People are definitely still drinking, there's just not an infinite market for craft breweries. They've been popping up like crazy for a couple decades, there has to be a saturation point. Also, one of the first things people can do to save money is spend less on nonessentials, like buy cheaper beer, drink less, go to the bar less.
Wasn't there an explosion of craft breweries, all obsessed with things like "hops" and making niche brews? I feel like there was bound to be a pullback in these expensive places that are basically all the same.
Late 2010s saw an unprecedented amount of breweries open. The two beer industry guys I know told me that it was unsustainable and many would close up. Turns out the world didn't 3 breweries in every town with their own crappy IPAs. The ones who made actual good beer aren't having too many issues.
But, even the really good ones have taken a hit. Seltzers and canned cocktails and even the widespread availability of the devil's lettuce have really cut into their sales recently. Young adults aren't drinking quite as much beer, according to my buddy and my observations.
Is it possible that people haven’t really stopped drinking, but instead have stopped drinking more expensive liquor with their friends, and instead go for cheap swill to get hammered? I’m asking, I don’t know.
Wasn't there an explosion of craft breweries, all obsessed with things like "hops" and making niche brews? I feel like there was bound to be a pullback in these expensive places that are basically all the same.
Yea, just like cigars and scotch (last popular with your grand dad) went from 0-60 around 1999. All of the sudden everyone was smoking cigars and buying $60 2 oz glasses of gasoline. Aside from the scotch (and craft whiskeys craze as of late), craft beer seemed doomed to have a pullback. Not to mention the low carb fever we currently have.
OP, can you cut it with the over dramatizing everything you post?
We aren't idiots and you can just treat us like intelligent people, ok?
The industry is not dying. No one is saying that. They say in certain regions it may be experiencing modest declines, and that is only in certain regions.
And they say that may be due to increase cost of supplies (ingredients) and transportation, thank you tarrif Trump.
Because of Trump's tarrifs. Brilliant analysis it probably has nothing to do with the increase of local breweries. In my city a new one opens every month there are probably 25 in a 50 mile radius.
Booze will never die. Not even a Constitutional amendment could kill it. It's the most enduring industry this side of the world's oldest profession. The less educated poor will most certainly help keep it alive c/o numbing themselves against their inability to honestly acquire social status symbols. Bored, lonely people will be consistent customers, too.
Booze will never die. Not even a Constitutional amendment could kill it. It's the most enduring industry this side of the world's oldest profession. The less educated poor will most certainly help keep it alive c/o numbing themselves against their inability to honestly acquire social status symbols. Bored, lonely people will be consistent customers, too.
I doubt less people are drinking, i think craft brewerys going down would make sense. Low carb diets, more fancy whiskeys, less calorie dense options, all the weird mixers...
Drinking 300 grams of liquid grain/carbs is not real popular right now. But everything swings back eventually.
Beer’s decline has been countered with a rise in weed. Both are destructive. I never developed a taste for beer and mostly abstain from booze in general. Don’t use drugs either. If I want to relax at the end of the day, I read a book. If I want to socialize, I simply talk to people. I don’t need to be intoxicated to carry on a conversation.