Here we go again!
Lets' see how good the Doc can do this year.National Beer/Booze Predictions
1. Micro-distilling will continue to rise and will be the next national Trend.
2. Beer Cocktails will continue to grow, as will Cocktail innovation.
3. Food/beer pairings/ beer dinners will continue to grow across the nation.
4. Old Fashion Cocktails will make a come back.
5. Gateway breweries and Brewpubs will pull away from Craft beer innovation to satisfy mainstream tastes rather than beer geeks. They'll be looking for the easy money.
6. Old breweries will continue to sell out to big corps.
7. There will be more defined lines between Beer Geeks and Gateway Craft beer drinkers.
8. A New Beer style or innovation will emerge this year.
9. Over saturation of Gateway beers will begin and we'll see a peak in Price and then a fall.
10. Vintage beers will come to forefront (Finally). A new appreciation of aging and cellaring beer will start to catch hold.
Local Beer Scene
1. A New Food/beer appreciation will start to take hold.2. An Increase in small local Cheese makers will spark interest in Beer and Cheese pairings.
3. New Brew pubs will slow in NW, but gateway Brewpubs will expand in America making all NW beers look even more common place.
4. High end Beers will remain high end and followers will band in elite tribes.
5. One or two small Local Breweries and/or Brew Pubs will fail this year.
6. A large local brewery will have some major difficulties.
7. CDA will never become a Nationally named Style.
8. Spent Grains will find a new life in food or baked products.
9. McMenamins will finally open their Crystal Hotel Downtown, but it'll be a flop.
10. There will be a small resurgence of Lager beers being brewed, but will fall quick because locals can't drink anything that's not deluged in hops.
11. Someone will produce a Beer Dessert or Doughnut that becomes the rage.
12. No one will open a new Beer Pub that caters to Beer Geeks.
13. A local Blogger will show their true colors and it won't be pretty.
4 comments:
If you've never been there, Naked City Brewery and Pub in Seattle's Greenwood Neighborhood is a great place for Beer Geeks. Their in-house beers are decent, but the real magic is the constantly rotating tap list with micros from all over the country. The beer menu can be drastically different from night to night and always has something new and interesting to offer. Keep an eye out for cask nights when a local brewery brings out a cask of their recent creation. You get a chance to sample and talk with the guys that actually brewed it.
Highly Recommended!
Thanks Alex. I've been there. Also, quite a few other great beer pubs in Seattle. Uber Tavern comes to mind.
In your 2010 predictions you stated, "Beer Cocktails will make a short but dying appearance in 2010."
Was that supposed to be true for only 2010, or were you wrong then?
What is a short trend in the beverage and cocktail world? Beer Cocktails are still an oddity. We're still waiting to see if they'll ever make stead fast appearance.
BTW...I'm not frickin Nostradamus! This was all in fun....
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