For bars and breweries
Social media for bars and breweries
If nobody posted the new tap list, a taproom's social media did not happen this week. SpeedRun Social pulls the beers, the events, and the photos already on your website, drafts a caption for each platform with images and a short clip, and parks it all in a queue until you say yes. One campaign a week is free.
Free every week: 3 posts, 1 video, 1 cross-post. No card, no trial clock. Free media carries a small watermark.
What it makes for a bar or taproom
Chicory Bend Coffee
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Chicory Bend Coffee
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Real generator output for Chicory Bend Coffee, a demo brand we built ourselves to show a trade we have no customer in yet.
Why a bar or taproom's social media goes quiet
Not a discipline problem. A time-of-day problem.
- The new release went on tap at four. The regulars found out at the bar, and the post about it goes up the day the keg kicks.
- Trivia, the acoustic set, the food truck, the game: the same calendar every week, written on a chalkboard that nobody outside the room can read.
- The room photographs like a cave. Every pint shot under the bar lights is the same brown glass against the same dark wood.
- The account belongs to whoever is bartending the slow shift, so it sounds like four different people across one season.
What it does for a bar or taproom
Shipped features, described the way they land for your week.
Setup reads the tap list page
Hand SpeedRun your web address and it imports your business details, your colors, the beers and events you list, and the photos on the page. The first drafts already tell the house lager from the seasonal stout and know which night the food truck parks out front.
A campaign every week, on the house
The free plan drafts three image posts, one short video, and one cross-post each week. For a taproom that can be the new tap list, the trivia reminder, the patio in its last hour of sun, a clip of the pour, and a cross-post that carries the food truck schedule to every profile you own.
Captions in your bar's voice, not a brewery template
A dive with a neon sign and a brewery with a tasting-notes board do not caption the same pint. Your brand kit holds the register once, from how you name a beer to whether a caption says hoppy or just cold, and each network gets its own caption instead of one paragraph pasted five ways.
Images built from your own taps and tables
Upload what your phone already holds: the board, the patio, the brewhouse, the bartender mid-pour, your logo. Generated images are composed around those rather than around a stock photo of somebody else's growler wall, and setup can lift whatever is already on your site.
The keg kicks, the post gets pulled
Every draft lands in a queue before it goes anywhere. Fix the beer name, drop the post for a keg that blew on Tuesday, push the band announcement to Thursday, or bin the draft. Clearing the week takes a few minutes in the lull before happy hour.
Where people look for a bar tonight
Connect Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Google Business Profile, and Mailchimp. Instagram carries the pours and the patio, Facebook is where the trivia and live-music crowd still checks the week, and Google Business Profile answers the phone search for a bar open nearby at nine on a Friday.
How to run a bar or brewery's social media week
A taproom's week is a calendar before it is a feed. Four moves, in the order a Monday should make them, every one written on the assumption that the bartender is also the marketer.
What you need
- Next month's event calendar with start times, kept somewhere other than the chalkboard by the door.
- The tap list in a form you can copy: the menu app export, or a straight-on photo of the board taken the morning it changes.
- The food truck rotation, if you run one, because which truck is parked tonight is the most asked question you get.
- A phone, and the one hour a day the room gets real light through the front windows.
- A yes from the trivia host, the band, and any regular whose face goes up on the page.
Post the tap list the morning it changes, not the night it kicks
A new release is news for exactly as long as it is pouring. Shoot the board straight on before doors, name the beer and the style in the caption, and say whether crowlers are going out the door. The post that says sorry, that one blew last night is a post about a beer nobody can buy.
Run every recurring night as a series, not a reminder
Trivia on Tuesday is the same post fifty times a year, so give it the same frame every time: the host, the table that won, the question that stumped the room. Regulars forward a series to the friend who has never been in. A reminder posted at six for a seven o'clock start reaches people already on the couch.
Shoot the room in its last hour of daylight
Bars photograph like caves after dark, and every pint under the bar lights is the same brown glass. The hour before sundown, with the front windows open and the first regulars on stools, is the only light the room gets, so that is when the phone comes out. Patio season adds a second one.
Put the truck and the game on the map listing before the feed
Whether dogs are allowed on the patio, which truck is parked tonight, whether the game is on with sound: nobody scrolls a feed for those. They type them into a map at eight on a Friday and go wherever answers first. Your Google Business Profile takes posts and hours; keep both current and the feed can spend its time selling the room.
Common mistakes
- Reposting the band's flyer as the post. The date is unreadable at thumbnail size, and the flyer sells the band, not the room.
- Announcing trivia at seven for trivia at seven.
- Shooting every pint under the bar lights, which turns a board of twelve beers into twelve photos of the same brown glass.
- Leaving happy hour and the food truck off the map listing, which is where the question was asked in the first place.
- Posting the release the night it kicks, so the caption is an apology.
- Letting the login live on the opening bartender's phone, so the voice changes every time the schedule does.
What the free plan gives a bar or taproom
One campaign a week, generated and scheduled, with no card and no trial clock. Media on the free plan carries a small watermark; paid plans remove it.
- 3 image posts
- 1 short video
- 1 cross-post
- 300 credits a month
Questions bars and breweries ask
What should a bar post besides pictures of beer?
The week. Which night is trivia and who hosts it, which truck is parked out front, whether the game is on with sound, the patio the day it opens, the release going on tap and the one about to kick. A feed of nothing but pints reads as a tap list; the calendar is what a stranger decides on.
Can it run our weekly events?
As posts, yes. You set the angle and the schedule, so a trivia post can sit on Monday in every week's campaign and the band announcement can go up the Thursday before. It does not create event listings, sell tickets, or touch a reservation tool; it drafts, schedules, and publishes the posts, and you approve each one.
The tap list changes twice a week. Can it keep up?
Only as fast as you tell it. SpeedRun Social does not read your menu app, your point of sale, or any beer check-in service, so a new release becomes a post when you upload the board or type the name. The approval queue is where a post for a keg that kicked gets pulled before it publishes.
Does it know the rules about posting alcohol?
No, and it does not pretend to. Each platform sets its own terms for accounts that sell alcohol, and those settings live on your profile, not in our product. What you get from us is the queue: nothing about a drink or a price goes out until you have read it and said so.
What does it cost a bar to get started?
The free plan costs nothing and does not ask for a card. It includes 300 credits a month and one free campaign a week, and media generated on the free plan carries a small watermark. Paid plans add credits and remove the watermark, and you can cancel any time.
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See what it drafts for this week's taps
Connect your website, add a few photos from behind the bar and one from the patio, and read the week before anything posts. The free campaign comes back every week. Your card stays in your pocket.