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So Chapman\u2019s is the latest casualty. However, I really don\u2019t think this is quite what it seems, or at least not as simple as the comments that I see from people that know nothing about beer, and who simply declare, \u201cThe Craft Beer Boom is Dead\u201d.<\/p>\n
I have other thoughts (and posts) about the general decline in the industry, and that might be part of the equation here, but I\u2019d bet my life that the much larger issue here is Electric Works itself. There is clearly is an absolutely impossible to manage double-whammy at EW of staggeringly expensive rents\/leases, and a lack of foot traffic. Vendors are paying an absolute fortune to be exposed to hardly any customers. Guess what \u2013 that\u2019s not economically viable! I\u2019m not remotely surprised by this though, and I just don\u2019t think that Fort Wayne has the population or the $ base to support a venture like EW.<\/p>\n
On the whole, Chapman\u2019s beer was solid. Is it the greatest that has ever been brewed? No, but if you understand beer you know that most of it was stylistically correct, and of a commercial standard. The range did a decent job of catering to people like me (the legacy drinker) with traditional styles presented within style parameters, and catering to an entirely different audience with the things that kids (apparently want, or at least the few that drink, want) with the things like sours and hazies.<\/p>\n
Chapman\u2019s did a pretty solid job of not alienating me, which today is a minor miracle. The space that they occupied was not to my liking \u2013 industrial chic (if that\u2019s what it is) leaves me oh so cold \u2013 but I could tolerate that for a pint of Valiant which I\u2019ve enjoyed for the last eight years starting in Columbia City back in the day. I\u2019m sorry to see them go.<\/p>\n
Chapman\u2019s demise is a great shame to me personally since I\u2019ve come to know Scott and Zach<\/a> a little in the last couple of years. They are honest folk with an interest in beer. I have no inside track on what\u2019s next for Chapman\u2019s \u2013 (I\u2019m largely uninterested in any \u2018new, exciting concept\u2019 in that space at EW) \u2013 but there is an expensive, state of the art brew system sitting idle right now. It\u2019s hard for me to believe that will be abandoned long term. Chapman\u2019s absolutely<\/em> has a model to operate on a smaller scale, in a more community based brewery, and has the track-record to prove it. There must be a space in FW that will work for them, somewhere, somehow. I honestly hope this happens, we can\u2019t have producers of traditional beer going by the wayside like this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So Chapman\u2019s is the latest casualty. However, I really don\u2019t think this is quite what it seems, or at least not as simple as the comments that I see from people that know nothing about beer, and who simply declare, \u201cThe Craft Beer Boom is Dead\u201d. I have other thoughts (and posts) about the general […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7068100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[38402,38403,11737,26391],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7068099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beer","tag-chapmans-brewing-co","tag-chapmans","tag-closing","tag-fort-wayne"],"yoast_head":"\n
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