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Brick Brewing Co.
#16
I don't think that can be the requirement, as Brick has long been HQ'd in Kitchener.
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#17
According to http://www.agco.on.ca/pdfs/en/guides/3167_a.pdf :

Quote:Where the applicant seeks to operate one on-site brewery retail store, the store must be located on the same parcel of land as the applicant’s main production site where the full brewing process takes place.

Other rules pretty much preclude anything else except on-site, with your own products only, and with 50% or more of the products sold at a store being brewed at that site. If you're big enough, you're allowed two stores! Lucky you!
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#18
(01-26-2015, 03:30 PM)zanate Wrote: According to http://www.agco.on.ca/pdfs/en/guides/3167_a.pdf :


Quote:Where the applicant seeks to operate one on-site brewery retail store, the store must be located on the same parcel of land as the applicant’s main production site where the full brewing process takes place.

Other rules pretty much preclude anything else except on-site, with your own products only, and with 50% or more of the products sold at a store being brewed at that site. If you're big enough, you're allowed two stores! Lucky you!

I'm glad we had all these many restrictions not allowing our local breweries to sell their product and force them to hand it over to foreign companies instead so that they can collect a commission on their competitors sales.

It makes so much sense!
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#19
But the new proposal is great, it'll let brewers pay nothing to stock beer in the five closest locations to their store. That way, instead of having people see the beer being made, and letting the owners do what they want with how they sell and change beers, the lovely beer store can come and take those worries away, for just the nonexistent price of their markup and drawing people away from the nearby brewery.
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#20
Did these AGCO regulations also mean that the Brick couldn't sell beer that it had brewed at its other brewery (Formosa I believe) at the Waterloo location?
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#21
Pretty sure I've bought Formosa from their Waterloo brewery retail before.
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#22
(01-27-2015, 03:19 PM)nms Wrote: Did these AGCO regulations also mean that the Brick couldn't sell beer that it had brewed at its other brewery (Formosa I believe) at the Waterloo location?
zanate was pretty clear here:
(01-26-2015, 03:30 PM)zanate Wrote:
Quote:Where the applicant seeks to operate one on-site brewery retail store, the store must be located on the same parcel of land as the applicant’s main production site where the full brewing process takes place.

Other rules pretty much preclude anything else except on-site, with your own products only, and with 50% or more of the products sold at a store being brewed at that site. If you're big enough, you're allowed two stores! Lucky you!

As long as they weren't selling more than 50% beer brewed at the other location.
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#23
[Image: Brick%20brewery--9-9-c01%20copy.jpg]

A look at the renovated Kitchener site.
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#24
Brick Brewing doubles Q4 profits



Waterloo Region Record

KITCHENER — Brick Brewing more than doubled its fourth quarter profits as sales of higher margin premium brands increased.

The Kitchener-based beer maker earned net income of $546,000 in the three months ended Jan. 31, it said Monday. That compares to $245,000 in the same period a year earlier.

For the full year, Brick recorded net income of $1.4 million, up from $525,000 a year earlier.

Fourth quarter net revenue increased to $9.1 million from $8 million. For the full year, net revenue slipped to $36.3 million from $37.7 million.

The company said profits rose because of higher prices, and increased volumes of higher margin premium brands and beverages it produces under co-packing agreements. Also, it did not have the expense of a promotion it ran a year earlier — a free can with Laker 12 packs.

Brick said volumes of its premium Waterloo brands increased 21 per cent in the year ended Jan. 31 compared to a year earlier. The Waterloo brands accounted for 5.5 per cent of its beer volume during the year.

Volumes of its Laker brand, which accounted for 88 per cent of beer volumes in fiscal 2015, fell 11.7 per cent.

Brick is in the middle of a project to expand its Kitchener facilities. It is adding a brew house to the existing bottling, packaging and distribution operations on Bingemans Centre Drive.

The company, which will vacate its facility on King Street South in Waterloo when the work is completed this fall, says the project is expected to deliver cost savings of $1 million a year.
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#25
Quote:The company said profits rose because of higher prices, and increased volumes of higher margin premium brands and beverages it produces under co-packing agreements...

Brick said volumes of its premium Waterloo brands increased 21 per cent in the year ended Jan. 31 compared to a year earlier. The Waterloo brands accounted for 5.5 per cent of its beer volume during the year. 

Volumes of its Laker brand, which accounted for 88 per cent of beer volumes in fiscal 2015, fell 11.7 per cent. 

So what they're saying is they make more money brewing "premium" brands for others "under co-packing agreements" than they do brewing cheap Laker brands. Why then did they kill most of their own premium beers over the past few years? Surely if the public is willing to pay extra for premium beer then Brick could make even higher profit margins by selling under their own labels.

Or is this just another indication of how tightly the big three brewers have the industry under their control, such that people buy "premium" beer pushed by the power of big three marketing oblivious that it wasn't really brewed by them?
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#26
Has anyone seen a rendering of what's going in at the Brick's Waterloo building?  The first page mentioned 20-25 stories, mixed residential/commercial with a ground floor restaurant.
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#27
(04-13-2015, 01:21 PM)ookpik Wrote:
Quote:The company said profits rose because of higher prices, and increased volumes of higher margin premium brands and beverages it produces under co-packing agreements...

Brick said volumes of its premium Waterloo brands increased 21 per cent in the year ended Jan. 31 compared to a year earlier. The Waterloo brands accounted for 5.5 per cent of its beer volume during the year. 

Volumes of its Laker brand, which accounted for 88 per cent of beer volumes in fiscal 2015, fell 11.7 per cent. 

So what they're saying is they make more money brewing "premium" brands for others "under co-packing agreements" than they do brewing cheap Laker brands. Why then did they kill most of their own premium beers over the past few years? Surely if the public is willing to pay extra for premium beer then Brick could make even higher profit margins by selling under their own labels.

Or is this just another indication of how tightly the big three brewers have the industry under their control, such that people buy "premium" beer pushed by the power of big three marketing oblivious that it wasn't really brewed by them?

If the demand is there, I'm sure the Brick would like to sell more of their own premium brand beers.   However, most of my beer snob friends would not consider the Brick to be a premium brewery on the same level as (say) GLB, Bellwoods, or Nickelbrook.
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#28
(04-14-2015, 10:38 AM)numberguy Wrote: However, most of my beer snob friends would not consider the Brick to be a premium brewery on the same level as (say) GLB, Bellwoods, or Nickelbrook.
Probably because Brick got out of their own premium business (Bock, Winter Bock, Wheat, Andechs, Connors, Celis, et al) in order to chase the buck-a-bottle [of premium piss] market with Laker. Sadly that move succeeded only in watering down/pissing away their own reputation for brewing premium beer.
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#29
Hopefully we see a render of the planned redevelopment of the site soon...
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#30
Article describing for opening of Brick Brewery's new brewery.
http://m.digitaljournal.com/pr/2644655
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