Draft beverage & hospitality insights
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Are People Drinking Less Beer, or Do They Just Not Want What Is on Your Taps?
VIDEO PODCAST: Beer volume fell about 4 percent in the first half of 2026. Draft gained channel share over the same period. Our co-founder Nick Spohn on why a draft decline steeper than the market is a building problem, not a generational one.
Your Keg Does Not Yield 124 Pints. Here Is What It Actually Yields.
A half barrel holds 124 pints on paper. Two measured venues converted 95.9 and 116.7 into actual sales. One of them misses the only published pour cost tolerance in the category by more than three times, and nothing on its P&L says so.
How Often Should You Clean Draft Beer Lines? The Calendar Is Not the Answer.
The standard is every 14 days. It tells you when to clean, not whether the cleaning worked. Published sampling of retail draft lines found 119 bacterial and 18 fungal species, and the biofilms survived cleaning. What that costs you, and the three questions worth asking instead.
What Is Draft Drift, and Why Does One Location Always Outperform the Others?
Same group, same beer, same equipment, different results. Draft drift is not one bad manager. It is four things missing at once, and your portfolio average is what hides it. The spread between your locations is the signal.