Reddit reviews So You Want to Start a Brewery?: The Lagunitas Story

Another interesting anecdote from that story, if your read so you want to start a brewery by Tony Magee, the founder of Lagunitas, he goes on to explain that they basically let him pick the days they would be shut down in relation to the pot thing. So they chose the 30 days or so when they were installing a new packaging line.

Tony then left the meeting, got into his car, smoked a joint in the parking lot, took a nap, then drove back to Petaluma.

I had this confirmed to me by a relative of Tony's when I was at the Chicago brewery on business.

The book is a great read, even if you are not looking to start a brewery at all. Great read into the beer biz and entrepreneurship.

This is my full list of books from /r/homebrewing but it includes pro level books:

New Brewers:

• How to Brew - John Palmer
  
• Brewing classic styles- Jamil Zainasheff
  
• Designing Great Beers - Ray Daniels
  
• The Complete Joy of Homebrewing - Charlie Papazian
  
  Continued Learning:
  
  
• Water - Palmer and Kaminsky
  
• Yeast - Zainicheff and White
  
• Malt - Mallet
  
• Hops - Hieronymous
  
• Experimental Brewing - Drew Beechum and Denny Conn
  
• Radical Brewing - Randy Mosher
  
• Brewing Better Beer - Gordon Strong
  
  Specialty/Advanced/Other:
  
  
• American Sour Beers - Michael Tonsmeire (/u/oldsock)
  
• Brewing with Wheat - Stan Hieronymus
  
• IPA: Brewing Techniques - Mitch Steele
  
• Farmhouse Ales - Phil Markowski
  
• Brew Like a Monk - Stan Hieronymus
  
• New Brewing Lager Beers - Gregory J. Noonan
  
• Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers- Stephen Harrod Buhner
  
• Drink: a cultural history of alcohol - Iain gately
  
• Principals of Brewing Science - George Fix
  
  Business Books:
  
  
• Brewing Up a Business - Sam Calagione
  
• Brewers association Guide to Starting Your Own Brewery - Cantwell, among others
  
• SO you want to start a brewery - Tony magee
  
• Beyond the Pale: The Story of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co - Ken Grossman
  
• Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery Paperback –Steve Hindy & Tom Potter
  
  Technical Readings (Textbooks might be expensive):
  
  
• Brewery Operations Manual - Tom Hennessy
  
• Beer Packaging - Master Brewers Association
  
• Technology Brewing and Malting - W. Kunze, 5th Edition
  
• Malting and Brewing Science, Volume 1 - Many Authors
  
• Malting and Brewing Science, Volume 2 - Many Authors
  
• Brewing yeast and fermentation - Boulton and Quain

Love the story behind this beer.

The FBI tried to get employees at the brewery to sell them weed for weeks but they kept on sharing it for free.

Finally the FBI shut them down for allowing smoking of weed on the brewery grounds. Only shut for a little while and when reopened continued to smoke, just off the property.

https://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Start-Brewery-Lagunitas/dp/1556525621

Yes. There's a great book you should read if you're interested in this subject. So You Want to Start a Brewery?: The Lagunitas Story https://www.amazon.com/dp/1556525621/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_SeLVBbAVPR13R