tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732918973031845770.post694058295503094672..comments2023-06-05T07:56:59.462-05:00Comments on Dallas Beer Snobs: Firewheel Brewing Ceases OperationBon Vivanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04806838873405175688noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732918973031845770.post-46425011975979089752015-11-16T09:37:36.015-06:002015-11-16T09:37:36.015-06:00I appreciate this point of view but wish you'd...I appreciate this point of view but wish you'd be more specific about what you think a 'non-boring' beer might be. I think some of the small batch stuff Petticolas has done lately counts as non-boring but that's just me. Maybe giving a shout out to encourage more risk taking would be more productive than calling folks who are in the arena 'far from enlightened'? Nevertheless, thanks for getting me and maybe other folks thinking.<br /><br />From a purely business standpoint, any new-ish small business/brewery has to reliably pay the bills and that probably requires starting with 'safe' beers that people will buy and then branching out to more esoteric brews. Given this, maybe a better question worth debating is 'At what point CAN/SHOULD a brewer feel confident enough -financially, creatively, culturally - to branch out and build a deeper bench of talent?"<br /><br />I would argue that having at least 4-5 solid choices that consistently sell reasonably well would be a good point at which to begin branching but that seems to be what everybody is already doing so we go back to my original beef with this post: you don't give us any examples of non-boring local beers. If you started listing them and ended up with more than a half dozen then I think it will show that your argument ("Dallas breweries are boring") isn't all that strong. I'm curious to hear what others have to say about this...mcclainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02527283231257934488noreply@blogger.com