re: Trend in craft beer?

It's hard to go to the Sierra Nevada facility in Asheville and call it a local brewery, but I do see your point.

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You say that as Sierra Nevada, Oskar Blues, New Belgium, etc. open up incredible breweries in Asheville.

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It's not like the larger breweries are going to disappear overnight. They have their followings. Between 2008 and 2016, the number of breweries has increased by 6 times, while at the same time, beer consumption declined and the cost of the average beer doubled.

Obviously, the vast majority of these breweries were neighborhood brewpubs, and their clientele is drinking fewer, albeit more expensive beers.

It will be interesting to see if Oskar Blues, Sierra Nevada, and New Belgium continue to grow, or if they have to step back a bit, too.

There are a number of breweries in Oregon that have multiple locations. Breakside, Laurelwood, Double Mountain, Block 15, Hopworks Urban Brewery, etc... They are approaching expansion like a local restaurant chain would, rather than trying to increase production in one location, they are adding locations to increase their footprint.

Foreign beer... hahahahahahaha
Yah, let’s teach dem Yankees a lesson and keep their tainted northern beer outta our southern glasses.
You are a tool

120 sells

The rest doesn't move anything special

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I see it more as the product of the improving quality and diversity of beers in a given market.

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Some of the smaller brewers are also realizing their margins are much higher with $5 taproom pours and growler fills than bottle or can sales, so they're putting more focus on that. Then their only real challenge is getting people to their taproom. The ones here in Birmingham do a good job of that.

Good People is the only one that has a decent distribution footprint. The others pretty much just distribute within the state.