Focus Session - Brewing Strong Partnerships: Managing External Contract Relationships

Description: This workshop is designed to help breweries effectively manage their relationships with external contractors. The logistics and challenges and how to manage expectations from these relationships will be discussed. This workshop will provide practical strategies and tools to ensure successful and mutually beneficial partnerships.

Relevance: As alternative beverages and N/A beverages are gaining in popularity, more brewers are looking to external sites to expand their portfolios. This session will discuss a broad range of topics ranging from how to choose the proper contractor and site to how to meet quality expectations on the final product produced and packaged and everything in between.

Brewing Summit 2025 Theme: The current challenges that the breweries face is how to produce their products to meet the current customer demands for N/A beer, alternative beverages and even the demand for new and exciting packaging's for their own internally produced products. The panelists have years of experience dealing with these issues and ones that you never even thought to ask.