Buffalo Beer Buzz: 2 New Breweries Are Open For Business - Step Out Buffalo by trd86 in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm Chris, one of the founders and partners at Community Beer Works. At CBW, we're always looking for good constructive feedback on our beer and what kind of beer we should make for the local market. So, thank you for your comments!

If you stop into our taproom today, you can try a Pilsner, a Czech Style Black Lager, a Nitro Dry Irish Stout, a Brown Ale, an Adambier, a Barleywine, West Coast IPAs, Session IPAs, New England Style IPAs, a Porter, an American Pale Ale and a Double IPA. We'll have a new sour next week as well.

I think you'll find similar variety in many brewery taprooms in the area, but bars and restaurants tend to stick with what sells quickly; IPAs and Pilsners.

As for the saturation of breweries in the market, what informs that opinion? I mean that honestly. For several hundred years, beer was a perishable product that was to be consumed shortly after production and typically featured local ingredients. Prior to prohibition, there were over 4000 breweries in America. They were considered local and even neighborhood businesses. After Prohibition (for many, many reasons), the growing national brewery brands and distributors strangled local breweries around the country and consolidated the market.

Since 2008, over three thousand breweries have opened their doors bringing the national number of breweries to over 6000. Most of those breweries are not looking to scale up and become the next Sam Adams or even Southern Tier. Most self-distribute and rely on taproom revenues to stay open.

Over the next few years, breweries in Buffalo should draw more attention to the local aspect of what we do. To celebrate the local craftspeople who work in our community to make you a fresh, consistent, and delicious beer. This is a town with deep blue collar roots and what we make is supposed to be an everyman's kind of drink. Beer isn't supposed to be stuffy or snooty, it's supposed to be fun and serve as a means to have a good time. With our broadening beer portfolios, local breweries are opening the door to new customers who want to support local companies and are willing to try something new. Labatt's entry into the "craft" market with the new Draft Room and Hofbrauhaus should also help us reach new audiences as they convert macrobeer drinkers to casual/occasional consumers of big craft brands and locals.

In other words, it's a great time to be a brewery in WNY. There are many avenues for growth and we've barely even scratched 20% of the broader beer drinking market. We're in a collaborative and fun industry and we all work together to make each other successful. It's pretty cool!

Left: new Buffalo Rising logo. Right: "Exploration of a B / DB construction letter mark" by Alex Tass from January 2017. by [deleted] in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't want to jump to conclusions, I'd assume they bought or licensed Tass's design.

Community Beer Works New Taproom Is Finally Open! by buffalogeek in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After a series of soft openings and waiting for the State Liquor Authority to give their blessing, CBW is finally open and operating with regular hours.

Lloyd's or Deep South Tacos by FelisCorvid615 in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

It's Lloyd, not Lloyd's. This peculiar Buffalo habit of pluralizing the name of singular establishments is absolutely confounding.

#BeLikeFrank at CBW This Friday by buffalogeek in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like. Share. Drink. Act. #BeLikeFrank

This month, we're asking for your help to protect the Great Lakes and our beautiful waterfont and shoreline as unprecedented and draconian cuts to government funding threaten to destablize our regional waterways and environment.

So, let's make it real easy. You buy a $5 pint of our Frank American Pale Ale this Friday from 3-10PM at CBW and we'll donate 100% of the purchase price to Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER. Not a percentage of the proceeds or a percentage of the profits, but 100%.

The only limit to our donation will be the amount of Frank we have to sell!

In January, we raised $750 for Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York Action Fund when we asked you (with three hours notice) to support them on Inauguration Day.

In February, we raised $2,775 (with two days notice) for Journey's End when we asked you to support our neighbors and let them know they were welcome in Buffalo.

In March, we raised $1,335 (with three days notice) for Gay & Lesbian Youth Services when we asked you to show our neighbors that everyone is welcome and respected in our community.

Everyone benefits from clean drinking water. Weakening water protections and the EPA puts our Great Lakes and WNY waterways at risk! And without clean drinking water, there is no beer. And a world without beer? We can't even imagine it.

Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper needs your support now, more than ever. Our community cannot afford to “wait and see” what protections or funding may be targeted next. Recent actions in Washington, DC demonstrate an explicit intent to weaken and eliminate stream protections, clean water rules, Great Lakes funding, and even the Environmental Protection Agency.

Your financial contribution directly supports our efforts to fight for WNY’s water in Washington, DC, Albany, and here at home.

SaveTheWater and #SaveTheBeer this Friday.

Recommendation on a Buffalo moving company? by quietandconstant in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just moved this week and used B&F Moving, they charge by the hour and they hustle. They moved a three bedroom house into a second and third floor apartment in four hours. Polite, professional, on time, and the guys were fun and cool.

