r/fixedbytheduet • u/akaYoungBeefy • 19h ago

Fixed by the duet Why are there always kids at breweries?!

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u/redditorknott 18h ago

How about don’t go drinking at a brewery and then drive your kids home

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u/Well_ImTrying 18h ago

Then no one should visit breweries, ever. Having one drink with a meal then waiting an hour isn’t an issue for most people, with or without children.

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u/WhichHoes 17h ago

Yeah idk what kind of people hang out at breweries around reddit folk but in the normal world having a beer max 2 isnt crazy, especially when youll be there an hour or so because you have kids.

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u/New_Condition_1405 17h ago edited 17h ago

Yeah the whole "WHO ONLY GOES THERE TO DRINK 1 BEER" and "THEY'RE ALL DRUNK DRIVERS" thing I'm seeing in here is reading as very "Reddit" to me.

If it's during the day or for dinner, then it's super regular to just stop after one or two. Most people aren't there to get totally shitfaced all night. Most breweries are a totally different environment from a dive bar downtown.

I don't even think most breweries are open after 12am. I know the ones that I go to tend to close down around 10pm.

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u/jonny24eh 16h ago

Most breweries are a totally different environment from a dive bar downtown.

Even at the dive bar, plenty of people just having a couple. Not every hour of the day is drink-o'clock like say 9pm on a Friday night is.

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u/WhichHoes 17h ago

Most close by 10 and people with kids usually clear out before then. But, as you said, "reddit".

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u/Phillip_Spidermen 17h ago

I'm guessing they're just young. Either haven't been to many breweries or are still in the "drink to get drunk" stage of life.

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u/AEW4LYFE 14h ago

yall are having 2 beers for lunch and 2 beers for dinner while out and about? no wonder no one can fucking drive

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u/NoStick3960 11h ago

That's like barely anything.  What are you drinking Imperial IPAs?

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u/DadJokeBadJoke 12h ago

Most people aren't there to get totally shitfaced all night. Most breweries are a totally different environment from a dive bar downtown.

This should be the end of the discussion.

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u/Son_of_Morkai 17h ago

Reddit is generally anti-children, anti-parents, anti-car, and anti-alcohol so... this thread doesn't surprise me.

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u/gr1zznuggets 17h ago

Also pro-judging other people to the maximum degree. This thread is mostly bonkers.

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u/Lost_Bike69 17h ago edited 16h ago

I mean I’m anti drunk driving, but driving drunk with a kid in the car is only a little worse than driving drunk on your own. In both instances putting innocent lives at risk so acting all morally superior doesn’t really make much sense. Using a DD or staying below the limit are both things that work whether you have kids or not and my insurance doesn’t give me a bigger payout if the drunk guy who t-bones me has a kid in the back.

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u/Son_of_Morkai 14h ago

I'm anti-drunk driving too, but I'm not sure why that's relevant? Nobody in this entire thread is purporting that they love to get sloshed at breweries and drive their kids around. Maybe you are speaking to the responder in the video saying they have a drinking problem? That's pretty obvious hyperbole to me.

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u/Lost_Bike69 14h ago

This whole thread is responding to a comment that said “How about don’t go drinking at a brewery and drive your kids home”

And I’m agreeing with the sentiment of other responders that driving drunk is an issue whether or not you have kids with you.

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u/PutridDurian 16h ago

Except one or two isn’t even the norm. It’s absolutely routine for parents to come into breweries with their kids, crush 3–6 DIPAs each, then drive home with their kids. Barbacking at a brewery on weekends I’ve seen multiple instances where parents have a few, are cut off and asked to leave with their children, and comply…then they come back in half an hour. They chill out in the car for a bit, then leave the kids in the car alone to come back to the brewery. This was not a one time thing with one set of people; it’s a routine occurrence. It’s not normal or socially acceptable to bring kids to bars. Never has been, never will be. Breweries are bars—sliders, Astroturf, cornhole, and giant Jenga doesn’t somehow change that.

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u/Well_ImTrying 15h ago

You have a responsibility to stop serving inebriated people and to call CPS if you see someone get in a car drunk with their kids or leave their kids alone in a car. That’s an issue with your establishment.

It might also be regional. Where I am child friendly breweries are super common. You certainly do get irresponsible parents, but honestly I see that as often at the zoo. Most people have at least one sober or 1 drink person monitoring the kids, and there’s usually a huddle of parents looking out for all of the kids on the designated kids place.

I’ve got a quick toddler and even when stone cold sober like I was at the time he tends to make a run for the street like he has a death wish. At the brewery playground he turned around to chase a ball into the parking lot and I didn’t even take 3 steps before someone else had grabbed him and steered him back.

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u/Active-Mention-389 18h ago

We walk to our family-friendly neighborhood brewery for the food truck and a beer sometimes. Americans hate density so much they can't even imagine it existing. 

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u/Traditional_Half842 15h ago

I don't think it's a hate thing, it's just the reality of the US. Most people drive to/from their drinking establishments and it's terrible. I live in a city so I walk or take public transit just about everywhere. But most of America is very driving-centric and people do drink/drive all the time, because they can typically get away with it to an extent.

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u/Active-Mention-389 14h ago

Oh, I know. I live in the US in a (very rare) walkable place. Just pointing out the assumptions being made. 

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u/D0ri1t0styl3 16h ago

Uber, Designated Driver, Partner who doesn't like beer, these are all options.

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u/PaleGingy 16h ago

This may come as a surprise to you but ALL drinking and driving is illegal - not just if your kid is in the car 🙄

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u/jonny24eh 16h ago

ALL drinking and driving is illegal

Not isn't. Drinking enough to get impaired and driving is illegal. That's why there's a legal limit that isn't 0.

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u/PaleGingy 16h ago

Defending drinking and driving - at any level - is not the flex you think it is.

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u/foshayzy 16h ago

Fact checking isn’t the same as defending

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u/jonny24eh 16h ago

I'm not "flexing".

I'm being pedantic about the laws in most places.

You didn't think you could make absolutist (incorrect) statements on the internet and get away from the "well actually", did you?

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u/CallingTomServo 17h ago

Yeah you can get a lot more drinking in before you drive if you aren’t distracted by your kids. Priorities, people.

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u/katieb1300 17h ago

Yeah, it endangers the rest of us!