Craft Beer Business Essentials Certificate

Thinking about starting your own craft beer brewery? It's more than just brewing a good product. UNC Charlotte's Craft Beer Business Essentials Certificate program provides the skills you need to be successful from creating a business plan all the way to making a profit and increasing distribution. Here is what some local brewery experts have to say.

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• Key takeaways from the Craft Beer Business Essentials Certificate Program include best practices and pitfalls related to start-up financing and financial growth. 
• Although the craft beer business community offers a unique culture of collaboration, mutual support and success, and sharing of consumers, it’s imperative to differentiate your product, brand, and personality as well as establish effective sales and marketing strategies to bolster sales and loyalty of individual consumers and retail customers alike.
• The Craft Beer Business Essentials Certificate program has an accelerated curriculum. You can complete the certificate in less than 12 weeks assuming you take all four courses consecutively. Each of the four courses has the convenience of a hybrid format of self-paced online content with only one face-to-face Saturday.