As a non-drinker stop the cap about people not drinking anymore. In related news seattle sucks, shocking (not really) that businesses are shutting down there. Fantasyland policies and all. I would get out, move to a friendlier and warmer state.
there's been a concerted effort for decades by Big Pharma to lower the "alcoholism" bar below the level of physical addiction and ultimately towards zero. Latest thing is the "any amount of drinking causes cancer" shtick.
Someone who has one or two drinks a day is never even drunk, typically has no behavioral or health issues from it, no problems at all - except for it being an absolute contraindication to a long list of prescription meds. In particular antidepressants. To put someone on those long term, they have to never drink.
Always follow the money. The prescription meds are more profitable so their pushers are winning out.
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.
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.
Sorry, the industry is dying. The idea that it's just temporary "modest declines" is cope. That's exactly how an industry starts dying. The customer base is aging out and young people don't drink. My elder millennial friends no longer think "checking out the latest brewery" is enjoyable.
Personally, I never got the appeal of breweries. The biggest flaw is the beer doesn't pair well with food.
If Trump's tariffs helped kill it, then good for him. MAHA.
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.
Sorry, the industry is dying. The idea that it's just temporary "modest declines" is cope. That's exactly how an industry starts dying. The customer base is aging out and young people don't drink. My elder millennial friends no longer think "checking out the latest brewery" is enjoyable.
Personally, I never got the appeal of breweries. The biggest flaw is the beer doesn't pair well with food.
If Trump's tariffs helped kill it, then good for him. MAHA.
The main reasons why booze is going out of fashion are, in no particular order,
* Due to technologies like wearables that track your sleep cycles, people are more aware of the deleterious effects of alcohol on their health. Also health guru influencers like Andrew Huberman talking about these things, Joe Rogan popularizing Dry January, etc.
* Trying to keep up with the Joneses on social media, needing to perpetually travel to exotic places and look fit / attractive in photos, the "self-care" (i.e. beauty) and skin care trends, etc.
* The fact that romantic relationships and encounters between men and women is dying. There's less of a point for a guy to go out to a bar on a Friday night if women are either staying home or don't want to talk to guys at bars. Dating apps are rarely leading to men and women actually meeting up to get drinks.
It seems like every couple months, the typical restaurant or bar has an additional N/A option on their drink menu. This January, some restaurants I went to had entire N/A drink menus that the waitresses said were for Dry January.
Sorry, the industry is dying. The idea that it's just temporary "modest declines" is cope. That's exactly how an industry starts dying. The customer base is aging out and young people don't drink. My elder millennial friends no longer think "checking out the latest brewery" is enjoyable.
Personally, I never got the appeal of breweries. The biggest flaw is the beer doesn't pair well with food.
If Trump's tariffs helped kill it, then good for him. MAHA.
The main reasons why booze is going out of fashion are, in no particular order,
* Due to technologies like wearables that track your sleep cycles, people are more aware of the deleterious effects of alcohol on their health. Also health guru influencers like Andrew Huberman talking about these things, Joe Rogan popularizing Dry January, etc.
* Trying to keep up with the Joneses on social media, needing to perpetually travel to exotic places and look fit / attractive in photos, the "self-care" (i.e. beauty) and skin care trends, etc.
* The fact that romantic relationships and encounters between men and women is dying. There's less of a point for a guy to go out to a bar on a Friday night if women are either staying home or don't want to talk to guys at bars. Dating apps are rarely leading to men and women actually meeting up to get drinks.
As usual, you have made generalizations from the tiny niche demographic you inhabit to an entire worldwide industry. Craft breweries are an insignificant sliver of worldwide alcohol consumption. The number of people using wearables or perpetually traveling to exotic places is tiny. And no one outside of a certain demographic in the US has any idea who Andrew Huberman is.
While there is evidence that alcohol consumption has been decreasing in Western Europe, it is increasing in the Western Pacific and SE and South Asian regions, including China and India. Most people that drink don't go to breweries or bars. They buy it at their neighborhood market and consume it at their homes or the homes of friends and relatives. Also, in many Asian countries having marijuana and other drugs are serious crimes while alchohol is not and easily available. It is definitely not going away.
I always thought that the craft breweries are a weird concept when they started popping up in Colorado like mushrooms.
People like to hang out together and drink a beer or two. They don't need 575 different beers doing so and not every place has to create their own beers anymore. We are not in the 17th century anymore.
Craft breweries made beer stupid expensive and the vibe at their locations get old really quickly. I rather go to an Irish Pub somewhere.
And then you have to pay $8 + tip for a smallish beer and more often than not it comes in a plastic cup.
No thank you. I go to the store grab a 6 or 12 pack of a nice beer and have a couple of good evenings at home.
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.
it is increasing in the Western Pacific and SE and South Asian regions, including China and India. Most people that drink don't go to breweries or bars. They buy it at their neighborhood market and consume it at their homes or the homes of friends and relatives. Also, in many Asian countries having marijuana and other drugs are serious crimes while alchohol is not and easily available. It is definitely not going away.
SE Asian alcohol consumption is naturally limited by the high frequency of certain genetics affecting alcohol dehydrogenase.