Fads in bars:<\/p>\n
I don’t drink a lot of beer anymore – I think I’ve had less than half a dozen since 2018.\u00a0 But as someone who didn’t start drinking ’til I went ot Europe, and so got kind of spoiled by really really good beer, I certainly enjoyed the rise of the microbrewery over the past decade or so.<\/p>\n
But as microbreweries started opening on every corner in the North Loop, Northeast, Dinkytown, Lowertown, Downtown Minneapolis, Lowertown and the less blighted parts of University, I kind of thought a “market correction” had to be coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Looks like we’re creeping up on it; Wild Mind Brewing, somewhere in South Minneapolis, has killed the keg<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n Wild Mind\u2019s announcement comes less than two weeks after last call at another reputable beer maker, Alloy Brewing in Coon Rapids. Alloy\u2019s team blamed their closure<\/a> on \u201crising costs, supply chain hurdles and an incredible decrease in sales over the last three years.\u201d That\u2019s a common tale among breweries of late, with alcohol sales declining all across America as younger adults turn to nonalcoholic and\/or THC drink options.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Among the other Minnesota breweries to cease operations over the past year are Minneapolis-founded Dangerous Man,<\/a> Chanhassen Brewing Co., Mankato Brewery, Burning Brothers in St. Paul,<\/a> Loons Landing in Savage and Finnegan\u2019s in Minneapolis (whose beers are now brewed and on tap at Fulton Brewing).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The breweries are folding all over the place, so it’s not just “Minneapolis crime and taxes” – at least not entirely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, Hudson\u00a0does\u00a0<\/em>seem to be doing just fine…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fads in bars: 1990:\u00a0 every bar that could find three TVs was re-branding itself as a “sports bar”.\u00a0 2000s:\u00a0 those same bars found a couple old church pews and a Guinness tap, and became “Irish Bars”.\u00a0\u00a0 2010s:\u00a0 Those same bars found themselves some brew vats and became “Microbreweries”.\u00a0 I don’t drink a lot of beer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89804,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89803\/revisions\/89804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n