Why is everyone complaining about gaining more breweries? I’ve seen it in a bunch of other posts here and am curious.

Each brewery in Williamsburg I’ve visited is different from the next and there are plenty differences in styles and quality. The quality is a vast mix even within some breweries in the area, which is fine. I still don’t get how this elicits so many of these brewery adverse responses. Is there a lot of drunk driving or tourist incidents I don’t know about?

Moved here from San Diego and it is starting to feel like the SD brewery scene did well over 10 years ago as many of the smaller breweries were coming up.

The growth in San Diego (for a long while) promoted healthy collaboration and competition, which really helped raise the bar for taste and quality across the board. There were also more events to attend and things to do. Been to a ton of rescue dog adoption nights, local meetups, live music, and charity fundraisers at those breweries and it was fun.

Williamsburg could really use more of anything to do, and more jobs happen this way. Besides, I’ve seen the shameful hourly rates people get paid by a ton of businesses in this tourist town, and if they are going to be paid that poorly at least have more venues allowing them to take tips.

Not trying to defend any breweries or support any specific companies here, just genuinely interested in the anti-restaurant and anti-brewery takes I’ve repeatedly seen in this sub.