CRD

Hi I'm Aron, My friend and I have a dream to start a, you guessed it, craft distillery. Like so many others, we are in the business planning phase right now and have been in contact with some potential consultants (although I fear they may be too expensive). We are also starting some hands on training at a local distillery to get the experience side of things going (how I wish you could home distill!) and our local community has a grant/economic development program that mentors potential start ups with highly successful business folks in the community so right now we are working with a partner of a marketing firm which has been extremely insightful. We don't plan on quitting our day jobs until we absolutely can afford to (we are both in the First Responder Community) and I think if we could find a model that could pay us both $60k a year we would be ecstatic. I do have one question (the first of many I'm sure) for you folks who have done this for any period of time. How much capital we can raise will obviously determine how our dream looks when we are starting out. If we go the shoe string budget route and we are able to find extremely affordable rent which we could support from our existing day job salaries, and had minimal upfront investment to purchase/lease equipment and other start up costs. What do you all think about just distilling on nights, weekends, and days off? Is that a model where we could get some traction? Thank you all for your time and responses. Aron