Pushing It To See Its Potential with Davin and Kellan Bartosch

My guests this week are Wiseacre Brewery Founders Davin and Kellan Bartosch.  Davin and Kellan launched Wiseacre in 2013 and it has been a huge success. They quit their jobs, found a partner, took out personal loans and have built one of the most well known craft breweries in the Southeast. After one year of opening, their Tiny Bomb beer won the Bronze Medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2014. I wanted to have a conversation with Davin and Kellan to learn how they have generated such momentum in a crowded craft beer market. This conversation doesn’t disappoint. We cover: Going all in at the beginning Building Wiseacre their way Living with challenges and ambiguity Their plans for growth And more! Please enjoy my conversation with Davin and Kellan Bartosch!     RECAP  45 secs Beer critics 2:00 You can’t please everyone 3:15 Taking things personally 4:09 Where it started 6:34 The PitBull Named Carlito 10:15 When Tiny Bomb Hit It Big 12:35 Why Memphis Water Matters 14:33 Something Always Goes Wrong 15:02 Founding Brewmaster loves lager and that drives it 15:38 Leveraging their relationship 18:31 Passion can lead to bad decisions 21:37 How to grow a craft brewery  22:18 Doing the job I did before except doing it for myself 22:22 Quantifiable goals and how to measure them 24:13 The power of design 24:50 We both took out two loans each 25:38 Good debt and forecasting money 28:55 Our experience and our instincts got us through 30:18 Telling stories 32:00 I’m better at working by myself than with other people 33:25 Now we’re just reacting  34:05 Cast the vision and what do we need to change to become that vision 35:03 Get going in direction and others execute 37:45 I’m more focused than I was at the beginning 41:00 We’re in a crunch right now 45:07 We have to be okay with grey area 58:00 Natural Progression 59:03 Our identity is Memphis 1:01:01 Approach things with a sense of humor 1:03:10 Be willing to put your time in 1:04:10 Lessons learned from upbringing     RESOURCES Matt Haaga State Farm: https://www.matthaaga.com/ AB Jets: https://abjets.com/ Wiseacre Brew: https://wiseacrebrew.com/ http://rachelbriggs.com/