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professional?
anyone sell bottled alcohol professionally?..small or medium scale?
id like to know how u do it..or is it only a hobby for you?
Unfortunately, I'm not a professional seller of bottled alcohol but I'm a regular buyer.
Are you talking about working in a beer/liquor store or selling of homebrew or just professional brewers? Selling homebrew is illegal.
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I think they are asking if anyone works or owns a brewery and is interested in the details on how to get started, something i've always been curious about, wouldnt it be nice to love what you work?
I think they are asking if anyone works or owns a brewery and is interested in the details on how to get started, something i've always been curious about, wouldnt it be nice to love what you work?
I don't know. I think it might lose something if it wasn't just a hobby for me. I mean if I HAD to clean kegs and couldn't just put it off until the weekend, or HAD to get the next batch going immediately, would it be as fun?
The other part of it is it takes a ton of capital to get started and doesn't pay well at all. I was complaining to my good friend who runs a very well known brewery here in Colorado about how much my government job pays and how after being at it for 3 years I'd hoped to be making more, he told me he worked for 4 years before the brewery started to turn a profit and he's now been in 14 and is "about" in his words where I am salary-wise. It's a tough career for sure.
My friend is a sales agents of an alcoholic drinks company in town. He used to sell bottled alcohol for the benefit of the company.
cmanley542 wrote:
I think they are asking if anyone works or owns a brewery and is interested in the details on how to get started, something i've always been curious about, wouldnt it be nice to love what you work?
I don't know. I think it might lose something if it wasn't just a hobby for me. I mean if I HAD to clean kegs and couldn't just put it off until the weekend, or HAD to get the next batch going immediately, would it be as fun?
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You know 10 years ago, I was saying the same thing about computers. I had been doing some amazing things with computers since the 80's, as a hobby, and having a blast with it. When the Network Admin, left our company to persue something else, she recomended me to the CIO and I was on the hot seat. He made me an offer I couldn't refuse and I've been at it ever since.
It does change things, but I think the positive changes out weigh the negatives by a great deal. I still enjoy it just as much as I did before it was my job, but now, lol, no-one bitches when they see me at my desk reading a book or magizine about computers. I don't miss sales, at all. I don't think I've worked a day in the last 10 years.
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