How are your local breweries doing?

Great is definitely an overstatement, they were fine (much preferred when they were a beer bar in LIC) but there's a bunch of real good breweries here, it takes quite a bit to cut through the noise. For any given style there's 3-4 breweries in the city itself doing a better job, and when it comes to distro stuff on shelves they get pushed even further down. Unless there's some great discount I can't imagine grabbing their stuff over everything else we get here.

I could see them having been a reasonably popular neighborhood spot for locals, but it's not too surprising that just being a decently trafficked bar may not be enough to sustain a production brewery.

They also used to have a connection with The Jeffrey, Fools Gold, and Crown Alley, I remember thinking moving Alewife from a bar to a brewery was a way to vertically integrate product into their spots, but I'm pretty sure that got severed at some point over the last few years so maybe they didn't account on losing three accounts pushing their beers as basically the in-house option.

 

Great in that they made a solid variety of styles in addition to the ubiquitous NEIPA and they operated very much as a local gathering spot. Probably rent and rising materials costs were too much

 

If you want style variety in NYC, there's Wild East, Threes, Strong Rope, Grimm, KCBC, all way better than Alewife ever was. I mean our newest brewery Eckhart is solely traditional German style focused and they seem to be off to a good start, point being that avoiding a NEIPA focus isn't close to an issue around these parts.

 

yeah, I expected more out of the fiddlehead taproom when I did my trip last year but i they're selling then good for them.

 

I live a 5 minute drive away from 3 breweries and 1 brewpub. They all seem to be doing well. By the way the brewpub has been open for over 25 years,

 

I have been amazed at how well they have done