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someone trying to make a quick buck i have no problem with the trading community so long as traders don t begin to crowd out our local customers and in fact am very flattered to see our beers end up all over the country but when someone buys our beers to try to flip them for financial gain you ve completely gone against what we are about posted by scott metzger may 29 2012 categories beer industry beer laws craft beer ethics integrity la muerta the way scott responds to people 1 comment beer reform your city would you trust a high end restaurant whose wine list consisted only of white zinfandel out of a box then why would you trust the same restaurant if their beer list consisted of nothing but industrial light lagers and mega brand imports at least as much as wine though i d argue even more so craft beer offers a wide and diverse range of flavor profiles that when smartly employed can greatly enhance a dining experience the chef who ignores craft beer is the equivalent of the chef who thinks prego is good enough for his sauces time to hold chef s to a higher standard as reported by beer business daily from 2009 to 2011 the number of breweries in the us increased by 22 and the number of available packages increased by 25 meanwhile shelf space increased by only 3 6 on premise dining will play a huge role in the future growth of craft beer the brewers association s julie herz notes that in 2010 only 169 of the top 250 restaurant chains features craft beer on their menus highlighting the growth potential available in this segment it doesn t surprise me however that craft beer is slow to make inroads as massive chains like chili s economies of scale dictate centralized buying decisions for big chains which in turn makes them slow to respond to trends even if in the case of craft beer the trend has been going on for over a decade that doesn t mean it can t be done even applebee s edit spelled applebee s wrong showing how much i go to applebee s is starting to take a per location based approached to their beer list making the effort to focus on local brands major win my beef is with the artisan chefs who are often locally celebrated these chefs are the respected as innovators and pure representations of a community s local flavor and terroir sadly i see far too many of them with beer lists that look like an orwellian blend of a 1970 s suburban sports bar and a college frat party why do we accept this as consumers not only do they do a disservice to their cuisine and clientele but insofar as they are viewed as culinary leaders they set a poor example for other restaurants in their community major fail reform your city today i m announcing my personal quest to reform the beer landscape in my town san antonio i won t stop until all of my city s top restaurants and most celebrated chefs are smartly featuring craft beer if a chef or beverage program manager feels lost in the world of craft beer i personally volunteer my services to help you establish a quality beer program note i can t legally sell you beer from my own brewery so there is no secret agenda here it doesn t have to be expansive to be respectable it doesn t have to require a single cent of capital investment if you are serving any beer at your establishment now we can transform your beer list if you want to enlist my services or just to report your progress in featuring craft beer tweet me beermonkey or shoot me an email at news at freetailbrewing dot com i ll establish and maintain a webpage with list of craft beer friendly restaurants and happily feature you on it consumers challenge your favorite chefs to be part of reform in san antonio non san antonians start a similar campaign in your city together we can do this cheers scott posted by scott metzger march 13 2012 categories craft beer 16 comments texas beer the 2015 challenge we are texas and our star shines bright as of december 31 2011 texas was home to 71 licensed small craft breweries which for the purposes of my analysis include breweries less than 75 000 barrels of annual production up from 47 just a year earlier that number includes 34 brewpubs up from 28 at year end 2010 and 37 production breweries almost double from the 19 licensed production breweries at the end of 2010 in 2011 texas small craft brewers produced 130 thousand barrels of beer compared to 93 thousand just the previous year the growth of our industry has been amazing and has not gone unnoticed yet i submit to you the following proclamation we are underachieving 31 texas counties are home to a small craft brewery but that s out of 254 not good enough that 130 thousand barrels produced by texas small craft brewers that represents a paltry 1 2 of the craft beer industry and a pathetic 0 06 market share in the overall us beer market not good enough those 71 small breweries we still rank 46th in breweries per capita in the us not good enough since i only speak on behalf of myself and my brewery i won t call the following list a set of goals instead let s call them a challenge by 2015 i challenge texas to the following be home to 160 actively licensed small craft breweries produce 250 000 barrels of beer from small craft breweries have a small craft brewery in 40 texas counties this one is admittedly harder since breweries tend to open in more populated areas for obvious reasons these three challenges are achievable but it will take the effort of numerous parties to be successful i m challenging the following groups to do their part texas small craft brewers your challenge is obvious texas beer distributors you are our ally in the growth of the industry and our growth cannot happen without you commit to carrying and featuring texas brands texas beer retailers you are the front line abandon the old school way of retailing beers and the intimidating walls of industrial light lager give brewers a fair and equitable display with no unfair preference to brands who kick you illegal incentives provide consumers easy clear access to the brands they want texas legislators you are challenged with the task of establishing fair competitive industry reforms that allow texas small craft brewers to grow their brands that means allowing production breweries to establish tasting rooms and sell directly to consumers on premise and allowing brewpubs to sell into the wholesale tier there is almost 1 billion in economic impact at stake for helping texas meet the 2015 challenge based on my annual economic impact study latest version to be published in march april texas beer consumers you have the best job in achieving the challenge continue drinking and supporting texas small craft brewers together we can do this share the message of the 2015 challenge with friends colleagues industry members and anyone you know who cares about texas craft beer drink beer save texas posted by scott metzger february 28 2012 categories beer industry beer laws craft beer tabc texas beer freedom texas breweries 6 comments aleheads podcast wanna hear me talk about stuff i didn t think so in any event if you feel like hearing my opinion on freetail beer trading texas laws the craft beer industry and dinosaurs you can listen here http aleheads com 2012 02 03 the aleheads podcast scott metzger freetail brewing co cheers posted by scott metzger february 3 2012 categories beer industry craft beer dinosaurs freetail tabc leave a comment what are you trying to say web traffic of this site over the last 5 days what are you guys