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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 5142192, member: 1414"]
This aligns with what I see in Mass and RI.  I know all about Dudleytown, b/c of my connection to Chris McKinnell at UConn (The Warrens).

The place I linked, Phantom Farms, is brand new, but there is a Phantom Farms restaurant/market place that has been around for years. So they clearly had money at the jump.

Other places I've seen succeed sometimes have a blue collar vibe, like the brewery equivalent of a dive bar.  It can work even in a meh industrial location if you're attracting the after work crowd.  Ravenous Brewing in Cumberland RI is like that.  Very mediocre beer.

Start Line in Hopkinton, MA is doing well, kind of the opposite way.  Lots of corporate types, holiday work parties, good food and decent beer, big location.  It was a farm feed store that started a brewery then the brewery took it over, including greenhouses out back that make a nice winter/outdoor beer garden.

Find a way to appeal to customers, whether it's beer quality, food, atmosphere, music, whatever.
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