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Good luck. I've seen so many craft beers popping up around here in the Northeast over the past couple of years. I've met so many people that would never touch a
by milge 11y ago
Good luck. I've seen so many craft beers popping up around here in the Northeast over the past couple of years. I've met so many people that would never touch a domestic. Personally, I'll have a craft beer, but I'm not a beer snob about it.
In Philly, there's been a surge of popup beer gardens over the past few years that usually serve craft beers. I'm not sure about other cities, but I do know craft beers are exploding here.
http://www.visitphilly.com/articles/philadelphia/top-10-reasons-philly-loves-pop-up-beer-gardens/ http://www.visitphilly.com/articles/philadelphia/top-10-reas...
- adventured 11y agoThe majors can't stop what's happening, short of a new prohibition to kill all the independents like they did last time.
- vinceguidry 11y agoTheir plan is to buy craft beers as they start getting popular. The idea is not to kill the idea of craft beer, but to use craft breweries as outsourced R&D. They're going to muscle into whatever markets they can. So you might find your beer gardens suddenly getting "sponsored" by Budweiser. The situation reminds me a lot of the current tech climate, where the startup ecosystem serves as outsourced R&D to the big tech companies. Google / Microsoft don't want to kill startups, they want to put them in their place.
- tptacek 11y agoThat's a good thing: it creates exit opportunities for new craft breweries, while also offering serious distribution for good beers that would otherwise be stuck in small geographic regions.
- vinceguidry 11y agoI agree. The scaling of entire industries never looks pretty, but the end result is a better world.
- cpfohl 11y agoLet's use the right terms: Domestics are brewed here, meaning must craft beers available in your country of origin are domestic. Technically Anheuser is a Belgian company... So I'd say bud is an import...
- SFLemonade 11y agoIf we're speaking in technicalities, wouldn't Anheuser be Brazilian (InBev)?
- tptacek 11y agoAmerican Budweiser has never been brewed in Belgium, and didn't begin as Belgian company. I assume you're trying to be funny here; Bud is the archetypical domestic.
- cpfohl 11y agoYes, this is tongue in cheek. I never liked the domestic terminology, though. Craft beers are domestic. They're also owned by people in their country of origin. The joke about bud is that it's primarily owned by foreign corporations. Country of origin tells you nothing about a beer.
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