re: Fayetteville/NWA craft beer

Lots of new investment is lined up for Emma Ave. We will see if there's enough down there over the next few years to induce white folks to move east of Thompson. E. Springdale has a lot of bad development and cheap apts. That might keep things rather trashy down there. E. Rogers has the lake and downtown Rogers always had better buildings, architecture and town layout than E. Springdale.

Going wet is going to do great things for Rogers and Bentonville over the next five years, I predict.

The other nice thing about downtown Rogers is the 10+ miles of singletrack bike / hike / running trails that are being built 2 blocks from all of this. The trails and breweries in the downtown areas are continuing to attract a lot of attention to these areas.

I'd also like to to see some coop agri parks take form. There were rumors Rogers was going to do one at the recycling center, but nothing has come of it yet. I'd love to see them do these at intersections by 49 where there is a lot of grass typically by bridges. I know insurance companies and lawyers would never let this happen, but it seems like there is a lot of land in these areas that could be better used.

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Bike Rack Brewery opening in late July down off A st I believe.

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Thats cool.

Its supposed to be located on 410 SW A street, thats right across the street from the Farmers Exchange (co-op) 2 blocks north of McGaugh auto parts and Thai Kitchen.

Another Flyer article about the Fayetteville Ale Trail and a recent tour by some regional media:

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Some kind of problem with their licence,and were not filling them yesterday.

What the Ale: LINK

Jacqueline Froelich does KUAF piece on craft beer growler refill stations at convenience stores. Interesting and she also has one of those ASMR fall asleep to NPR voices:

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The Puritan/Fayettechill/Nightbird thing is pretty exciting. That building is getting a much needed facelift from Modus as well (hopefully they don't go nuts on it and manage to preserve the character of the space, though most of the character is in the smokehouse section where they host wedding events).

Core news...

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Core Brewing & Distilling Co. has been on fire since it opened in 2012. In the last 12 months alone it has seen 900 percent growth, which is enough to make the founder’s head spin.

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Catching Up with Core

New tap room in Rogers. Are these guys and Core Architects the same family?

not nwa but i went to the lost 40 and ate a late lunch a few weeks ago and tried their sampler beers. i liked a few of them pretty well. seems like they're doing a good job of at least getting their stuff circulated in central ark. i think the bar thing at the new (moved redone) whole foods is lost 40 and i also saw their beer at several places while i was tooling around there that weekend.