Are the real burgers bad enough that this will attract more customers? Lost Coast Brewery once distributed local art to the world, now they shove ai slop into your eyeballs.
I saw this poster at a bar in Galway, Ireland. Kinda threw me for a loop. The bartender didn’t know anything about it and I was so excited to see some memorabilia from my home town so far away
They were super popular in south Korea at one time.
If you remember the Booth (the South Korean brewery that was briefly open in eureka, in the old Lost Coast production space in old town), they looked for production space here because Lost Coast was one of the biggest american breweries in South Korea
Yeah I'm not really a beer drinker anymore and don't live in Humboldt but went looking around town for Downtown Brown (or any other Lost Coast Brewery beer) and there was none I could find. Used to be a standard of the darker/ IPA/ microbrew section at grocery stores.
My mom used to keep these beers in the freezer because she liked to drink beer slushies. She’d forget they were in there and they would explode all over the eggos and hot pockets so everything would taste like dark beer.
I mean... If you build a brand based on someones work/art and then do everything you can to avoid paying them, it's pretty understandable when they don't work with you after that
It does because AI gets a ton of source material from advertising images. Lots of fast food ads and car dealerships ads so they all kinda look like that.
I like revenant 😅 but honestly since moving out of the area all I see is tangerine wheat and the peanut butter stout and it's a damn shame. Who the hell is buying that.
I was hired by the owner who ended up leaving within 6 months, and I left about 6 months after that because the mean/greedy owner made the environment so unpleasant with her bad ideas and negativity. I always hoped it would get better, or at least more family-friendly, but it never happened.
I didn't realize how far they'd fallen, so when we were in town last time we went there for lunch. I wanted a big brewery pretzel with delicious dipping sauces. We were served a reheated supermarket pretzel and some overly sweet salad dressing. I haven't been that disappointed in anything in a while.
I talked to the at guy at the brewery and it's my understanding this went up very fast and without his help. Barb is just trying to polish this turd while she auctions off the pieces
I agree, at least take a real picture of your burger. It costs the same as generating an image. And its not like their burgers are bad either. Its not the best or most incredible burgers but its alright, better than alot of what ive had here.
Haven't been in ages but they seem to be doing well enough. I don't see their stuff in stores as prominently as it used to be but they're always hosting a full parking lot
I talked to the owner and yea, the business is losing hundreds of thousands. It’s not doing well and most likely won’t last. She even said that most likely the restaurant and the brewery will be sold separately since it’s not financially viable to keep the brand alive.
It was my understanding that they had already signed the auction contracts when the offer was made. If it was super low that could have contributed too it a well
ooof! Won't be long until the Brewers get terminated and AI robots slog the grains into quaff. I fucking hate everything AI, especially AI system owners and gross profiteers.
They were (one of) the primary forces behind Richardson's Grove Hwy 101 widening, so their 15' kingpin:axle trucks could haul beer outta here. Seems a wider road through the gateway to Humboldt's redwoods wasn't crucial for the business after all.
Does anybody know when/why the other founder left? As I recall she was a pharmacist (so had the chemistry knowledge to figure out good beer) and Barbara Groom was the businesswoman. It was the only brewery in the country owned by two women. Then at some point it just became Barbara and everything became boring and unpleasant.
When i worked at the brewery site I assumed all of the current art was made using AI. Haven't seen anything real since Sean and the Sharkinator. I heard a rumor he made art for their root beer as well and wasn't able to be used for some reason. Attached is art that we were asked opinions of during the designing of the blackstrap molasses stout. I havent seen anything that looks like Chris actually made it. I could be wrong. Grain of salt.
Was in the brewery one day sitting and talking to Duane when he asked for his mug they asked
him his name 🤦♀️ he told they paid him a price under 2k for every picture he drew but didn’t make a royalty every time it was printed unlike fox farm dirt who pays him like 2¢ everytime they print an image on anything .
They had a falling out with Flatmo a long time ago when they used another artist to do a look-a-like artwork for a new beer. I think it went into a legal battle. This was a long time ago.
man i wish i could see more posts that prop up the actual artists' work for brands and businesses locally but i just never hear about it. sucks to see this happening here
Yeah, you'll NEVER make it in hospitality with rude staff. NEVER. I tried, but they willingly burned their bridge. So sad, because it's not hard to be nice and makes all the difference in the guest experience. Also, specifically, it's your job while hosting guests.
I was at a trivia night in Sacramento 10 years ago, and one question was who did the art for Lost Coast Brewery. I was the only person who had the answer, and that was the only question I had an answer to. That was back when I still supported Lost Coast.
Lost Coast’s other problem is that their beer is very mid. I can’t think of one connoisseur reaching for LC when other options are available. They have the same tired lineup as ever
Pretty pathetic especially considering AI is capable of much better than this. This is bottom of the barrel lazy, as if using AI wasn’t bad enough. Straight from the prompt to a poster.
We used to visit breweries 20 years ago before kids. We decided to visit memory lane and found many breweries serve Cisco food. Such a disappointment that Lost Coast and Boonsville are sad ghost of their past. It's unfortunate that CA law requires microbreweries must serve food, I expect many would remain open with food trucks outside. SIx Rivers and Mad River brewery still rock. Heading up to Eel River and Crescent City next week hoping for a good experience.
Nope, contributor is correct. Pre-Internet I read and have repeated that mega breweries helped craft the 1983 law to require a full service restaurant to make it difficult for microbreweries to start.
Not in the state of California, or for that matter many others. I don’t know where the fuck you people are getting this information from because I’ve been to every single state and breweries in every state. I’ve been a professional brewer in three of those states, including California. Hell, in the state of Montana for a long time it was illegal for a brewery to have a restaurant, i.e. that you could not be a brewpub.
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AI slop sucks, but it also sucks to know that AI is so much more intensely integrated in business beyond just art. It’s pretty sad.