Tap Truck USA

How Two Friends Started A $30K/Month Business Selling Craft Beer From Vintage Trucks

December 22nd, 2020
Corbin O'Reilly
Founder, Tap Truck USA
$30K
revenue/mo
2
Founders
8
Employees
Tap Truck USA
from San Diego
started October 2016
$30,000
revenue/mo
2
Founders
8
Employees
market size
$8.05T
avg revenue (monthly)
$83.3K
starting costs
$18K
gross margin
88%
time to build
270 days
average product price
$750
growth channels
SEO
business model
content-library
best tools
Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
40 Pros & Cons
tips
3 Tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hi, My name is Corbin with Tap Truck. I co-founded it with my buddy Taylor Steers in August of 2016. It has been a great journey that began here in San Diego. Our initial goal was to service local weddings, corporate events, and private parties, with an occasional festival or two! We quickly learned and tapped beer, wine, and cider to be served from the side of classic trucks. It was a major hit so much so that starting September 2017 we began licensing the brand nationally beginning in Boston, Massachusetts, and San Luis Obispo, California.

Taylor and I have known each other since tee-ball where they grew up in San Luis Obispo together. They even graduated high school together, successfully! Before Tap Truck, Corbin had a history of catering and serving local farmers’ markets with his BBQ company Corbin’s Q.

Each year Tap Truck San Diego sales have essentially doubled. It has been so exciting adding on more and more Tap Trucks so that we could serve 2, then 3, then 4 events on a Saturday! On a branding level, which we refer to as Tap Truck USA, the family or licensee locations began with three (2017), followed by ten(2018), up to the mid-twenties...

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