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Texas Big Beer Brewery having issues?

Discussion in 'US: Southwest' started by aschwab, Mar 18, 2014.

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  1. aschwab

    aschwab Initiate (0) Mar 3, 2009 Texas

    https://www.facebook.com/texasbigbeerbrewery/posts/718714634839924

    "Please pray for us, the comptroller said we owe $1,000 fine because we filled a report late and they will not drop it. It was just a report of sales, we paid all our taxes on time. After we had to pay $4820 in January for our State licensing which left is broke, this will break our backs! I called my State Rep James Whites' office and asked them to please help us. Please pay they can. If not we may just go under because of a clerical error of filling a report late. What ever you do, do not start a brewery and I am serious!"
     
    #1 aschwab, Mar 18, 2014
  2. jacobbocce72

    jacobbocce72 Initiate (0) Dec 18, 2011 Texas

    Not that $1,000 is anything to sneeze at, but seriously...? They can't swing $1,000? Like someone on the post said, if you don't have that much extra money for stuff like this, you maybe shouldn't be running a brewery.
     
    #2 jacobbocce72, Mar 18, 2014
  3. aschwab

    aschwab Initiate (0) Mar 3, 2009 Texas

    If you shut down over $1k, that is just bad. You find a way to get that money. I assume you have a lot more invested in it and if you can't manage $1k? Just my thoughts. And he said in other posts that they were making money normally. Based on that, you would think that you are investing 1k more into a not-sinking ship. Who knows.
     
    #3 aschwab, Mar 18, 2014
  4. turfy

    turfy Pooh-Bah (1,750) Mar 17, 2010 Texas
    Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    see "Darwinism"....
     
    #4 turfy, Mar 18, 2014
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  5. TexasBeerGuy

    TexasBeerGuy Initiate (0) Apr 30, 2013 Texas

    I agree. That's an amount that's reasonable enough to make it happen. Sell something, get a small loan, whatever it takes. From personal experience if you want something bad enough, you can make a lot happen.
     
    #5 TexasBeerGuy, Mar 18, 2014
  6. greenspointexas

    greenspointexas Pooh-Bah (2,063) Jan 16, 2011 Texas
    Pooh-Bah

    So we aren't gonna see the next Queens Limited Release Dry Irish Stout?
     
    #6 greenspointexas, Mar 18, 2014
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  7. starkmarvelo

    starkmarvelo Initiate (0) Jan 20, 2010 Texas

    Tough crowd.
     
    #7 starkmarvelo, Mar 18, 2014
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  8. mattisloco

    mattisloco Maven (1,306) Feb 13, 2007 Texas
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    I like them and I like their beer, some of it. They just bought a lot of new toys for their brewery, so the timing is piss poor. I agree it's just $1000 and they should be able to raise that, they have a nice sized local following down there.

    Bag on them all you want if it makes you feel better.
     
    #8 mattisloco, Mar 18, 2014
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  9. TexasBeerGuy

    TexasBeerGuy Initiate (0) Apr 30, 2013 Texas

    To be honest, I think they're great people (from my brief interaction with them). That said, I think they can make it happen if they want, and I hope they do. If a business fails, it fails, but I hate to see someone go down for a grand.
     
    #9 TexasBeerGuy, Mar 18, 2014
  10. aschwab

    aschwab Initiate (0) Mar 3, 2009 Texas

    Honestly..stick $1k on a credit card. If they are making money, you can pay it back the following month.
     
    #10 aschwab, Mar 18, 2014
  11. blastoderm55

    blastoderm55 Pundit (867) Jun 7, 2013 Texas

    I think it's unprofessional to post about this on social media. This is the sort of things you handle with the folks in finance and resolve quietly.
     
    #11 blastoderm55, Mar 18, 2014
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  12. mattchow

    mattchow Savant (1,009) Jun 24, 2012 Texas

    but they want to seem like the little guy, we should always support the little guy right?
     
    #12 mattchow, Mar 18, 2014
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  13. aschwab

    aschwab Initiate (0) Mar 3, 2009 Texas

    I assume you are hoarding their bottles as well? Most people want the limited release stuff and they clearly are the small time brewery.
     
    #13 aschwab, Mar 18, 2014
  14. nathanmiller

    nathanmiller Initiate (0) Oct 7, 2009 New York

    #prayforTBB
     
    #14 nathanmiller, Mar 18, 2014
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  15. kmello69

    kmello69 Initiate (0) Nov 27, 2011 Texas

    Lots of businesses fail. No one wishes it on them, but its a reality. I saw their Fb post and my first thought was "don't they have a business plan?" They blame licensing costs, etc., but a good business plan would have factored those known costs in, as well as making sure there were some backup funds for unexpected costs.

    Hopefully they get this figured out, and they learn to actually submit their paperwork on time (which would have avoided this whole issue in the first place) but they really need to sit down with a financial person and get their house in order or the next unexpected cost will sink them if this one doesn't.
     
    #15 kmello69, Mar 18, 2014
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  16. King_Ranch

    King_Ranch Initiate (0) Feb 19, 2014 Texas

    Wondering if I should make the trip there sooner than later...
     
    #16 King_Ranch, Mar 18, 2014
  17. TexasStout

    TexasStout Initiate (0) Jun 22, 2007 Texas

    That is essentially what I replied to their Facebook post.
     
    #17 TexasStout, Mar 18, 2014
  18. reverseapachemaster

    reverseapachemaster Zealot (722) Sep 21, 2012 Texas

    I still cannot figure out WTF "Please pay they can" means. That sounds like something written by one of those Nigerian princes who always need my help.
     
    #18 reverseapachemaster, Mar 18, 2014
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  19. Looter

    Looter Initiate (0) Mar 5, 2014 Texas

    It should read " Please pray they can" I believe
     
    #19 Looter, Mar 18, 2014
  20. Jack_Around

    Jack_Around Devotee (365) Aug 2, 2013 Texas

    I think that's meant to be "please pray they can [help]," they referring to the state rep's office.
     
    #20 Jack_Around, Mar 18, 2014
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