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Not passing judgement on the quality of Anchor Steam. But the OP is absolutely right - there are now good to great breweries pretty much everywhere in the US.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Not passing judgement on the quality of Anchor Steam.
But the OP is absolutely right - there are now good to great breweries pretty much everywhere in the US. It’s hard to be a national beer company if you aren’t humongous.
People aren’t even looking at your stuff. The beer section at the gas station near my house is 50% local and 50% watery stuff. I have no idea if they carry Anchor Steam or not because I don’t look in that section and haven’t for years.
Note that some breweries, like Lagunitas, have effectively become local in multiple places by opening breweries in other states far away.
- eyelidlessness 3y agoYeah I do agree that being a national craft brewery is tough, and I don’t begrudge Anchor leaving the national market. I don’t even begrudge Elysian entering it by selling to AB (though lots of folks here do). My disagreement is only with “no reason” to buy Anchor. There’s a glut of high quality beer on the market, but very little of it is a reasonable substitute for what Anchor brews, and I have gone out of my way when it might be stocked, even though I know that I’m an outlier in even my own competitive local market.