{"id":8769,"date":"2012-02-13T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2012-02-13T04:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T10:56:00","slug":"brewery-closings-no-trend-here-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/brewery-closings-no-trend-here-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewery closings: no trend here folks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine hundred and five breweries closed between 2000 and 2010, an average of a little over 82 a year. The numbers for 2011 aren&#8217;t in yet, so I couldn&#8217;t include them. Closings ran higher in the front half of those years, but in even the best of them, other than 2010, a brewery closed at least once a week.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m bumfuzzled why my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/\">feed reader<\/a> is full of stories, actually the same story modified here and there, implying that six breweries closing so far this year could be the start of a trend. Hey, maybe 2012 is going to turn out to be a terrible year for small breweries, but it won&#8217;t be because these six breweries closed. (To be clear, I feel bad for the owners, investors and the poor souls who worked at these places. Mostly the people who worked there.)<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how much beer the breweries that closed sold last year. Those numbers are not available yet, but take a look at the 2010 sales listed below. Except for Buckbean, which did not report its production to the Brewers Association (and that might tell us something), so I had to go with 2009. <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>Bavarian Barbarian Brewing&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td> 350<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Buckbean Brewing<\/td>\n<td> 1,050 (2009)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Airdale Brewing<\/td>\n<td> 450 (under contract)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kelley Brothers Brewing<\/td>\n<td> 77<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bee Creek Brewing<\/td>\n<td> 250<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The Local Pub &#038; Brewery<\/td>\n<td>Opened in 2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>So let&#8217;s say that 80 breweries end up closing during 2012 and that they previously produced an average of 750 barrels a year &#151; a number pretty much made up, I admit. So that&#8217;s what? 60,000 barrels out of the system. I&#8217;m pretty sure that Deschutes Brewery alone will grow that much in 2012. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine hundred and five breweries closed between 2000 and 2010, an average of a little over 82 a year. The numbers for 2011 aren&#8217;t in yet, so I couldn&#8217;t include them. Closings ran higher in the front half of those years, but in even the best of them, other than 2010, a brewery closed at &#8230; <a title=\"Brewery closings: no trend here folks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/brewery-closings-no-trend-here-folks\/\" aria-label=\"More on Brewery closings: no trend here folks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2hr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8788,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}