Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Where do you live? I’m in Oregon and we probably have 40 breweries in my midsized city. I’m wondering if its just a matter of market saturation where only the strong survive. Funnily enough, I’m currently in Kona, Hawaii on vacation and bought some Kona Brewing Co. beer. Turns out it was brewed and bottled in Portland, Oregon.

    OTOH, I find that IPAs are super 'effin saturated and not that great after drinking them over the years. It seems like every brewer wants to jump into IPAs even though you already have 47 choices at every convenience store in the country.

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      1 year ago

      I’m in Portland. I feel like a brewery closes every month or so.

      I mean: Burnside, Royale, Laurelwood, Grains of Wrath, brewery 26, Hair of the Dog, Pono, Modern Times, Sasquatch, Portland Brewing… those are the ones I can think of off hand