiple sites both seem to be doing very well without major investments in brewers and equipment for every site served....
Tash
The 'wort house' is in Iowa, since there is no fermentation going on there from what I understand there is no 'license' needed for brewing. They move the 'wort' in diary style trucks moving from location to location. There are only a few 'brewer's for the whole chain. Onsite managers handle filtration, carbonation etc. The patent is sort of a joke but to the uninformed it must seem like 'magic'. Clearly for the investors... The whole thing is to beat the tax man. If you aren't transporting alcohol you aren't having to play around with distributors. If it were finished product and you moved product into a three tier state you'd loose any advantage profit wise as the distributor would 'bend you over'. Smart for profit lame for beer quality...
BJ's in Reno found this out the hard way. California is a three tier state and bringing in beer from Nevada requires them to run it through a distributor. They built the Reno brewery with the intent of bringing a lot of beer to CA. They got 'busted' by the CA dept of Revenue(or similar dept.) for lack of paying taxes. (FYI, this is second hand info I will except being corrected for the record.) BJ's makes way better beer too FYI... Another issue with the BJ's 'way' is they fill 1/2 bbls and transfer into grundies at the restaurant level which must be pretty tedious...
Both groups have figured out a way to get beer to multiple sites both seem to be doing very well without major investments in brewers and equipment for every site served....
Tash
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