u/mrdonbrown

Thanks to all your comments to my post introducing my purchase of Gravity Brewing, as it got the attention of the reporter Julia King from the Daily Camera and made the front page!

I would say go buy a copy, but I already went to the neighboring 7-11s and bought them all :) Big thanks to Julia, who is clearly a Redditor, for making the process painless, writing a fun article, and including my favorite quote of the article from Scott, our Brewmaster, "I don't want to make junk" lol

The online version: https://www.dailycamera.com/2026/08/12/gravity-brewing-louisville-new-owners/

Well, Matt and I wrapped up our first month owning Gravity and boy, what a ride. More on that in a minute. To celebrate, we are having a low-key Re-Launch party this Saturday from 12-6 PM and would love more redditors :)

It doesn't stop here, of course, we have:

• Aug 4, 5-8 PM - Book signing for "Practice Makes Culture" with author Ronica Roth
• Aug 5, 6:30-8 PM - Geeks Who Drink Trivia, free to play, lots of prizes, ton of fun
• Aug 6, 5-7 PM - Pints in the Park promo night with the Louisville Chamber ping-pong game. Win tickets to Pints in the Park!
• Aug 7, 6-9 PM - Bike Night with all two wheels welcome - motorcycle, e-bike, human-powered style. Park here, show off your wheels, swing by the Street Faire or hang with us
• Aug 8, 12-6 PM - Aforementioned Re-Launch Party featuring a ribbon cutting complete with oversized scissors that actually cut!

... and that's just this week! Other events I'm contemplating are Magic the Gathering night, board game night, dart league, vinyl party, mobile Sauna/cold soak, more Dungeons and Dragons nights (next one is Aug 25), and who knows what else. I'd love to hear from you - what would be interesting?

Event calendar - https://thegravitybrewing.com/events/

Just because I don't believe in promoting only, for the curious, here are a few lessons I learned this month owning a brewery:

1. Systems, systems, systems. It is one thing to do something like clean a space once, but immediately the next questions you should ask yourself is, "How does this get done the next time?" and "How does this survive without me?"
2. I really bought three businesses in one - manufacturing, wholesaling, and retail. Each have their own quirks, metrics, processes, and next actions. While there is tremendous value in owning the vertical, you still need to understand each layer.
3. You really are doing all sorts of jobs that you wouldn't hire even yourself for. Ideally, I'd have a full time marketing person, a full time CFO, full time tap room manager, etc, but being a small business, sometimes you just have to be humble, do your best, and make it work. Trust in the value of layer integration, e.g. realize x sells in the tap room, talk to a few restaurants to test, work with the brewer the next day.
4. How satisfying is it to hear a full taproom full of laughter and joy. A few weeks ago now we had our first Battles and Brews, a dungeons and dragons group in here and listening to 30+ folks over 6 tables go on virtual adventures, celebrate victories and meet new friends was immensely satisfying to me as a software guy who's previous idea of observing customer interaction was watching server logs :)