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From liquor stores to beer bars, San Jose to Wichita to the East Village of Manhattan, here are the 10 most popular businesses on BeerMenus in 2017. Enjoy!

Digital beer boards are attention-grabbing, easy to read, easy to update, and always display your accurate drink menu. This makes the ordering process more efficient, leading to a significant increase in beverage sales.

But how difficult is it to make the switch to digital?

The answer: It's not difficult at all—it's simple! Read on to see just how easy it is to get your own digital beer board up and running at your business.

Want to skip the read and talk to a Beer Board expert instead?

Schedule a free Digital Beer Board Consultation. We'll discuss how the beer board works and walk through the setup process.

This article will outline

Offering an organized, easy-to-read print beer menu is a great way to provide customers a quality beer drinking experience—it makes choosing beers easier, meaning your customers will spend time drinking beer instead of struggling to decide which to order.

_{Example print menu—see more examples below.}

Jump Start—I'm ready to make my menu now!

Beer Information

Print menus from BeerMenus automatically fill in all the necessary info about each of your beers, including:

Customizations

We know your menus are your menus, so there is a ton of flexibility built into the print menus. Customizations include:

Below you'll find step-by-step setup instructions as well as a few example menus.

Want us to take care of setup and design?

Schedule a print menu consultation. We'll walk through what you're looking for and have you printing the same day.

Big news! On Monday, August 14, we launched Custom Menu Sections. They're a huge step forward in providing you the flexibility you need to create the menu you want.

Every spring we like to take a look back at the previous year.

I'll be the first to admit, part of this process is self reflective/indulgent:

Were our collaboration beers this past year better than the year prior?

But, rest assured, we also ask—and answer—other questions.

Namely: how many people used BeerMenus in the last year? How many times? For what?

We want to make these stats available to the great businesses who use BeerMenus. By doing so, you'll be able to see and feel the effect of the BeerMenus community, and also understand the integral role you play in that community.

With that goal in mind, we put together the slides below.

A scaled down (5.1%) tropical pale ale brewed with opinions and aptness, Integrity is Rare is the perfect summer crusher. Follow it here to get notified when it arrives at a bar near you.

Some folks think beer is like a can of soup—you can leave it on the shelf until you're ready to drink it.

But the vast majority of beer is more like a loaf of bread—it tastes best fresh from the oven, but eventually gets stale and moldy. Local beer is on the up-and-up because it's got that “fresh-from-the-oven” taste, and drinkers love that quality. When a casual drinker has a supreme drinking experience trying a local beer, they'll immediately taste the difference—and never go back to their old macro standby.

We're not saying that you should immediately replace every brew on your tap list with a local one, but local beers are worth experimenting with because they have the opportunity to be fresher and thus better. Here's the science behind why it's worth it to serve local beers.

We recently sat down with Brittany Saxton, owner and GM at Bellefontaine, Ohio's Six Hundred Downtown. We talked about the local beer scene, how a world-class pizza place embraces craft beer, and how printed beer menus increased 600 Downtown's average bill size by $12.

_{Saxton at Six Hundred Downtown.}

We recently sat down with Travis Koester, owner of The Local Tap House of Nyack. We talked about life in the bar industry, his beer program, and his Digital Beer Board.

_{A screen grab of the Digital Beer Board BeerMenus Customer Success created, based on Koester's customization wishes.}

Travis Koester, owner of the Local Tap House of Nyack, has worked in the bar industry for 10 years.

So when it finally came time for him to open a bar of his own a couple years ago, he already had a vision for it.

Update: on March 24th, the Brewer's Association released the guidance necessary to calculate beer calorie content. As a result, (and as you can read in our latest blog post here), we've successfully built our Calorie Content Generator.

We've recently gotten a number of questions about what the FDA's new requirements on alcohol-related calorie and nutrient information mean for beer retailers. We dug into the FDA's extremely riveting (kidding, obviously) official sources and pulled out the most relevant information.

In short: if the rules apply to you, we've got you covered. We can now display the necessary calorie information, making sure your mainstay beers comply with the new rules. If you have any questions, drop us a line at 347-927-1574 or support@beermenus.com.