trying to say posted by scott metzger january 31 2012 categories uncategorized 2 comments my vendors are funny this arrived today unsolicited from one of my merch vendors thanks brewery branding posted by scott metzger january 27 2012 categories dinosaurs freetail the way scott responds to people 3 comments no really though i do not like groupon for whatever reason the people at groupon think that repeatedly sending a different person to call email me will eventually result in me submitting to their corrosive program that hurts small businesses i m tired of responding politely so here was my latest exchange with the rep assigned to me and yes before you point it out i m quite aware of how childish i am click photos to enlarge to mitch s credit he tried to stoop to my ridiculously low level and respond with a graph of his own unfortunately i have no clue what this graph is trying to say or if it says anything at all i won t bother responding because i m out of graphs in which i can convey no thank you posted by scott metzger january 26 2012 categories freetail the way scott responds to people 22 comments one last word on dinosaurs and lawyers i wanted to say one last thing about dinosaurs and lawyers since messages keep pouring in from numerous channels about the letter i posted this to beeradvocate com and hopefully helps explain things a bit warning this response is likely to be far less entertaining than anything else you could possibly be doing first of all i didn t think the letter would get shared the way it did i posted it for kicks on my personal twitter where i don t have that many followers because i m not really that important and or cool my friends would agree i don t have anything against steelhead brewery the lawyer in question or our mail woman who delivered the c d letter actually i don t really like our mail woman she refuses to deliver the mail on mondays and she always sticks packages into a box where the key doesn t work delaying the delivery of said package until i can flag her down to open it for me but i digress unfortunately i have way more familiarity with intellectual property law than i ever cared for i ve been on the receiving end of c ds even one from a brewery that to my knowledge still has never produced a single beer none of which i ve ever fought because i ve never cared enough to i ve also been on the sending end of one c d for the brand we are most known for which we issued after a number of conversations with the brewery in question and before they had ever produced a single drop of the potentially infringing beer an important characteristic of trademark law is that trademarks are very costly to protect because ip lawyers are really proud of themselves and charge commensurately i have one of the nation s best ip firms representing me but i hope to never write them another check my ip lawyer who isn t the one who advised me to draw the dinosaur nor was he ever involved in this situation is a nice guy but i m no rockefeller or even jay z i need to save my pennies to make more beer so even if you win a lawsuit it could cost you tens of thousands of dollars as small businesses can we even really call this winning the money i spent on my ip lawyer the one time we got involved in issuing and c d and negotiating the actual cessation of the use could and should have been spent on something much more productive in the brewery a few clarifications just because i m anal like that 1 freetail has never made a beer called hopasaurus rex we have a page for hopasaurus rex on our webpage but is it meant to describe a process we occasionally used on ipas and actually we ve used it on non ipas too most people don t know much about hopasaurus rex because we haven t done it a lot and even when we have we haven t always pointed out we re doing it here is the official description for what we formerly called hopasaurus rex once thought to be extinct the hopasaurus rex is occasionally sighted on the outskirts of san antonio gobbling up ipas as they make their way to the taps and instead sending forth a transformed version of hop gloriousness his belly full of whole leaf northwestern hops this beast s mark is often described with terms like pine citrus and grapefruit the hopasaurus does not discriminate in his ipa diet so long as the ibus quench his thirst what all that mumbo jumbo really says is hopasaurus rex is an inline hop filter of sorts we stick a 5 gallon corny keg of whole leaf hops between the serving tank and the tap for some extra hop character so really sam and dogfish head owe us a c d letter too sam if you are reading this i will buy you some beers and let you slug me 10 times in the arm for borrowing the idea of randall 2 i can t believe this thread has gone on this long without someone making fun of our webpage that was a gimme anyway we have a new one coming soon shameless plug 3 i m fortunate to have one of the coolest jobs i can think of running a brewery someone previously mentioned this was kind of childish and i agree i m kind of childish i like to joke around i m lucky that being childish isn t a complete detriment to my job but it frustrates the hell out of our local brewers news writer because he can t tell if my updates are serious or not 4 soapbox alert i think a lot of our country s problems could be solved if people especially elected officials would sit down over a beer and interact more with one another instead of immediately resorting to legal options in an ideal world disputes like this should be handled as follows brewery a hey you have a beer the same name as our trademarked beer can you stop brewery b sure sorry about that brewery a cool can we get this in writing just so we have a paper trail brewery b sure amigo let s meet up at the next gabf or cbc and share a beer 5 as we approach and maybe have passed by now 2 000 operating breweries in the united states these disputes are inevitable especially since there is a finite number of lame hop puns to be used sometimes i get sad when i don t think of them first but i move on i was going to keep this list going but i m out of stuff to say thanks to everyone in this thread for supporting craft beer hugs not drugs beers instead of tears scott ps texas rules i appreciate everyone s words of support but i want to stress that the letter was just me having a little fun again i really do have nothing against the other brewery and i hope it continues to get support from visitors and its local community support your local brewery no matter where it is scott posted by scott metzger january 15 2012 categories freetail 6 comments older entries recent pots economic impact of texas craft brewing industry drink beer save texas gearing up for 2013 please do not buy freetail beers on ebay beer reform your city texas beer the 2015 challenge aleheads podcast what are you trying to say my vendors are funny no really though i do not like groupon one last word on dinosaurs and lawyers of dinosaurs and dealing with lawyers bottling line update hurry up wait 2011 rewind beer industry predictions for 2012 crafting better businsess insights from the craft beer industry chairman of senate business and commerce committee reacts archives archives select month july 2012 1 june 2012 1 may 2012 1 march 2012 1 february 2012 2 january 2012 7 december 2011 6 november 2011 2 october 2011 2 august 2011 1 july 2011 2 may 2011 2 april 2011 4 march 2011 19 february 2011 24 january 2011 21 november 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