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Bagby Beer to Green Cheek

In startling news, Bagby Beer Co. in Oceanside is transitioning into the southernmost Green Cheek location.

You can read the full adieu HERE but this is a big change. Oceanside is a well beer-ed city, Bagby has a large sprawling location which combined with a general craft beer downturn probably laid the groundwork for the change. A type of change that will be happening more often in 2024.

It is too bad as you will tell from today’s other post that I really liked their beers. Solid quality. On the good side of the ledger, Green Cheek is pretty solid too, can’t really quibble with them taking over.

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The Logsdon Shuffle

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Looks like another sale is rockin’ the beer world.  Logsdon and their crazy good farmhouse ales like Peche N Brett has agreed to sell a significant stake in his brewery to three new partners.

I first saw this over at the New School Beer Blog which has all the details and spoke with the players in the drama which will include the departure of brewer Charles Porter who was a founding partner and brewmaster of the company.

My usual response holds true here.  It is time to re-judge the beer now, in a few months and in a year to chart the progress.  That is where the proof of whether a sale has done good or harm can be found.  Not in petty quick judgements.

If it comes as consolation, the namesake Logsdon will be doing quality control and there is no lack of brewing candidates out there who can take over the kettles and maybe push the beer into new and unforeseen directions.

Plus, as I read on The Full Pint, they were approached by ABInBev and found it to be non-workable.  So the hysteria could have been worse.