Beer Lovers and Wine Lovers. Can we get along?

Well I was in class and was talking about a business proposition to open up a craft beer bar and wine bar. I was sating that I believe a craft beer bar serving beer in proper glassware while also serving wine in proper glassware alongside each other could be a successful business venture. The reply of my professor was, "Do you think beer drinkers like wine geeks?".

Now I am here asking you guys a question, if an establishment took the proper steps into opening a bar that had both beer and wine. Im saying maybe 50-80 taps, proper temperature, proper glassware, and 50-100 wine bottles, proper cellar, glassware and maybe 10-20 by the glass options kept properly in a preservation system to hold taste. Since there would be a wine cellar, cellaring beer would also be an option.

Now If a bar did both things great and did it properly so wine connoisseurs could enjoy their wine the way they want, and us beer connoisseurs could enjoy our beer the way we like, would the presence of one another deter us? Could we possibly not be in the same establishment even though it caters to everything we like?

I believe its the people and the love of the beverage, whatever choice it may be, that would get people to interact with each other and no one look down on each other for choosing one over the other. I am just asking how you guys feel about this.

 

Well Of course staff would have knowledge of both.

 

The way Im thinking is having a menu of 30 items, some tapas and then entrees that would go great with beer and wine. Im not thinking that people will cross the roads but more like people coming that love beer with friends that don't enjoy beer but like wine or just people that enjoy both worlds, or each independently. Ill go out there and throw out that I have 25,000 sq feet to work with. 50-80 taps seems large but the space is available for cunstruction. Of course Cellared wine would be above the $100 dollar range and beer would be no more than $50 after cellared a few year(if we even decide to do bottle cellar for beer), but it is two different markets and the wine people would know that as well as the beer people. Plus if we have decently priced beer and wine who can argue, no one will be insisting on people to buy the cellared items at a higher cost.

My question is though, would beer geeks and wine geeks get along if enjoying their beverage of choice in a bar that caters to both, or would one talk down to the other?

In my personal opinion, if I like something and it is being done right I don't care what the person next to me is having as long as he is enjoying it and we can have a nice conversation about anything else.

Also, this is all hypothetical or is it?!

 

Lol! Come on man.

 

Problem with this is taxes, Beer and Wine License is cheaper than Liquor license, and by cheaper I mean with a beer and wine license the guests pay the taxes, with a liquor the business pays them. This is business talking, not me personally lol

 

Guys, Im trying to be serious here. Why must we be so harsh..