Craft Distillery Financial Models

Manufactures distilled beverage products using inputs it purchases and sells the finished goods to external customers. Production, inventory and customer shipments are separate steps.

Earns from

External finished unit sold

Sales limited by

Bottleneck production stage, good-output yield and inventory

Manufactures physical distilled beverage products for another business brand or specification. In this configuration the manufacturer buys the main inputs and sells accepted finished batches; the customer owns the brand, not necessarily the materials.

Earns from

Accepted finished unit or batch

Sales limited by

Production bottleneck, batch size and acceptance requirements

Physically processes customer-owned materials into distilled beverage products. The operator earns a conversion or processing fee; ownership of the principal input and resulting product remains with the customer under this model.

Earns from

Processed quantity or billed machine-hour

Sales limited by

Machine time, process yield and customer material availability

Manufactures distilled beverage products and sells part of its own output through an onsite tasting room or direct visitor outlet. Production and retail service share one operator but have separate physical bottlenecks.

Earns from

External unit sale and separately priced tasting

Sales limited by

Manufacturing batches, inventory and visitor-service capacity