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The Faubourg Brewing Debacle
Posted on 2/2/24 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 2/2/24 at 1:53 pm
quote:La.Illuminator
The Alabama company that owns Faubourg Brewing Co. in New Orleans has backed away from plans to expand the facility. Only its tap room and event space remain open.
This post was edited on 2/2/24 at 1:54 pm
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Posted on 2/2/24 at 2:47 pm to Stadium Rat
Dixie was around since 1907, and then they change the name it has seem to just go down hill.
Posted on 2/2/24 at 3:07 pm to commode
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Dixie was around since 1907, and then they change the name it has seem to just go down hill.
Dixie was a shitty beer for decades. I never tried Faubourg but it was because i knew it was Dixie behind it. Faubourg failure was/is inevitable. You can't toe the line of wanting to be mass marketed shite beer and also craft. Them selling out to an obvious grift was nothing more than Benson wanting to make a buck off of a local name and not knowing who the bad actors were.
Craft beer is in correction mode, and also experiencing the end result of governments covid actions. We are seeing/about to see a large swing int he other direction, a lot more brewery closings, and then you'll see a resurgence in a year or 2 to get back up to equilibrium which is about where we are now.
Gimmicks, shite beer, and opportunists won't survive, but in the end, i think craft beer will come out stronger.
This post was edited on 2/2/24 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 2/2/24 at 4:37 pm to BugAC
Someone here commented at the time of the name change that it was doomed because Dixie was meh beer that people still bought largely for nostalgia reasons. Change the name, lose the nostalgia factor, lose the sales. I think that poster was correct.
Posted on 2/2/24 at 4:58 pm to Stadium Rat
Very interesting article. Faubourg is just a small part of it.
The focus is on a private equity company that has allegedly bought out small breweries and left a trail of lost jobs, closings, and unpaid bills in their wake. The article may make others think twice or ten times before doing business with them.
The focus is on a private equity company that has allegedly bought out small breweries and left a trail of lost jobs, closings, and unpaid bills in their wake. The article may make others think twice or ten times before doing business with them.
Posted on 2/2/24 at 5:53 pm to Stadium Rat
Just hope they don’t screw up Oyster City. Those are good beers.
Posted on 2/2/24 at 8:17 pm to BugAC
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We are seeing/about to see a large swing int he other direction, a lot more brewery closings, and then you'll see a resurgence in a year or 2 to get back up to equilibrium which is about where we are now.
Maybe, maybe not. Maybe craft beer consumers are growing tired of paying for high dollar craft beer or switching to other beverages. At some point a downturn in greatly overpriced liquor may occur as well, especially those with celebrities attached to them.
Posted on 2/2/24 at 9:03 pm to BugAC
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Craft beer is in correction mode, and also experiencing the end result of governments covid actions. We are seeing/about to see a large swing int he other direction, a lot more brewery closings, and then you'll see a resurgence in a year or 2 to get back up to equilibrium which is about where we are now.
Gimmicks, shite beer, and opportunists won't survive, but in the end, i think craft beer will come out stronger.
I agree. Less breweries, fewer gimmick beers, and better quality. It has gotten ridiculous in the last 8-10 years.
To the point where I got tired of even trying to keep up with anything new and just stuck with the things I liked from the beginning from established breweries.
Posted on 2/2/24 at 9:13 pm to BugAC
quote:2 sizable houston area breweries went down in the last month. cocktail renaissance and seltzer boom helping clear out the glut of meh breweries
Craft beer is in correction mode, and also experiencing the end result of governments covid actions. We are seeing/about to see a large swing int he other direction, a lot more brewery closings, and then you'll see a resurgence in a year or 2 to get back up to equilibrium which is about where we are now.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 5:49 am to BugAC
The gimmicky stuff has definitely gotten out of control. Lately when I reach for a beer, it is usually something like a Sierra Nevada Torpedo. I'll mix in a ghost every once in a while.
As for the couple of Houston breweries that shut down, Ingenious was just in a terrible location. Buffalo Bayou, in my opinion, just made meh to crappy beer.
As for the couple of Houston breweries that shut down, Ingenious was just in a terrible location. Buffalo Bayou, in my opinion, just made meh to crappy beer.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 8:03 am to tirebiter
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Maybe craft beer consumers are growing tired of paying for high dollar craft beer or switching to other beverages.
Well, grain prices have doubled for anything imported. War in Ukraine is the main reason. Then there are reports of horrible hop crop harvests also in Europe. American raw ingredients seem to be unaffected o it side of the usual shite economics affecting the globe.
But also with that, is price of everything is going up. So you take a product that was already overpriced to take advantage of a once booming market, then add actual increase of raw ingredients, labor, etc… and some breweries tried to adjust their pricing for this inflation and kept increasing beer prices….and then you have the fall. Covid, people drinking less beer and migrating to spirits, seltzer, the dollar losing its value, and then at the same time, craft beer finally peaking out and starting to go to its natural “stasis”, and you get an over correction in the market. Right now, we are seeeing breweries shut down almost daily. Regional breweries are closing their expansions sites, and getting hit the hardest. The small guys are finding it nearly impossible to operate without a profit. And the bad breweries are folding more quickly, which is inevetiable.
Without a surge in the economy, American breweries are in a bad spot for awhile, IMO. Really good breweries, like brieux carre, are even in trouble.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 8:24 am to TheDude
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Buffalo Bayou,
I didn’t realize they were having issues. Just saw that face book post. Their beers were average but they definitely had a cool arse tap room
Posted on 2/3/24 at 8:25 am to Stadium Rat
Post name change, Dixie sales dropped almost 60%. Never rebounded. Faubourg was always a tax shelter for the owners, nothing more, nothing less.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 8:29 am to Louie T
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cocktail renaissance and seltzer boom helping clear out the glut of meh breweries
Also, Gen Z is drinking a lot less than Millennials, Gen X, and other generations did at their age. A lot of people believe the proliferation of legal/semi-legal marijuana is a big part of it.
As far as craft beer goes, I’ll echo the sentiments of others. They went too far with all the expensive, gimmicky beers that aren’t sustainable everyday products and the novelty wore off. Too many poor quality brewers jumped in and tried to capitalize on the rising popularity.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:04 am to tirebiter
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Maybe craft beer consumers are growing tired of paying for high dollar craft beer or switching to other beverages
Tired of paying $22 for a 4 pack of 16 ounce cans of complete hop bombs that all taste the same? Not I!
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:03 am to Stadium Rat
Teedy is working on this with the Governor of Tahiti. Beach meeting scheduled for later this month.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:15 am to tiggerfan02 2021
quote:that’s pretty much what I’ve always done. Fortunately we have Gnarly Barley right around the corner so I can drink good beer in a couple different styles and always have something I like. Skater Aid, Jucifer from there and paradise park from urban south are all I drink. I would be miserable if I had to go back to cheap beer though
I got tired of even trying to keep up with anything new and just stuck with the things I liked from the beginning from established breweries.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 12:49 pm to TheDude
quote:yeah, i got out to ingenious maybe once/year bc it's nowhere near anything else i visit. they at least tried interesting stuff, although very little of it was all that good.
As for the couple of Houston breweries that shut down, Ingenious was just in a terrible location. Buffalo Bayou, in my opinion, just made meh to crappy beer.
buffalo bayou was a cool taproom + solid food but bad beer.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 5:34 pm to TheDude
Not the point of the thread, but Houston is a seriously underrated beer city. Eureka Heights, Great Heights, Platypus, Baileson, Holler, St Arnold, and the Post Oak Whole Foods are all good shite. I've been to a bunch of others breweries in the city but those are my favorites.
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