Another A-B purchase

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If I made a living selling something and I had a chance to sell it all, why wouldn’t I? Its not like there’s more honor in selling pints than kegs, or kegs vs the whole brewery. As far as it ruining craft beer, there’s plenty of small breweries already doing that at the pint level.

That’s not the point. The point is people doing it for themselves, their way. Not allowing a big conglomerate to buy them out, contributing to the corporate “reich”.
People get into making beer and selling it because it’s something they love doing. Selling out is compromising those ideals. This is like Bob Dylan doing commercials. He has stated before he plays music for the money and ONLY FOR THE MONEY. He may write good music, but that is selling out. Period.

As homebrewers we can be all about the beer.

Once you open a brewery you had better be focused on making a profit. If you don’t, the doors will get padlocked, all assets auctioned off, and you are a Homebrewer once again.

Very true.  If you aren’t in business to make money, you shouldn’t be in business.  Ideals don’t put food on the (your) table.  And if your product is crappy, the market will let you know.

I see this confusion between ‘profit’ and ‘earnings’ a lot. a profit is what’s left over after you pay for everything, including your labor. If what you want to do is make a living doing something you love profit only has to be enough to ensure a comfortable retirement. If you are in it to run a business then profit is more important because you need to show potential investors how much money can be made without effort on their part. If you are calculating your ‘profit’ as how much money you take home at the end of the year and you are actually doing work in the business you’re not calculating it correctly. If you aren’t doing any work and you are still taking home money at the end of the year that’s ‘profit’.

there was a brewery not far from here that crashed and burned, the owner seemed to be doing well and living the dream. The creditors eventually had enough.

[morticaixavier]

That’s a different story. He was making losses and covering with credit

[stevo155 (theDarkSide)]

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I see this confusion between ‘profit’ and ‘earnings’ a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts