re: Financial Stability of Breweries in This State

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How are all of these places going to stay open? There are only so many taps and the few places that try to push good beer.

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I have been thinking about that, as well. I just posted a thread where a well respected brewery (The Commons) is going out of business here in Portland. I think they specialized too much in beer styles that aren't the most popular, but they made good beers. Real good beers. There are probably 50 breweries in Portland that I would have closed before I would have closed The Commons. However, the end result is that they got replaced by something that is arguably better, and will sell more beer (Modern Times). At the same time, a lot of shitty breweries are remaining open in Portland. Why couldn't Modern Times have come in and replaced Rock Bottom or Old Town Brewing?

Most breweries are neighborhood breweries. I haven't been to Courtyard Brewing, but it sounds like the same concept. You can make money by just being a local business. If you're really good, you'll expand. If not, you can still make business as a local brewpub. I don't think you should get hung up on the number of breweries in the state.

I would bet that Louisiana breweries would explode if the laws were relaxed allowing breweries more leeway in selling beer on premise AND selling to local taprooms, restaurants, and bottle shops.

What does surprise me is that there are not more brewpubs serving food in Louisiana. My wife doesn't drink beer, but she loves going to breweries with me because the food is really good at most of them. I can't think of a better combination than beer and cajun food for the brewpub concept.