Good Brew Guide

I’ll forever stand by this final statement: Give a damn about your beer and support the good ones, especially if they are local, and your money will help the rest attend to itself.

Almost two years since we shut this puppy down. We ain’t coming back, though. And no, it’s not @goofydeer’s fault. goodbrewguide.com/editorial/…

I hate that Oktoberfest beers (both the Marzen and the Festbier) are becoming scarce from newer breweries. Glad all the established breweries, which the newer ones are killing, still make them. I dunno what the statistics are but I rarely meet a person who dislikes them.

In the end, Yuengling will be right back where it is around the country, next to domestic taps and craft taps will be fighting for space just as they always have. Breweries should keep working on making a good product that’s undeniable, instead of complaining about comp.

Someone mentioned that during this Yuengling launch in Texas, there have been incentives for bars to take off local craft taps for the launch. That’s the bar’s fault for taking that, not Yuengling or even the distro for offering that. The bar doesn’t have to accept it.

Yuengling can be seen as a challenge to Texas brewers or seen as a loss or annoyance. Either way, Yuengling has played their hand and now its their turn. Are they going to grow or poke and make fun of it?

I think instead of craft beer, its good beer, marketing beer, and grandpa’s beer. The nuance is there too, but doesn’t have any form of majority.

If only “super nice people”, “really great taproom”, “awesome branding”, “rad events” equalled good beer.

Somedays I find some hope for Texas breweries (and breweries who send their beers here) and then I think about the beer that distributors here have neglected or ignored to the point of extinction or leaving the state. We need to dismantle the power distros have in this state.