Wave of Portland breweries have either shut their doors or plan to close down
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2023
- Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider joins Pono, Laurelwood, Sessionable and others. Owners say pandemic-era changes have resulted in sagging sales.
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Turns out, homeless drug addicts aren't real big fans of overpriced microbrews.
Who'd have ever guessed???
Everyone trying so hard not to mention the elephant in the room 🤦♀️
Wonder what that would be... can't put my finger on it. Oh wait.
Can you mention it for us blind people?
Biden
How much are they charging for a glass of beer?
@@chiquita683 😆I was going to say Rutherford B. Hayes.
They forget to mention that 1 or 2 beers (plus tip of course) costs almost the same as an entire six pack. Rather just have drinks at a friends for a fraction
Inflation?
It's closing because of crime and people with brains and money moving out of that liberal hellscape.
go back to drinking shitty beer
The market is saturated especially here in Asheville, NC.. And a beer cost 7 dollars and they want 15,20,30 percent tips. Screw them
7 and 8 dollars for a pint is a joke
It seems the response to greater competition and slower sales is increased price per pint, gallon or keg. It's not sustainable. It's pushing people away from pubs, taprooms and beer bars and into packaged beer consumed at home.
Insane. And most of it crap. A lot of it tasted like piss. Just because you read a couple of books about brewing beer, write a business plan and get a loan, it doesn't mean you're another Joseph Anheuser. The hard cider was a joke! ALL of it tasted like piss.
$8 to $12 nowadays.
Well, they always had a state commision and tax for alcohols, so like 30 dollar bottles were 45 up there. 25% increase i guess. But then beer had a much lower tax, but they were talking about increasing it in 2011. Maybe it happened. But back then it was like3-5 for a pint. Shit, some strip club had anything for $2 during happy hour. No cover fee either, or if there was it was like 5 bucks. Didnt even have to tip the girls.
Just as bad as $14 for a glass of wine
They voted themselves out of business.
Exactly
Got to love it
People who keep saying this need to get a life. There are cities that have low moments all over the country. Portland has complex issues. It has little to do with voting as the most extreme people here don't really vote. There are red states with worse crime and in my opinion, would be more miserable to visit.
@@amandad6782 The high crime rates in... Red states... But in Blue cities... With lots of black people.
Demographics matter.
Portland is a shithole because the demographics of Portland voted for a shithole.
you have no clue what goes on in the brewery business.
I did the finish carpentry in Payette Brew Co in Boise, they invited me for a beer when I had some pick up work to do after they opened. It was awkward, guys with man buns and shiny shoes, couldn't carry a conversation. I pounded the beer and left, bitterest drink I ever had. Not for Construction workers.
Hipsters suck. They're mostly communists and think they're friends of working people but they themselves think manual labor is beneath them and look down on actual working people. The only thing worse than having one as an employee is having one as a boss.
I think "Man-Bun" was the name of one of their "beers"
This.
Bro just because you have the beer pallet of a child doesn't mean you represent construction workers, the temerity lol.
Keep drinking bud light lmao
The big idea was that the customer was getting something handmade, special and unique, in an upscale setting. They got greedy and priced themselves right out the general, walk by market. Then the virus/lockdown killed off what little was left of their customer base. Most of their beers tasted terrible anyway and the burgers were the exact same slack attempts at all of them.
Yeah, for those that dont know the customer service in portland is extremely bad. People talking making average food but pricing it high, wait staff that will act so superficial and like you are not worth their time and then call you names for tipping only 15%. Owners taking all the tips and paying it out in paychecks so they can steal some because it is too hard to figure it out between the large wait staff they dont totally need and the deductions from your pay. Lived there in the 2010's when it was a place people were moving to because san francisco was too expensive. Was way different then, not much violent crime. But even before 2020 i heard it was really getting bad I heard. Like in 2018 the police were quitting because the mayor didnt support them.
"upscale setting" Translation: low lighting surrounded by high paid hipster d-bags wearing winter beanies indoors with silly facial hair and has a bad, barbed wire tattoo on their upper arm and whose 65-year-old mother has pink hair and tries to be her son's best friend.
That's not the entire story. Portland has become a crime riddled hellscape thanks to democrats policies and anyone with expendable income has or is moving out!
Yeah tastes change, I remember when Hipsters and rich college snob kids would buy Pabst blue ribbon beer because it was a trendy thing to go slumming and seen drinking this beer meant for the lower working class , around that same time the younger drinkers were in on that nasty tasting IPA beer as a cool thing, it only lasted a while because of the stigma that if you didn't like IPA beer you had a unrefined pallet and not sophisticated enough to enjoy it, then it faded away as people realized it sucked no matter what somebody else said
Like watching the fall of the Roman Empire...with memes and wifi.
Tesla, Tesla, St Croix, Wifi, Wifi, St Croix....
So you can’t just ride off the fact that it’s made it Portland, now you actually gotta work. 😂😂😂 no wonder they closed
These breweries were just a yuppie fad.
Nobody drinks beer in Portland. That's kid stuff. You gotta have the good stuff in the needles.
You are just another miserable Portland hater. Get a life. I live here and rarely see needles.
It's shrewder to make the county buy your foil to smoke it off of...
There were a bunch of breweries that closed after the first boom i think in the early 90s. The price of their beers was a major problem.
Here in the east you can go to a local brewery and get a quality craft beer for about the same price that you can order an "import" beer in a restaurant for.
I'm honestly hoping I can see Oregon's final moments of a society as it crashes around their leaders.
You are as you are living in their end times.
ok weird troll
There's red states that are far worse. I have no desire to go there either.
Just Oregon? I say the whole country.
What's that got to do with breweries?
Them saying this is a heaven for raft while amidst a wave of closings is code for market over saturation, yikes!.
