Even on such issue you will be directed by a general conception of the enterprise. Who is your consumer? What level of income does he or she have? And which beer does he or she prefer? Clear understanding of consumers’ demands will help to make out a desirable assortment of beer sales point.

Start your search of suppliers from learning offers. What terms of cooperation do enterprises-producers of beer, dealers and distributors offer?  Take everything into account: from quality and variability of sorts of beer to supply with equipment for casting beer.

There must be minimum 7 sorts of beer (light is offered as well as dark) in the assortment of a beer sales point. It is better to keep drink in kegs. A producer will certainly give instructions about transporting beer kegs correctly; he will also advise the conditions and temperature regime for storing.

Small-budget enterprises should better cooperate with one producer at the beginning, set offered by him equipment and sell beer of one trade mark.

It is more profitable for small stores and stalls to cooperate with dealers. It is more economically for a pub or a restaurant to examine the terms of partnership with the enterprise-producer and get beer directly of it.

 Live” draught beer is popular nowadays. And beer stalls, pubs and mini-bars require not large early stage equity. The main investments at setting up a sales point are:

• rent or buying a building;
• repairs;
• buying products and equipment;
• advertising.

Profitability is about 35-40%. A sales point located in a public place may realize about 300 l of beer per day in summer. In winter volumes decrease to 50-100 l per day. Do not forget, that “live” beer becomes unusable very quickly, so it is kept 5-7 days in open kegs. You should set up a sales point in a public place for the drink to be quickly sold. Seasonal prevalence is peculiar to market of beer. It works actively three-four months a year.

Kegs for beer – are metal capacities of stainless steel, adapted to storing and transporting beer and kvass. The most widespread volume of beer kegs – is 30 and 50 liters. There are also kegs with the volume of 5, 10, 20 and 100 liters.

There are several types of kegs at our market:

1. «Euro» - a not high keg;
2. «Din» - a high keg;
3. «Plus-keg» - a steel package covered with a layer of polyurethane, which serves as a thermos.

Besides, you can see such kegs as  «Finn» і «Eco». They are different because of their construction - polyurethane drums are provided for them. Sizes of kegs for beer differentiate according to their type:  

Volume	DIN (мм)	Plus-keg
50 liters	600 x 381 ?	532 x 408 ?
30 liters	400 x 381 ?	365 x 408 ?

The weight of a keg with the volume of 30 l is 7,2 - 9,4 kg, according to the type. And a keg with a volume of 50 l weighs 11 - 12 kg.

Is it better to buy them or take for rent?

Every entrepreneur makes his choice by himself. Somebody prefers buying kegs for beer and work with his or her own equipment. The price for one keg – is from 2000 hryvnas and more. Somebody wants to save money and buys used kegs for beer by wholesale, moreover there are enough offers. If you constantly work with one producer, it is better to rent kegs of the brewery. Moreover, there are a lot of enterprise, that give kegs for rent for free, if you are a dealer of their production.

Beer supplier – the brewery «Umanpyvo»

«Umanpyvo» - is a reliable partner, which offers not only delicious beer, but also profitable conditions for cooperation. Our dealers get the equipment for casting beer from kegs, and take kegs for rent. Before casting beer into kegs, they are thoroughly washed and sterilized. A new automatic CIP-station is set at the brewery «Umanpyvo» for that purpose, where all equipment is washed. Such approach permits to exclude the appearance of «flakes» and beer souring. Contact us in any convenient way for getting the consultation towards the cooperation. Other specialists will also help you to choose kegs and necessary equipment for casting beer into kegs. Fill in a form and get a commercial offer after the consultation. You are not obliged to anything, but you will know the terms of cooperation with our brewery.

Are you looking for snacks to beer by wholesale? There are 10 important tips The main index of success in agriculture – is fruitfulness of one hectare. As for business, we use here similar indices of «fruitfulness»: profit of investment into advertisement, income from one square meter of a trade hall. But the main index – is «yielding capacity of a client», that is the medium income from one buyer per month, year.

How is it possible to increase «yielding capacity of a client»?

Offer tying products – snacks to beer (by wholesale and by target). Production to beer – is that thing, which allows buyers to leave you more money, to come to you again for making purchases (because it is convenient to buy everything in one place!). It gives the possibility to increase a medium bill in 1,5-2 times! Let’s discuss which snacks to beer the owner of a store should buy by wholesale.

Which snacks to beer are the most popular among beer connoisseurs?

1. Fish to beer has the first place. You can buy smoked fish and stockfish by wholesale – that is the classic snack to beer in Ukraine. Smoked fish to beer is perfectly combined with dark sorts of beer, and stockfish – with beer of light sorts.
2. Dried bread. That is one of the most popular snacks to beer. Some pubs make dried bread according to their own recipes with adding spices and seasonings. You may just buy dried bread to beer by wholesale. That is comfortable, when you start your business and / or plan to sell only ready-made products to beer.
3. Nuts to beer. They traditionally serve pistachios and salty peanuts to beer. And both kinds of nuts taste good with light sorts of beer as well as with dark sorts of beer.
4. Snacks and dried bread to beer. Beer stores buy snacks to beer by wholesale the most often; sometimes they make them by themselves.
5. Chips to beer. It is also popular enough snack, which has demand among beer connoisseurs.
6. Dried squids to beer. They are well sold and stored as well as dried fish to beer. Properly speaking, a lot of stores of “live” beer, when having already developed the assortment of listed above snacks, stop with it. But some stores and pubs go further and offer more exquisite snacks.
7. Onion rings to beer. Fried onion rings to beer – is a rather delicious snack. It is the most comfortable to buy that snack by the wholesale, but you may do it autonomously, if there is a kitchen in your pub.
8. Pig’s ears to beer. When it is a classic variant they are served pickled or smoked to beer. You can also offer fried pig’s ears to beer.
9. Mussels to beer. The existence of such snacks will make your menu different and draw attention of new clients.
10. Cheese straws, stick-like biscuits, seeds and other home snacks to beer – this list may be continued.

Choose the assortment of snacks to beer, considering the amount of beer sorts in you sorts, and considering the demand.

«Umanpyvo» invites wholesale clients to cooperation

Fill in a form and get a commercial offer after the consultation. You are not obliged to anything, but you will know the terms of cooperation with our brewery.  

Do you want to set up your own sales point of draught beer? Do you want to entertain your visitors to natural “live” beer and tasty snacks? Or do you strive for offering the menu of full value of hot starters and main courses, salads and deserts to beer to your guests? Plan is necessary for realizing your dream in any way. A business plan — is the first official document of your own. It will help you to cope with more than ten tasks on the way of your successful business-start, namely :

• to calculate starting capital;
• to understand expenses and to calculate profits;
• to draw up a block of documents for registering a beer sales point, setting it into exploitation, selling a foamy drink and adjusted products by target.
• to determine the strategy of development and methods of attracting clients and stimulating trade.
• to determine the complete set of equipment, assortment of food, suppliers, workers etc.

It is important to know exactly, how many beer glasses for 12 tables of a pub are necessary; to decide whether two kegs are enough for a day for a beer pavilionAnd it is also necessary to find a reliable supplier of “live” beer.

The first task – is to make up a business plan competently for setting up a beer sales point

The main question: how to register it? How to determine the strategy of development and marketing policy? How to calculate expenses and future profit? What should be included into the budget? There are many questions. We offer you to find answers and prompts in manuals on setting up a beer sales point in terms of legislation of Ukraine.

Start your business with a reliable partner – the brewery “Umanpyvo”.