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The future is smaller neighborhood breweries that do light distribution or none at all plus the regional giants like a Parish, Gnarley Barley, etc

This is where its going. My favorite brewery is Fischer Brewery in Salt Lake City, UT. They have no distribution. None. It is a local watering hole that happens to make their own water. It was packed every night we went. The owner wanted it to be exactly what it is: a community gathering place (an American beer garden). They had an outdoor meeting space that was free to any group needing the space. Taps always rotated, but they had one or two anchor brews.

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Posted by Pettifogger

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Posted on 5/16/19 at 10:00 am to Aubie Spr96

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This is where its going. My favorite brewery is Fischer Brewery in Salt Lake City, UT. They have no distribution. None. It is a local watering hole that happens to make their own water. It was packed every night we went. The owner wanted it to be exactly what it is: a community gathering place (an American beer garden). They had an outdoor meeting space that was free to any group needing the space. Taps always rotated, but they had one or two anchor brews.

This is what we've been saying for a couple of years. The market for breweries to explode on the scene and make tons of money is dwindling, I suspect. But the market for American beer garden/pub concepts is steady. It helps that there are so many of these in places where everyday bars and pubs were not a historic mainstay in a community (southeast, Texas, west).

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Posted by Jax-Tiger

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Posted on 5/16/19 at 6:19 pm to Aubie Spr96

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My favorite brewery is Fischer Brewery in Salt Lake City, UT. They have no distribution. None. It is a local watering hole that happens to make their own water.

It's so easy to can these days, but there are some really successful breweries out here that don't package their beer, but distribute kegs (Boneyard, Barley Brown's). There are also some that don't regularly distribute, but do can beers for takeout (Great Notion, McMenamin's).

I think both of those models work well at getting the beer in the hands of the customers, because you won't get stuff sitting on the shelves at Trader Joe's for a year and a half.

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