Next brewery to go national?

Stone.

 

Let it be Founders let it be Founders let it be Founders...
(I already get the other six)

Side note/rhetorical question: Why does most beer seem to travel from west to east? Is it the Jet Stream? Midwest/East Coast beers finding their way to West Coast shelves remind me of salmon swimming upstream. Then, also like salmon, they often die a lonely, miserable death as shelf turds.

 

They postponed (er, "adjusted" ) the start of construction of their east coast brewery in NC.

 

New Belgium or Lagunitas. NB because they have several gateway beers like Fat Tire and Lagunitas because they're value priced for a craft brewery, like Sierra Nevada.

But what is their business plan and what do the people in charge plan to do?

Doh! Posted before I saw Jesskidden's reply.

 

Lagunitas

 

New Belgium
Lagunitas
Stone

In that order

 

I think it's going to be laguntias and Goose Island.

Chicago is key it distribution. Lagunitas was smart to set up shop here. It'll allow them to ship all over the eastern half of the continental US.

 

Flying Dog also has a surprisingly large footprint including AK and HI (surprising that is considering they're in 29th for capacity).

 

Redhook and Widmer are already national, do I win anything?
If I do, I really hope it's not Redhook or Widmer beer.

 

Hard to imagine any craft breweries expanding so significantly to cover all 50 states or the lower 48 within the next few years. Maybe just maybe in 10 years. At most they would expand to the heavily populated states and the states where beer is in high demand. More demand = more profit. I couldn't see Founders expanding to some place like Wyoming or Montana

 

Probably moving their headquarters and brewing from Colorado to the east coast is a significant factor in their broad distribution region. Not many breweries* ever did that.

* (Well, there is Pabst. Milwaukee > San Antonio, TX > Woodridge, Illinois > Los Angeles.
But that was easy, because the only brewing they do is on the Bunn 12 cup coffee maker in the break room).

 

I work for a beer distributor and word is New Belgium will be here in Florida by mid-August. I know that they tried to bring it down years ago and pulled it all back because of distribution problems and keeping the beer at the quality they want to sell at. I heard they were going to be sold through all of the MillerCoors houses in this state.

 

Aren't all of those breweries huge anyways? ...

 

How big is Rogue? It seems like they are just about everywhere.

 

Oskar Blues, and New Belgium, both opening Breweries in Asheville to cater to the East coast.