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re: Baton Rouge Market for a Craft Brewery
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:00 am to kingbob
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:00 am to kingbob
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.
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.
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Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:02 am to BugAC
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Louisiana in general is a ripe market to expand local craft beer.
I 100% agree. If I knew the first thing about starting a brewery, I'd move back to LA and find investors ASAP.
There are so many great breweries up where I live - and what's cool is that they never seem to be in competition with one another. They all just focus on making really solid brews, and people become customers of all of them. I've definitely been known to go to 3 or 4 breweries on a nice Saturday afternoon.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:03 am to BugAC
It's crazy that with BR's metro population there are only two craft breweries. Hell, there are three alone around Lafayette with a much smaller population and a bunch on the Northshore.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:32 am to BugAC
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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.
Not only that, but the politicians enforcing them. Two Mayor/president candidates both have had a hand in stifiling the industry. Smokey on the alcohol board typically tries to hassle new-comers to the overpass area to keep them from competing with his bar, George's. Delgado, who took Smokey's seat on the metro council, uses his influence to stifle competition downtown as he owns at least a partial stake in most of the 3rd street bars (Huey's, City Bar, Club 19whatever, ect) as well as the Brickyard South.
I have heard from several people who have tried to open up music venues, restaurants, or bars all having trouble with permits being held up by these two characters.
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