Financial Benchmarks for Breweries (2026 Edition): An Owner's Guide to Running a Profitable Brewery in Any Market
If you're an established Brewery Owner, Operator, or Investor and find yourself asking either "How do we get profitable?" or "How profitable can we get?" you'll find exactly those answers in this session.
With a wide range of different brewery types and sizes, true apples-to-apples comparisons are rare, and many owners end up flying blind, running the business with a finger to the wind. Instead, in this session we’ll use our Brewery Benchmarks Model, built on data from our work with 285+ breweries across the country, to give clarity on the most important financial benchmarks brewery owners need to know.
By the end of the session, you’ll know how you compare to your peers, where your biggest profit opportunities are, and how to avoid the mistakes most common to your model. Our goal is to help eliminate the guesswork, so you can make confident decisions and run a profitable business, regardless of size, age, or market conditions.
Learning Objectives
Learn key financial benchmarks across the spectrum of brewery models, including pricing, COGS, labor, rent and utilities, cash, and debt.
Understand where you stand against benchmarks specific to your brewery’s model, size, and revenue mix.
Uncover your brewery’s largest profit-generating opportunities and how to take action to capitalize on them.
Walk away with a customized roadmap to improve and sustain your brewery’s performance, regardless of market conditions.
About Small Batch Standard
Small Batch Standard is a team of specialized CPAs, MBAs, and financial experts that help breweries grow profits through outsourced bookkeeping and accounting, benchmarking and guidance, and tax. We have supported 285+ craft breweries over the past 15 years and currently serve 126 clients on a monthly basis all the way from single-location taprooms to advanced high-volume producers.
About the Speaker, Chris Farmand
Chris got his start in 2010 helping a new brewery build its back-office systems, a firsthand look at how complex running a brewery can be. That experience led him to found Small Batch Standard. He’s worked with more than 200 breweries, helping them uncover profit through outsourced accounting, tax compliance, and benchmark consulting. Chris holds a BS in Business Finance from the University of Florida and an MBA from the University of North Florida, and is an active member of both the AICPA and FICPA.
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