Higherground Founder Writes Book on Starting a Brewery

Higherground Brewing co-founder, Jasper Miller, displays yet another talent, this time as entrepreneurial writer of his new ebook, How to Start a Small-Scale Microbrewery: A Primer, released this March on Amazon.

“This book will show someone how to open a brewery for less than $200k,” says Miller, who opened Higherground Brewing with his partner, Fenn Nelson, in 2011 for just under that.

“But this isn’t a Higherground story,” explains Miller. “I read through some of the other ‘How to Start a Brewery’ books out there and most of them are just stories about opening their own brewery. I mention Higherground maybe a couple of times total. I want this book to be a real guide, from how to fill out permits to getting equipment, and factoring in building costs.”

Miller also wanted the book to be affordable, citing that some of the other well-known books on the subject (and there aren’t many to begin with) are in the $40-50 range.

Miller himself was a homebrewer-turned-pro, and at the time of openi







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