Incubating a New Beer Brand | VinePair

Building a brick-and-mortar brewery is a capital-intensive endeavor with costs that can quickly top a million bucks. Onerous loans or selling shares can stick fledgling owners in a fiscal pickle, especially in these brewery-cluttered tumultuous times. To test the hoppy waters while hedging bets, breweries instead are turning to incubators and shared-equipment facilities to push pints and cans into the world. For VinePair, I take a look at how this approach is unfolding across the country.