Chris Farmand
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Small Batch Standard is the premier financial agency built to serve the craft brewing industry. Our team of brewery consultants, accountants, tax specialists and industry experts are here to help breweries like yours grow, profit, and thrive. Since we started working with Small Batch Standard, we've had triple-digit growth across our bottom line. It's wild.

I never imagined I'd see results like that. There were the pioneers. And in the decades that followed Fritz Maytag, a few hundred early entrants got in for the love of the game. Low volumes, small accounts, and healthy dose of mom-and-pop culture kept the movement alive, despite an anemic 0.1% market share. A trickle of market share starts to go to the likes of Sierra Nevada, Boston Beer Company, Dogfish Head, et.

In 2012, it happened. The craft market exploded and anyone with a home brew recipe and a dream was getting in. Brewery consultants, vendors, and financiers start to overrun industry conferences, a sure sign the "getting was good."
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At Small Batch Standard, everything we do is in the service of helping craft breweries grow profits.
We do this in order to build deep, successful relationships with the owners and operators who make this industry great.
And because of that belief, our ultimate aim at Small Batch Standard is to get craft owners and operators back to what they got into the business to do in the first place: brewing delicious beer, building a legacy, and creating memorable experiences for their customers.
We do what we do in order to enable those goals through financial discipline, informed strategy and intelligent decision-making.
The expertise that makes our work so special and effective for the craft partners we get to work with isn't just built into our knowledge base and service.
It's deeply embedded in our people and our culture.
Meet the folks that bring our process, our values, and our "why" to fruition through their hard work, creativity, and love for the craft.
In 2010, Chris put a stake in the ground and dedicated his firm to the craft brewing industry, with the foresight that niche expertise would be the way of the future.
This assessment is designed to help you establish where your brewery stands with respect to the success benchmarks we've established across the key functions of the brewery.
The output of the Brewery Benchmark Assessment (BBA) distills a decade of data and collective wisdom down into clear, actionable recommendations that you and your team can use to make those intelligent, hard, game-changing decisions we speak so highly of.
It's a snapshot of where you've come from, where you are today, and where you could be headed in the future based on the best information available.
We believe meaningful progress starts with numbers, and comes to fruition when we use those numbers to inform proactive, best-practice-based guidance to help owners like you uncover opportunities to increase profitability, maximize efficiencies, and avoid stumbling blocks on your path to growth.
This is what we call Numbers Powered Growth, and it's our foundational service designed to help our craft partners make industry-leading decisions.
We help craft breweries grow profits, and our team was built to augment yours to accomplish exactly that.
We regularly publish our best insights, extracted from our direct front line experience, feedback, and observation of craft industry.
This is not the place for patronizing, feel-good stories, but instead the hard truth owners and operators need to hear.
You'll also find our most recent publications below.
When you subscribe to our email list, you'll receive both weekly insights like these as well as our quarterly email series as we publish them.
If you are open-minded, ambitious, and dedicated to building something significant, we'd love to have you with us.
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