#GREAT NOTION BREWING UPDATE#

A new partnership with Doordash allows GN to expand the delivery zone to include Seattle, allowing for more flexibility with scheduled delivery windows, and no minimum order for customers. Shipping in Oregon and Washington began earlier this year and is now expanded to include Ohio, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Vermont, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Virginia, Washington DC, Nevada, and Anchorage, Alaska.

#GREAT NOTION BREWING UPDATE#

The app update will expand Great Notion’s local delivery and nationwide shipping zones.

We want to engage not just those beer aficionados but regular folks who want to be inspired and have fun. “Too often, beer can get boring or nerdy. It’s just that construction projects always get delayed.“At Great Notion, we strive to Keep Beer Fun! Whether it’s through crazy flavors like Fluff (a cotton candy-inspired beer), our space-forest themed beer boxes, or by dropping our very own video game!” exclaims co-founder and CEO Paul Reiter. PR: I’m telling everyone summer 2020, but we’re really hoping by April. If you want to grow and look at new markets, you have to look years ahead. Although it sounds like things move quickly, these things take years. It’s just a headache and it takes a long, long time. If you’re going to get a loan, that takes time. Then you have a contract with your general contractor. Then you work on the general contractor, get the architect approved by the landlord, get your general contractor approved by the landlord.

Then you work on permitting with the city. First you sign a Letter Of Intent, which lays out the initial, big terms of the lease. There’s permitting, contracts, and leases. You have to be strategic and think at least 1 to 2 years ahead. KG: Has it been difficult to open a new place in a new state? There’s a downtown Ballard with some nicer restaurants. But when they get hungry, I don’t know what they do. Instead of bar hopping, people brewery hop from tasting room to tasting room. There’s a ton of breweries within a 5 block radius. PR: Ballard is the beer capital of Washington. KG: How’d you choose Ballard as your new neighborhood? And we’ve done collaboration beers with our friends at Fremont, Reuben’s Brews, and Cloudburst. PR: We started doing more tap takeovers up there. KG: How have you gotten your name out in a new market?

That’s different than where I grew up with on the East Coast. We’ll say hi in the street and we’ll look at you. They care about being nice to each other. On the whole, people really care for their local communities and the environment. Seattle is kind of just a bigger version of Portland. Portland is a pretty small city and the next biggest city is Seattle. But right now, the easiest way to get our beer to customers is to create exciting places for people to come drink. In the future, maybe we can even create mobile taprooms. To do that, we can create our own taprooms, or even ship it. From the beginning, our business model has been to sell our beer direct to customers. Paul Reiter: We started talking about Seattle a couple years ago.

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