re: Tin Roof sold?

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once all of these breweries started making these ridiculous citrus explosions

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Anyone know what is going on?

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I was listening to a beer economist on a podcast over the weekend and started wondering about Tin Roof and if they could survive.

Essentially, it's a great time to be a beer consumer. Plenty of high quality really good beer is on the shelves (for the most part). It is a tough time to be a brewery or even a craft beer bar.

Essentially, the market has reached equilibrium. Craft beer exploded with several years of 10-20% growth. What you are seeing now isn't necessarily a bust in the market, but moreso the industry catching up to normal business growth of 4-5%. On top of that, young people don't drink as much, binge drinking is going down, inflation is hitting everyone's pocket books, delayed affects of covid (though i think most of that is over now), and a new era of social media which has replaced socializing in person has all hurt breweries. Then, you add in what i said before, if you aren't making great beer, then you really don't stand a chance anymore. Everyone can make excellent beer. And since the market is nto as hot as it was, anyone making mediocre beer or anyone who can't combine great beer, with good marketing, and a good venue to drink the beer at, will have a tough time.

A lot of breweries tried to take advantage of rapid growth and expanded quickly (Urban South, Stone) to take advantage, but have since had to retract and close down expansions. One local brewery in particular, Parish, was very smart in their expansion efforts. Andrew did not branch out quickly and recklessly, but forecasted the market and saw what was coming. I'd bet that they are doing well financially and do not have to worry about this new beer market.

If anyone is interested in learning about it, listen to the episode on "The Session" podcast with the Chief Economist for the brewer's association Bart Watson.

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I wish Cypress Coast would buy the space and relocate. Good beer and atmosphere would be awesome for the LSU area.
I honestly don’t see how Cypress Coast makes it. Great beer but pretty sterile environment, bad location, no kids allowed just doesn’t seem like a recipe for brewery success.

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It would be nice if we could have 1 brewery in Baton Rouge that made great lagers.

Cypress Coast is ok, but it's getting harder to differentiate them from anywhere else. Hazy's on top of hazy's.

Also, CC not distributing along with what you listed, it would surprise me if they lasted another year.

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I’m not sure about this one. College bars are still packed on the weekends. Look at concerts and music festivals. They seem to be more popular than ever before and packed with people.

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That was more speculation on my part, and more of a societal shift. Not necessarily applicable to every person or location.

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Cypress Coast

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bad location

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It's on one of the busiest streets in BR and the no kids allowed is due to the stupid ABC/ATC permitting that they have to deal with.

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I wish Cypress Coast would buy the space and relocate. Good beer and atmosphere would be awesome for the LSU area.
I honestly don’t see how Cypress Coast makes it. Great beer but pretty sterile environment, bad location, no kids allowed just doesn’t seem like a recipe for brewery success.

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Thinking on this, it would be awesome if a group like Bluejacket out of DC that opened Saint X, would do something like that in BR, and utilize Tin Roof's space. A lot of brewery space and close to LSU's campus like Saint X is to the dome. If they could add a kitchen, add the cool horizontal fermenters and churn out German and Czech lagers, as well as cask that would save me an hour drive.

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but I think a “beer economist” (fake job) either knows what’s going on and won’t say or can’t see the forest for the trees

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He's an actual economist but lived in Berkley and was planning on becoming an academic before the brewer's association approached him.

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bad location

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I meant more the physical location in that little strip mall with no parking and the picnic tables crammed into the corner of the strip mall with no air circulation. And it seems more of a CC issue with the no kids? Every other brewery in the state allows kids.

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And it seems more of a CC issue with the no kids? Every other brewery in the state allows kids

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It's because of their license, it's more like a bar license. Gilla is the same, that's why they can serve other breweries beer.

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Every other brewery in the state allows kids.

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I see your point but the only way Cypress can have guest taps and sell hard seltzers and frozen drinks is with a bar license. That requires them to not allow under 21 year olds in there. The laws here in EBR suck for breweries.