while not being terribly interested or absorbed in the subject, it seems that in this area, back in in the 1940s and 1950s, there were 3 or 4 large breweries servicing this end of my state.. One in Buffalo (Iroquois), another in Rochester (Genesee)..a somewhat smaller one in Dunkirk (Koch's) and another small one in Buffalo (Beck's)
Then came the 1960s and 1970s, when Genesee swallowed up or absorbed the other three brewers..
Then, along came the giants, Budweiser, Miller, LaBatts etc....and I don't know if Genesee is operating anymore, but around here, it is starting to
resemble Germany or Austria, in that each town of any size seems to have a "micro brewery" operating.
Are they any good? I don't know..and I don't know that German beer is any good, while I lived there 2&1/2 years..
Other folks claim it is..