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Originally Posted by Ducay
Have enjoyed the Ridge IPA a few times via Alberta Beer Exchange, so keep up the good work.
Curious, how does the contract brewing game work - do you get to be involved in the actual process(ie physically adjusting things) or do you just specify ingredients/timing/etc?
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Yeah the recipe's are ours and we can be onsite for brewing to provide input (or could be pre covid) but they scale the recipe to their system and do the actual brewing. We meet after to discuss and go over the process/recipe and tweak if needed. We're responsible for all other aspects of the process as well, labels, cans, freight etc. and any ingredients that fall outside of their core ingredients that they use. An example is our Ridge IPA uses a yeast type they don't use so we have to source it ourselves which involves overnight shipping in ice packs from Quebec. Contract brewing does limit some of the stuff we can do, the main painpoint is that we can't sell our beer ourselves directly, everything has to go through Liquor Connect, which sucks.