Owning a Brewery Part 2 of 3 - Kevin Hunter & Jeff O'Brien on TBFS Radio

Hosts Kevin Hunter and Jeff O'Brien discuss the legal aspects and how-to's of owning a brewery. Jeff is an expert on assisting new and current brewers in Minnesota. Kevin and Jeff cover the business law on The Business Forum Show.

A note from Jeff:

Assisting new and existing breweries in their legal needs has become a large part of my law practice in the past five years.  A few years ago, in an effort to educate prospective brewery owners as to the legal issues they would need to address in realizing their dream, I co-authored an article for The Growler entitled “The Ten Legal Steps to Owning a Brewery.”  You can read the article here.

You can call this broadcast on The Business Forum Show with Kevin Hunter the “cliffs notes” version of the article.  We discuss choosing a name, choice of entity, protecting your brewery name – and beer names – through trademark registration, leasing (or purchasing) real estate, raising funds and applying for Federal state and local licenses.