‘Battle wounds’ help Stroh keep Post Brewing healthy

BOULDER — Businesses typically hire a consultant to teach them what to do. For Big Red F Restaurant Group founder Dave Query, hiring Greg Stroh as a consultant for his Post Brewing Co. was almost as much about learning what not to do.

“What I tell people is not to grow too fast,” said Stroh, who represents the fifth generation of the dynasty that founded the Stroh Brewery Co. in Detroit in 1850. “My family had a strong regional brewery, but then, within one year, they bought Schlitz and used that infrastructure to take Stroh’s national.…