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| My sojourn to South Dakota has not given me too many insights into the nature of the national beer scene. The state is in a nascent phase of building a market for local beer; to date there are only 14 craft breweries, and most of them are tiny (one that I know of, Gandy Dancer, is so small and provisional one could debate whether it actually exists). Collectively, the entire output of South Dakota’s breweries in 2015 was smaller than Double Mountain’s. Locals are coming around to beer and there’s palpable excitement, but palates are at the porter-and-stout stage* and typical barroom tap ranges include a lot of the old American industrial brands. South Dakota is a farming state, though, and there’s already a fair amount of interest/excitement about the prospect of a local hop industry, and breweries are already talking about making beer with all state-grown ingredients. That could be one of those local tie-ins that really helps power local growth.
But one massive barrier to breweries is … |
Source: Beervana
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