WHY did I leave my job to start DashBrew?

People have asked me why I left a fairly long, lucrative career at Microsoft to pursue a “risky” endeavor of launching DashBrew and KegMetrics.  I will try to explain it best I can but honestly if you don’t have a desire to do something similar you may not fully...

Keg Tracking is Pointless; Keg Management is Critical

There’s been a little bit of talk recently about Keg Tracking. In particular I just read a post from another company about how breweries are faced with either spending a lot of money on RFID equipment and setup training or spending a lot of time scanning for...

Inventory Challenges-Primary Challenges Reported by Craft Breweries

[craft brewing industry report excerpt] Primary Challenges Reported by Craft Breweries Of the Primary Challenges reported, the respondents identified issues in three main areas: Inventory, Process, and Keg Management. Inventory Challenges Inventory Challenges are...

10 Signs of Local Beer Market Saturation

We have seen brewery numbers increase dramatically and consistently lately.  I wanted to look more at what signs might indicate possible market saturation.  I believe saturation will happen at some point and it will happen at the local level. Specifically, I mean that...

Top 10 Take Aways from #cbc16

Here’s a condensed list of the top 10 most interesting learnings I got out of CBC16 (in no particular order.)  Of course there were a ton more but if I listed them all out I think you all would not read them. Enjoy and we hope to see you next year. -DashBrew It’s a...