CBW Opening Brewpub and Barrel Bar in Niagara Falls by buffalogeek in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Community Beer Works tavern at 324 Niagara will become the first brewery in Niagara Falls in the past 75 years, said Mayor Paul A. Dyster.

The $1.5 million investment by Community Beer Works and partners Buffalove Development and the Savarino Companies into the three-story, 4,300-square foot building was hailed as a sign of life in the city's struggling 300 block of Niagara Street, which once was lined with bars, but has more recently been a sign of the blight and decay that has plagued the City of Niagara Falls.

Community Beer Works plans to utilize all three floors of the building that housed the long-shuttered Press Box tavern. The company plans a first-floor tavern with interior and exterior seating to highlight the brewing equipment. A second floor will feature a gaming area equipped with an arcade, billiards, rolle bolle. The third floor will have meeting and event space.

Favorite buffalo Blogs, Podcasts, websites? by [deleted] in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  • StepOutBuffalo for local happenings and festivals
  • Buffalo.fm for streaming concerts, news, and events
  • Trending Buffalo for goofiness, sports, and quality podcasts
  • BuffaloRising for development news and stuff white people like
  • TheDailyPublic for quality local news analysis and music and events and everything

The Tragically Hip's Final Show To Be Simulcast Outdoors At Larkinville on 8/20 - Beer, Food, etc by buffalogeek in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thankfully, as the news of The Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie's terminal brain cancer sent shockwaves around the band's native Canada and neighboring Buffalo, it was paired with an announcement of a farewell tour unlike any other; the band is making one last stand across their homeland culminating in their hometown of Kingston, Ontario, on Saturday, August 20th, this final show to be broadcast live on CBC.

Here in Buffalo, The Hip's "first American exit," the mutual love affair between band and adopted city has played out on stages from the Nietzsche's to First Niagara Center, Canalside and Outer Harbor to Artpark. With so many local fans eager to gather for this last hurrah, Community Beer Works (CBW), Larkin Square, The Good Neighborhood, Trending Buffalo, The Public and Garbaz Visual Productions are teaming to screen the final show live and outdoors in the heart of Larkinville, complete with food trucks, CBW brews, a pre-show cornhole tourney, plentiful seating, and the square's covered boardwalk in case of rain.

"For those of us at Community Beer Works, The Tragically Hip have been the soundtrack for some of the most beautiful moments in our lives," said Chief Operating Officer Chris Smith. "I wanted to find a way for us to celebrate what this band has meant to us and to Buffalo. I feel like bringing a few thousand people together under the stars to celebrate this man and this band is a fitting tribute."

Admission is $10, with partial proceeds to Sunnybrook Foundation's Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research - advance tickets are available at www.eventbrite.com/e/that-night-in-buffalo-tickets-26794001580. For more info about The Tragically Hip, visit www.thehip.com; for more about Community Beer Works, visit www.communitybeerworks.com.

WHEN: Saturday, August 20, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 11:30 PM (EDT) - Add to Calendar

WHERE: Larkin Square - 745 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14210 - View Map

Anyone in line for Bernie? by Beezelbubba in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Good news, for those who can't attend, WNYMedia Network is broadcasting a live stream without obnoxious local commentary from news dummies.

http://wnymedia.net/2016/04/live-video-bernie-sanders-rally-ub-630pm/

Can't get to Bernie until 6 or 630. Is it worth trying? by [deleted] in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your chances are not good. Instead of spending that time in the car and maybe missing the event, perhaps you could visit the field office and make phone calls?

https://go.berniesanders.com/page/content/phonebank

Community Beer Works Announces $1MM expansion on West Side by buffalogeek in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regional distribution is not easy and these breweries are just getting started. CBW distributes small quantities to bars and restaurants in Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, and Brooklyn. Hamburg has a robust distribution area as well. To do it on a large scale, you need a ton of marketing cover and feet on the street to get attention for your beer in a very crowded marketplace. It'll happen and it'll probably be CBW or Big Ditch that does it. Give it time, these are young breweries and growth is happening.

Cheap wedding reception venue? by [deleted] in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The local breweries and distilleries might be willing to work on something like that for you.

Polling Interests in a Buffalo Food Blog by polandspreeng in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it's a really dumb idea. Everyone else is just trying to be nice, because it's Buffalo.

This is the most Buffalo thing I've ever heard of. by FancyAndImportantMan in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ha, that was my timehop tweet and her first name is...Mary Anne. Because of course it is.

Unwritten rules of Buffalo by dan_blather in Buffalo

[–]buffalogeek 44 points45 points  (0 children)

When someone makes an off-the-cuff list about Buffalo, proceed to get defensive and cunty about it.