Big Alice: A New Nano Model?

August 30, 2013 Dear Client: How about a new model for nanos? Long Island City's Big Alice Brewing is taking the Community Supported Agriculture model (CSA), where members typically pay upfront for a season's worth of produce, to craft beer. Co-founder Kyle Hurst explains that like a CSA, it helps to get the operating money up front for a such a capital-intensive business. "It allows us to pay rent, buy our ingredients, source our ingredients," said Kyle, much of which