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  1. I missed the preview of Vista last night, but I'm hearing GREAT things about it. Beer program is up and running at full pace, while their food is equally exciting. I hear its a pretty great plot of land as well and super kid friendly. Opens tomorrow IIRC.

  2. I use albumoftheyear.org to see who released that week. they have user and critic generated releases, but i don't typically read them. i go to spotify and load anything interesting i saw on the site onto a playlist and just weed out the albums/singles from there as i listen to them.

  3. 12 hours ago, deft said:

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    BVB IPA continues to impress me. Really liking this end of the line. Fuck aggy and hope I don’t die from drinking it.

    Had their new pilsner that was pretty good. First time I'd had a lager from them. They did the style justice. The aggy thing bothers me inasmuch as it does listening to REK and Lyle. Which is not at all.

  4. 28 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    I'm gonna go ahead and assume it's a bunch of IPAs, DIPAs, and hazy IPAs.  Perhaps even a trio of NEIPAs...

     

     

    The list is posted up above, lo the place corrected their pricing to $6 per, mostly

  5. Hey did that work? probably not. anyway, Live Oak Pilz is $8/pint, Achor Steam is $8/pint, Pinthouse's Man O War is $8 pint, Black Butte Porter Nitro is $5/6oz pour, 3.9% ABV Oddwood Life Skills Saison is $12/12oz pour, and so on. There's like 30 taps with this pricing trend. You get the idea.

  6. Well its a very expensive taplist. you should really take a look at it and be as disgusted as I am.

    (look, this website is wonky. i can't post the pics from a 3rd party site. it don't make no sense.)

     

     

  7. This is a screen shot from the menu of a new brewery opening in Austin that also has guest taps on.

    You know what? Maybe we have reached peak craft because this is some FUCKING JESUS SHITDICKS BULLSHIT right here.

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  8. 1 hour ago, PvilleStang said:

    I'm with Greenspoint.  There's definitely a point of diminishing return per brewery.  Most breweries aren't bringing new beer drinkers with them, rather they're pulling customers that would be spending their money at other local breweries to purchase their goods.  I would agree if the new breweries were coming online in under-served areas, but when they're spinning up within blocks of eachother as we're seeing in major metropolises in Texas, they're really hamstringing the least powerful / crappiest producing breweries.

    Beer is not a necessity, so it's hard to put a per capita consumption value on it, and even more difficult to put a supply / demand cost curve together given the range of tastes and styles.

    Eating out at a restaurant is not a necessity, and yet we see hundreds of restaurants open in major cities all over the country. GP is somewhat right, the way we think of breweries as being this citywide monolith, or even regional monolith is mostly over.

    There will be the Real Ales and the Saint Arnold's who cast a pretty wide net over their states, but mostly, the future of beer is that of a really local, really fresh beer bar. Many will have food of some variety, whether its a kitchen or a truck, but their purpose will ultimately be to serve a very specific region, or be a part of a string of breweries similar to a Brewery Row or whatever you'd wanna call it.

    Distribution will become scarcer, it already is. It probably costs 4/5ths of profit to deliver a keg when a brewery could sell the keg onsite for nearly 100% profit. If you want a brewery's beer, you'll need to go to the source. There will be the occasional distribution to places with high volume beer drinkers like Draught House or Craft Pride for marketing purposes, but what will become getting scarcer are those actual beer bars with dozens of taps. Eventually, we will see more people opting for their local brewery with a nice little Philly cheese steak rather than their local beer bar with dozens of out-of-region (read: out of season) beers. In a place like Austin, this works very well, but ever more so in underserved cities like Houston and Dallas and SA (etc.).  

    Yes, we will see breweries die who can't keep up with quality foremost, but also those who didn't give themselves enough of a runway to work out their kinks before they opened (or even after their debut), but that has minimally to do with oversaturation and more to do with the fickle nature of craft beer drinkers overall.  

  9. 1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Ill say it: I think the Texas market is saturated with craft beer

     

    Already over 320ish (iirc) breweries and brewpubs in the state, with at least another 100 more planned to open by this time next year

     

    Im not saying there isnt room for more breweries, but currently, with craft marketshare at what it is, I really think people are going to see effects sometime in the next year or two... especially the bigger breweries/breweries that have already expanded from initial opening size

     

    With all the good beer being made out there, both locally and nationally, and the dramatic increase in brands that have come to Texas over the past 2-3 years, I do think there will be some fallout. I agree with BCaps earlier position that beer will be hyper local and more and more smaller places will pop up. However, I dont think Texas is at the point yet where we can support 400-500 breweries and brewpubs. Until then, its gonna be a struggle for a lot of these places to gain/retain marketshare.

     

    I know most on here wont agree, but just wanted to throw my opinion out there to start a discussion... if anyone else is so inclined

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    I'll say it again. Its nowhere near saturation point. Texas has one of the widest gaps of population-to-breweries. There's triple the number of breweries in places like CA, CO, and OR to name a few. What Texas lacks is QUALITY breweries. Also, so many new breweries opening up have this pipe dream of world dominance, and that just isn't going to be the case again until the next post-prohibition. Localized breweries with a small regional reach and decent taprooms are where it's at. A few new breweries will shut down, but probably not the good ones, and most definitely ones who've overextended their reach.

    Drink local.

  10. It would be RAD if they added a Safe Standing student section like they have behind the goals in many euro stadiums for supporter groups (although one of these examples is from an MLS stadium). Easy to do, forces student involvement, first come first served kinda thing

     

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