This week on the podcast we talk to Chris Smith, Vice President and tHe gUy tHaT DoEs tHe tHiNgS, from Community Beer Works. We talk to Chris about starting one of the the first breweries in Buffalo’s brewsurgance (™ pending), the trials and tribulations of a brewery, why being a neighborhood brewery is vital for CBW and growing and scaling at a time when there were over 30 craft breweries in the Queen City.
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