re: Baton Rouge Market for a Craft Brewery

Yeah, i believe there is plenty of room to grow in Baton Rouge. Especially if you brew good beer. Tin Roof isn't good in my opinion. They succeed in being the 1st in Baton Rouge, canning their beers, having some decent starting capital, and marketing their beers fairly well. I really wish they would just brew a good beer. Last time i bought tin roof from a grocery store has been at least a year ago. Smiling Ivan last year was teh last beer i bought, and it wasn't bad. But they just need a consistently well done regular offering.

Southern craft could get the ball rolling on good beer in BR. As others said, they are very new, and just getting started so expect growing pains. I still haven't had any, but i'm looking to try some when i can.

Louisiana in general is a ripe market to expand local craft beer. Our regulations are a killer on small start up breweries, though. But once you get past that, you are golden. I think of it this way, every bud/miller/coors drinker is a potential craft beer drinker, they just don't know it yet.