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One of the key marketing advantages you have as a craft brewer is your genuine passion about your beer and your company. Thats right, digital marketing agency havas helia has created 0101, a beer that. With the beer industry experiencing something of a craft beer. Marketing for craft beer is about much more than a newsletter worth of tap listings and happy hour specials. Schlafly patrons can download the new schlafly mobile app, which interacts with exclusive onpremise beacon technology, to receive notifications about drink specials, tasting notes, new beer releases and more when it matters most when they are about to order a beer. Ales, or ipas, which constitute a large share of the craftbeer market.
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