Bold City Brewery to open second location downtown

[spuwho]

I am not a beer drinker, but I am glad to see this happening to downtown.

Let me know if they come up with a root beer though. I love craft root beers.

[coredumped]

This is awesome, by far my fav. brewery in town. I've met the owners a few times (they even did a publix aprons cooking event) and they seem real nice.
Here you see the ripple effect of Cowford opening, and other things opening near it. Imagine what would happen around the trio if it was underway.

Best of luck to them. Hope to be warming a bar stool soon!

[mtraininjax]

WTF are you talking about?  Intuition has absolutely maxed out their current location and need something larger.  Bold City started in a larger building and has been able to lease more space, so this is just a way for them to branch out.  Both breweries are joining in the effort to revitalize downtown, but Intuition needs more space anyway so they are killing 2 birds with one stone.  Stop trying to pick fights you know nothing about.

WTF are you talking about? Intuition plans on abandoning its home in Riverside for digs downtown. So effectively turning its back on the neighborhood. Yet Bold City is keeping its current space and tap room and customers locally in Riverside. I don't give two birds about downtown, it won't be decided with 2 more breweries opening up space. When the chips are down, the Millers decided to stay in Riverside, Ben Davis has weaseled his way out....

[whyisjohngalt]

Ben Davis should be allowed to move his business wherever he wants to without being accused of "turning its back on" and being a "weasel".

[tufsu1]

An argument could be made that Riverside abandoned Intuition. After all, some in the neighborhood have made it very difficult for the brewery to expand and serve the community

[Tacachale]

Intuition outgrew its space and is moving to a larger, better located space within a few miles of the old one. Success of a homegrown business is something to celebrate, not whinge about.

[Captain Zissou]

An argument could be made that Riverside abandoned Intuition. After all, some in the neighborhood have made it very difficult for the brewery to expand and serve the community

This is the more accurate statement.  Ben & Cari did everything they could to embrace Riverside and Avondale and be a good neighbor, but the neighborhood did not give them the same courtesy.  That's largely irrelevant, however, because the reason for the move is that they completely built out their existing property and need more room. Riverside doesn't have a space that meets their new needs.  I'm enjoying watching mtrain's descent into insanity.  Very interesting stuff.

[thelakelander]

Lol. First time I've seen someone referred to as weaseling out for giving their company a chance to grow, in a manner that also improves the core of the city.

[PeeJayEss]

Also, it's hard to get these scaredy cats from the east side of town over into what they think is the "hood" in Riverside. Seriously, half the people in Aardwolf probably think it's the first brewery in town. Not saying these people will come downtown normally either, but they might hang out at Intuition on a game day.

[blizz01]

It's like when a Christian singer goes mainstream......

[Steve]

Also, it's hard to get these scaredy cats from the east side of town over into what they think is the "hood" in Riverside. Seriously, half the people in Aardwolf probably think it's the first brewery in town. Not saying these people will come downtown normally either, but they might hang out at Intuition on a game day.

Preach. Totally agree, and I can confirm the Aardwolf thing (heard it firsthand there). Personally, I think the beer at Bold City and Intuition is better than Aardwolf (Aardwolf seems to think every beer must be hoppy IMO but different strokes I guess).

It seems obvious that Intuition's spot at the sports complex will be larger than Bold City's on Bay St. Plus, I do feel like (purely anecdotal) that Intuition has a larger following than Bold City, so a relatively quiet location (think about Bay and APR when nothing is going on at The Stadium/Arena/Ballpark/Metro Park) might be better for them. I don't know that Bold City could do what Intuition is doing.

On the other hand, Bold City should have a lot of activity to feed off of, given what's around them. It's a great opportunity to get the public introduced to Bold City's beers and then attract people to the other location off Rosselle.

[MEGATRON]

WTF are you talking about?  Intuition has absolutely maxed out their current location and need something larger.  Bold City started in a larger building and has been able to lease more space, so this is just a way for them to branch out.  Both breweries are joining in the effort to revitalize downtown, but Intuition needs more space anyway so they are killing 2 birds with one stone.  Stop trying to pick fights you know nothing about.

WTF are you talking about? Intuition plans on abandoning its home in Riverside for digs downtown. So effectively turning its back on the neighborhood. Yet Bold City is keeping its current space and tap room and customers locally in Riverside. I don't give two birds about downtown, it won't be decided with 2 more breweries opening up space. When the chips are down, the Millers decided to stay in Riverside, Ben Davis has weaseled his way out....

Mr. Davis may need a restraining order.  Your fascination with him is out of control.