In addition to amazing beer and education, it is our goal to ensure you always have an unbelievable experience at any Craft Beer Cellar!Īnd yes, call us a Franchise if you like, because that’s what we are. Our customers are the reason we exist and you should expect to be treated like you are important to us! We carry boxes to cars, make great eye contact, genuinely care how your day is going, and are not afraid to own our mistakes, if we screw something up. Rest assured that we have studied & researched every single beer in our stores, before we made a decision to put it on the shelf. Store Owners are Certified Cicerone® and Certified Beercierge, by Craft Beer Cellar standard many go on to obtain higher certifications. We've experimented with Biodynamic Wines and look forward to pulling together a company-wide wine philosophy and porfolio that we all can be proud of.Īll beer geeks in all of our stores are Apprentice Beercierge or Cicerone® Certified Beer Servers. So far, we've enjoyed learning so much about grapes and tiny producers, blenders and vineyards across the globe. Some Craft Beer Cellar locations have stewarded larger wine sections and helped us understand and explore how this will become a more important aspect of what Craft Beer Cellar does. We are your local good beer bottle shop and in many states, tap room, for on-premise draft service or sip-n-shop craft beer isn’t just a section of the store for us! Many of our stores offer limited food service, as well as an extensive selection of books, glassware, homebrew supplies and other related merchandise.Īs our industry has grown and changed so quickly in the past few years, around beer laws, distribution, brewing, and brewery tap rooms, with own-and-off premise sales, we've had to tweak our product sets, too.

We like to tinker with draft systems, tap faucets and kegs, and have been known to brew some pretty ridiculous beer, ourselves. We are not snobs, we are beer geeks! We are students of our trade and take great pride in learning everything we can about beer how it's made, what the ingredients are, what we should drink it from, and what food a beer pairs well or can be made with. We spend our lives in search of beers made in breweries just down the street or on the other side of the world, that are well-crafted and good examples of either their style or what we think excellent beer should be, keeping in mind that 'style' is not everything. We are a craft beer bottle shop, whose primary focus has always been the best beer that we can get our hands on. It's that simple!Īnd no, you will not find macro-brewed beer, wine, cider, sake and liquor at Craft Beer Cellar, but don't be suprised if we carry or support a damned good beer that doesn't exactly have craft or artisanal ownership. So craft beer, to us, is incredible beer. We actually wanted to stop keeping score and let what was at our core be the shining star in our stores: really amazing beer! Later that same year we made a decision to stop dividing ourselves from others, by what beer we bought and sold. Much of 2014 was spent hammering out our mission (and trinity): amazing beer, hospitality, and education! The first four years of our business, we didn't buy or sell beer that was brewed by those breweries that controlled the majority of the beer brewed in the world, breweries like AB-InBev, MillerCoors, and Gambrinus. As we grew and watched the very small industry around us grow, we realized that it was time we figured out who the heck we were. At the time this seemed appropriate, though it's worth noting that the BA is a trade organization, intent on defining a brewer, not a craft beer retail bottle shop or tap room. When we opened our first store, just over nine years ago, we very much defined ourselves by the Brewer's Association definition of a craft brewer.

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