Your Beer of Choice? (21 Viewers)

[k9dr]

 

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[bsdunbar1]

 

[CdnBeerLover]

Not a bad choice at all.

 

[k9dr]

 

[bsdunbar1]

 

[Saoliver]

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That’s not Guinness!

 

[bsdunbar1]

That’s not Guinness!

You know as crazy as it is, all the science behind the design of a Guinness glass is for real. It is the most comfortable glass to hold and to drink out of.

 

[NVFlip]

I love me some sours from Wild Barrel, a local brewery. This stuff shouldn't be classified as beer though. It's so juicy and semi sweet. Delicious. I'm not an IPA drinker but this is as close as I'll get to one in The Bruery's Mischief.

 

[Saoliver]

 

[k9dr]

Current selections

 

[slisk250]

Treehouse Human Condition. Milk Stout made with chocolate, caramel, and coconut 7.9%

 

[k9dr]

A few more local brews

 

[bsdunbar1]

A few more local brews

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Any you would drink again?

 

[Manjankins]

Space Dust

 

[k9dr]

Any you would drink again?

I wouldn’t go out of my way to get any of them, but when it’s hot and they are all that is available, I would drink them again. They all taste pretty much the same.

 

[k9dr]

This one was pretty good

 

[k9dr]

 

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[k9dr]

 

[Taghkanic]

The small town nearest to me (pop. 6,000) now has *four* brewpubs which all make their own beers.

Just outside of town, there are two more breweries.

The surrounding county and all the other neighboring (and sparsely-populated) counties also have multiple local breweries. Meanwhile, most other bars and beer stores still carry lots of national brands.

So my questions are:

1) Who is drinking all this beer?

2) Can they all possibly survive?

I drink beer. Plenty. But I’d need a small army of beer-drinkers to keep these all afloat.

They could rely on wider distribution… But everywhere else I go, they have their own local breweries, with attached pubs.

Meanwhile weed dispensaries are also proliferating like crazy, and I feel like those cut into the beer/liquor demand.

IDGI. Feels like we’ll have a shakeout in the coming years and some of these will fail.

 

[k9dr]

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

The small town nearest to me (pop. 6,000) now has *four* brewpubs which all make their own beers.

Just outside of town, there are two more breweries.

The surrounding county and all the other neighboring (and sparsely-populated) counties also have multiple local breweries. Meanwhile, most other bars and beer stores still carry lots of national brands.

So my questions are:

1) Who is drinking all this beer?

2) Can they all possibly survive?

I drink beer. Plenty. But I’d need a small army of beer-drinkers to keep these all afloat.

They could rely on wider distribution… But everywhere else I go, they have their own local breweries, with attached pubs.

Meanwhile weed dispensaries are also proliferating like crazy, and I feel like those cut into the beer/liquor demand.

IDGI. Feels like we’ll have a shakeout in the coming years and some of these will fail.

I can't answer question #1, but for number 2, I would say it depends on what the owners need to survive. I'm a home brewer who once considered starting a small brew pub after I retired. My plan was to purchase an acreage where my wife and I would live out our golden years, put up a small steel building close to the road, but not too close to our home, and brew and sell beer. In this situation, I would not need to make a lot of money in order to continue, as I would own the property and the equipment. And I'd be doing something (brewing beer) that I would be doing anyway as a hobby, just on a little larger scale.

So if any of these micro breweries are more of a hobby than a business, then they can probably survive until the owner gets tired of brewing weekly and dealing with customers. But if they are younger owners who need to profit $100K per year or more to be successful, then no, they won't all survive. Not in a market as small as what you've described.

 

[Taghkanic]

I can't answer question #1, but for number 2, I would say it depends on what the owners need to survive. I'm a home brewer who once considered starting a small brew pub after I retired. My plan was to purchase an acreage where my wife and I would live out our golden years, put up a small steel building close to the road, but not too close to our home, and brew and sell beer. In this situation, I would not need to make a lot of money in order to continue, as I would own the property and the equipment. And I'd be doing something (brewing beer) that I would be doing anyway as a hobby, just on a little larger scale.

So if any of these micro breweries are more of a hobby than a business, then they can probably survive until the owner gets tired of brewing weekly and dealing with customers. But if they are younger owners who need to profit $100K per year or more to be successful, then no, they won't all survive. Not in a market as small as what you've described.

These are pretty elaborate operations, churning out a shit ton of beer, often 6-10 varieties each… Definitely not homebrew (which I might prefer.)

 

[CdnBeerLover]

I have to say, I'm a bit jealous of you folks near Windsor. I really wish Chapter Two was closer, as I really like this mild. I definitely have to time a visit to the in-laws when they have their best bitter on tap.