Printed bags for San Diego's brewery kitchens. Your name, not just the beer's.

The kitchen behind the tap list

San Diego is one of the best known craft beer towns in the country. There are taprooms in Miramar, North Park, Barrio Logan, Vista, Escondido, Ocean Beach and just about every business park in between. A lot of them do not run a kitchen of their own. They partner with a food truck parked out front, a pop-up that rotates weekly, or a kitchen built into the back of the space and run by a separate business.

If that is you, you know the problem. People remember the beer. They post the flight. They tag the brewery. The smash burger, the birria or the wood fired pizza that kept them there for three more rounds often goes uncredited.

Most taproom food walks out the door

Taproom food has a habit of leaving. Somebody orders too many wings, a table splits a pizza and boxes half, a parent grabs tacos for the kids waiting at home, or a group takes food to go on the way out to a game. Each of those orders leaves in a bag and ends up on a kitchen counter somewhere across the county.

That bag is the only thing with your name on it that goes home with them. A blank sack throws that moment away. A printed one sits on the counter the next morning and reminds them where the food came from.

One box at a time, no storage room needed

Brewery kitchens and trucks are tight on space. There is no back room for a pallet of bags. You can start with the Kraft Discovery Box, 50 bags with your logo for $28, then move to a full box: 120 bags for $94 as a one time order, or 150 for $85 on a subscription. Shipping is free and takes 3 to 4 days.

We go deeper on starting small on the low minimum page.

Built for wings, pizza boxes and crowlers

Taproom food is heavy and messy: wings in a box with ranch cups, a tray of loaded fries, a burger and onion rings, maybe a sealed can of beer that the brewery sold to go. Our bag holds 22 lb by flat paper handles taped inside, with a flat 12″ by 7″ bottom.

Put boxes flat on the bottom, keep sauces upright in the 3.5″ side gussets, and set anything cold standing in a corner. Fold the top and close it with one of the food tamper-evident stickers in every box.

A logo that works next to the brewery's

Your bag is your brand, not the brewery's, but many partners like to give a nod to the taproom they cook at. Keep your own logo big across the front, up to 12 × 14 in. If you add a small line like your home taproom's neighborhood, keep it short and get the brewery's okay first.

Dark inks look best on brown kraft. Bright brewery style colors like orange or teal stand out on the white bag. Read more on our printed kraft bags in San Diego home page, or see how food trucks use them on the food truck bags page.