re: Financial Stability of Breweries in This State

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There are only so many taps and the few places that try to push good beer.

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Maybe the answer is more taps and more beer. How difficult is it for a restaurant to get a great local beer in LA, other than Envie? There is a limited amount of really good local beer available to restaurants because the really good beer is bought up so quickly.

Are there restaurants that you would go to more often if only they had a better beer selection? Something besides Blue Moon and Corona? If there were more great local brews that were available to more local restaurants, I would bet that demand would go up. I think you might be on to something as far as oversaturation goes when you can go into a local restaurant and you can find Envie, GiTM, Jucifer, a NOLA Funk Series, Reasonably Corrupt, G&G, etc, on tap instead of 5 varieties of Abita. This is in the regular restaurants, not the more beer-centric places like Chimes.

My experience is that a lot of people drink local for their "go to" beer, and dabble in the non-local stuff for a change of pace.