Well, they do have the most craft breweries, but when middle and bigger guys started canning it was all over.
It helps that they are selling a 4 pack of craft beers for $20 now lol
You voted for it. Wear your mask while eating
Also I would say that many cities have turned into disgusting $hit holes that now one wants to go to anymore, we used to go to PDX and visit a lot but NOT anymore!
So what? There are 43 million of these places that are no different than the next onr. Micro-Breweries are like Racquetball Clubs in the early 90's.
It's over, Hipsters.
All bubbles eventually pop
We need a watered down crap beer revival instead.
Amen, I drink Hamms, it’s light, flavorful, and affordable 👍, plus they’ve got the coolest commercial in the early 70’s, a man, his jeep, his bear, his Hamms, and the mountains👍, I’ve gone full circle, lol
@@Reitz86 yes!
I remember IPA was very popular. I used to drink a lot of things I no longer drink any more. Tastes do change. I am more into a light pilsner or lager these days. With as many brewing companies as there are here it's no surprise.
Nobody likes cider and calling it a brewery is disingenuous.
Is that why they have their own section at most stores? because "nobody" consumes it?
Agreed, they should have differentiated more between breweries and cideries.
Decent story that lacks depth. Yes, we've lost some breweries. And there will be more. One of the big problems is that consumer tastes have shifted away from draft to packaged beer. The pandemic accelerated that trend, but it was already underway prior to 2020. Draft beer (cider, too) is fairly profitable when sold directly to consumers in a pub or brewery (or cidery). Packaged product isn't nearly as profitable because there are a lot of additional costs. The ongoing collapse of draft has really hurt small breweries, which depended on direct sales and can't afford the cost of packaging and distribution. This development has been documented in the beer media and should have been mentioned by someone in this story.
In San Diego there got to be a brew pub on every corner… Totally oversaturated, at least half of gone out of business… And like other comments, a pint of beer at a brewpub is over priced…
Nobody want's to spend 8-9 dollars a beer.
Sounds like the socialists are getting a lesson in capitalism
Here in the Seattle area, I see pints going for $8.25. Now a pint in the US is typically 14 ounces, not 16. I love my craft beers, but I can go to the store, and buy canned cocktails with 2 shots of liquor and around 12 to 14 percent alcohol for about $5 a can. And the only reason they're $5 a can is the local liquor tax . So why is beer so expensive? At $8.25 for 14 ounces, we're at about 59 cents an ounce, and the canned cocktail at $5 for a 12 ounce can is less than 42 cents an ounce. And again the canned cocktail can be 12 to 14% ABV. I feel that perhaps breweries have gotten a little too greedy.
In seattle I go to my favorite brewery and I’m willing to spend top dollar as long as they play metal music. Some of these breweries and taprooms, etc are so stuffy and full of s*** I can’t see myself sitting there wondering where their personalities at.
Every business should leave Portland. Hilarious no one will admit the out of control drug fueled crime.
Spend 8 dollars for a glass of beer or 1.25 for a can of Earthquake? Basic capitalism. Everyone jumped on the beer making wagon. Restaurants change names every couple summers in every city. Portland was the roughest sea port on the west coast. Shanghai tunnels, opium dens, saloons, gambling, brothels. Why not Revive those times.
You should get better hobbies than being a hater.
Hey
Is enjoying a craft beer and watching a guy take a dump on the sidewalk wrong?😂
Get a life.
Yes. I hate when you watch me. Perv.
Also because necessities are so frickin expensive, something has to sacrifice.
I doubt they cared what the customer wanted . I find hardly any lagers at brew pubs and when I do find one I like it's discontinued .
Crybaby art fag types whining about "I want to make what I love and what matters to me!" Come on.
Oh no, where am I going to get my over-priced cucumber and dandelion pale summer eqinox with hints of saffron and female wrestler sweat infused "beer?"
People are drinking less
That's what happens when a restaurant is a fad and just one of many. Flash in the pan and people are ready to move on to something else. That's so Portland. Never mind the ridiculous high prices.
Have you tried selling water?
It is definitely not the dangerous ishhole that the city has devolved into nor is it the terrible economy of the Biden-Harris admin. Everybody feels safe in the cities and they have lots of extra income to spend on very expensive beers and food. I don't even live in a city and it is common for my wife and I to end up spending close to $100 for drinks, food and tip. I'm not talking about a big night out with a bottle of wine and dessert, either. Lots of places tacking on the 20% with the check, too. Crazy.
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An obvious failure in keeping up with the times - they shoulda switched to cooking meth.
HAHA! You get what you vote for. Deal with it!
There is just too many craft beer places. I personally hate craft beer, but people do like it, I work at a convenient store and craft beer does sell, but pee beer sells more, like coors, bud, whatever and seltzers white claws twisted teas those are the big sellers.
A can of PBR is way cheaper and tastes way better than any of the "craft beers." They're all crap.
Democrats, democrats, democrats😂😂😂😂
Yeah it’s the pandemic. Why is everything going around here?
Younger generation ruining things for the rest of us once again!
Why would low income people be incentivized to blow money on overpriced IPA's ?
Good. Its not safe here. I only came to Portland because of the dark vibes. I have to know my enemy. Other people come here to find friends, but honestly that's how it starts then they start to trip out. Ain't nobody cool, it's just coming down to world war 3 so I'll remember all these people out here for my own protection. And when they ask for bread I'm gonna ask for them to leave for reals. All you acting up are not getting any treats
You drop your tin foil hat.
leave
Everyone is staying home…. We want to stay home , house parties are huge
Don't know about the numbers. Myself? I haven't slowed down my microbrew intake one iota.
One iota is non-alcoholic. Now, Ray Liotta, there's a good beer.
You mean their shit beer wasnt good enough to remain profitable? Oh no