I'm admittedly new to brewing (but have been interested in it for years), still working on getting everything together and set up, and also excited about doing so, as well as brewing beer! But I ran across something recently that had me thinking that maybe, just possibly, the end is nigh; I saw a boxed kit for home brewing at.... Target! Now, I've watched brewing and breweries popping onto the scene like popcorn over the last 5-6 years, and it has certainly gone mainstream, especially up here in MN, and probably all over from all I've read around here.
My question is, is this a bubble? A fad? I'm kinda of the opinion that it is, and I'm not sure long term that there will be sufficient demand for all the breweries opening up now. And that isn't because they aren't making good beer, from what I've seen, they are. Thinking back not that many years ago, Martinis were all the rage, were 'cool', and now they've sort of faded back to the background level that they were before the big surge of popularity. My gut feeling is that this is what's going to happen to craft beer in the not too distant future.
Am I off base on this? I honestly hope so, because this is actually fun, but so was investing in the stock market in the mid-late 1990's... We're standing in the dead center of Beer's new Golden Age, so maybe I have it completely wrong, but when I saw that box at Target, I sort of had that Ruh Roh feeling. Love to hear others opinions, especially those that have been around the block a few times, and have seen this rodeo before. Whatcha think?
My question is, is this a bubble? A fad? I'm kinda of the opinion that it is, and I'm not sure long term that there will be sufficient demand for all the breweries opening up now. And that isn't because they aren't making good beer, from what I've seen, they are. Thinking back not that many years ago, Martinis were all the rage, were 'cool', and now they've sort of faded back to the background level that they were before the big surge of popularity. My gut feeling is that this is what's going to happen to craft beer in the not too distant future.
Am I off base on this? I honestly hope so, because this is actually fun, but so was investing in the stock market in the mid-late 1990's... We're standing in the dead center of Beer's new Golden Age, so maybe I have it completely wrong, but when I saw that box at Target, I sort of had that Ruh Roh feeling. Love to hear others opinions, especially those that have been around the block a few times, and have seen this rodeo before. Whatcha think?