What It's Like To Run A Brewery In Greece

In this edition of Brewery 1 on 1 I chatted with Jonathan from Slow Down Brewing in Athens, Greece. We dove into the similarities and differences of running a brewery abroad and I even learned about gyros.
If you enjoyed this interview, let me know in the comments and reach out to me at [e-mail] if you'd like to jump on one of these calls.
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Tanglefoot Brewing is a small Czech lager focused brewery in Temple, TX. In 2021 the brewery opened in the back of my family's BBQ restaurant that had been operating for 53 years. The restaurant has since closed and Tanglefoot has now taken over the entire space. This UA-cam channel was started to document the process of opening, running and growing a small craft brewery.

[@tjsotos2885]

This podcast was an eye opener for me. In the Summer of 2023 I visited a brewery in Crete and immediately had dreams of opening a small brewpub there. My family being Greek, we followed the whole Greek financial crisis in the early 2010s so i know their economy still hasn’t fully recovered yet. With that said I imagine making any amount of money off a passion of mine while living in paradise would bring me a lot of joy. I can only speak for myself but I love long form content like this that I can passively listen to while working. I also like the long form content on the practical application side of your brewery. The nitty gritty details of opening up a brewery in the US or in a land with a foreign culture and regulatory environment really demystifies what it takes to get started. Most always talk about the fun aspects or beat around the bush when it comes to the boring stuff but I am more interested in the monotonous and bureaucratic side so I can financially and emotionally prepare myself for the unexpected soft costs of running this type of business.

[@tanglefootbrewing]

Great feedback! Happy to do more long form discussions with industry folks, always enjoy it myself too, whoch is a plus 🍻

[@beeroquoisnation]

Top to bottom this was great. I have no intent to open a brewery, brew pub, taproom etc. but always find myself engaged by the conversation. I never set out to become a dad either...it just happened. My interest is in system engineering. How does one comprehend system dynamics without being fluent in the dialect? I only homebrew. Cheers.

[@tanglefootbrewing]

Thanks for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed it. Keep on brewing 🍻

[@grosuciprian]

vat 19-24 % is normal in the EU, and tipping is a moronic concept, if i feel like i will round the bill from 18-19 euros to 20 but sometimes i will not, this is why there are minimum wage laws in the EU, and yes central/eastern EU is like 10-12 years behind the US, western EU is like 4-7 years behind and the UK is like 3-5 years behind the US in market development and overall trend. Also one of the bigest mistakes at the beginning is to launch with a too small capacity and being unable to scale up to a comfortable income.

[@tanglefootbrewing]

Starting small definitely has huge challenges. Starting too big is pretty tough as well. Hard to find the sweet spot 🍻