From financing to sanitation, 10 must-read business features for craft breweries coping with COVID-19

It’s a holiday week! You know what that means? The CBB team is going to throw up a few compilation posts, so we can kick up our feet a little early and sip a session. It’s also pretty much mid-year, so you know the CBB team is going to be a little reflective too. So, to start the day off, here are 10 excellent feature stories our readers can explore to help any craft brewery navigate the business chaos caused by COVID-19. As with every story on this site, we hope these help indie brewers better their businesses. Our readership can always get the latest coronavirus coverage just by clicking the COVID-19 button in the subjects bar on every page of this website.

Speaking of being reflective: We truly hope this 4th of July is one of the biggest business weekends of 2020. Our readers certainly deserve it. Hell, they’ve earned it. Cheers to you, craft beer pro.

Here we go…

Service without a smile? Five ways to engage customers from behind a mask

10 tips for securing brewery funding during the pandemic

Insurance Reevaluation: Five essential (and overlooked) clauses in your brewery’s policy

Craft Brewing COVID Q&A: Riley’s Brewing on the reality of taproom revenue, ramping up distribution

Learn how craft breweries can use the Internal Revenue Code to help offset some financial effects of COVID-19

The brew normal? Service, sales ideas to consider when re-opening your taproom

How to keep your brewery sanitized with limited resources

Proceed with caution: Changing brewery business models on the fly means new risk exposure

How breweries can maximize the shelter-in-place sales experience for their customers

How Braxton Brewing Co. is leaning on its brand values to prep for the future