LOL Cheesefood!
Well, look at us......... We sometimes pay more for some ingredients for our batches, and go through a lot of headaches sometimes just to make our beer, which you could just go buy in a store. Then again, we make beer that you can't find in the store either most of the times! LOL!
Maybe they're trying to grow tomatoes that you can't buy in the store???? LOL!!!
Actually, I wouldn't care about getting rich. The microbrewery here in Aiken isn't getting rich off the beer they make, they do okay as a resturant. It's a place down town that you can go eat, sit at a bar if you want, and sample their beers they make too (a bit over priced in the few times I've been there).
But 150,000 people. Aiken County has a total pop of about 50,000. I'm not sure what the pop of Augusta is but I think it's like 3 times Aiken City, which is about 30,000, so it comes close to that figure.
Me, I'd just like to break even and the convenience: "Oh man, I need to get some British Crystal 55L! I'll have to run to the LHBS......oh wait, I AM the LHBS!" har, har.