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Side Project and Hill Farmstead have also been around much before the modern trends in craft beer took off and were able to carve out those niche markets when competition was significantly smaller. The amount of breweries in the US alone has more than doubled since Side Project first opened in 2013.

I opened 3 years ago when the pastry sour, stout and new england IPA craze really went full steam ahead. A new brewery focusing on traditional styles in 2022 has the odds heavily stacked against them.

A good friend of mine that's an extremely talented brewery opened his brewery in 2020 (oof), originally focusing solely on mixed fermentation and barrel beers that are honestly some of the best I've had in the US (his festival invitations alone speak volumes). But he still has to churn out hazy IPAs because that's what keeps his doors open in the market he's in.