Beer questions...

Good police work...catch the drunks there.

This is a pilot program. Still feeling it out.

They are using one of the apparel booths, with no keg dispensers on bar tops (keeping cost down to start). Beer is from bottles, but poured into cups.

They are serving Angry Orchard (ehh), Budweiser, Bud Light, Coors Light, Miller Light. Probably a good choice to start with low octane beers. A beer costs $5, and you can only take two at a time.

The problem is that the booth is very slow. They ID you every time, take your cash or card, then pull the bottles and pour each beer.

I would have ID verification done once with a wrist band, like at concert venues. Invest into bar tops with keg delivery system to pour beers quicker, and when demand is understood, pre-pour beers so they can be grabbed quicker.

I think BSU has not invested into streamlining this process until they understand a few things. It could have some great potential. I would add wine as well. Some folks cannot have hops or barley products for medical reasons.

Also, Wolves Head (Heorot), Thr3e Wise Men (well, kinda, as I don't think they actually brew in Muncie).  Problem with all listed is that none of the Muncie breweries package in cans/bottles (which seems to be the current option).  That's why I listed Sun King, but could be Central State, Flat 12, etc.  Until they can serve from a jockey box or something, they likely won't switch to kegs.  And I totally understand that "beer for the common folk" line (though most local breweries brew a pale lager or kolsch as well).  I don't begrudge people for drinking what they like, be it Bud or whatever (though I really don't care for the lobbying they do to hamper local brewery growth, but I digress).  Sure, serve one or two pale lagers, but there are 120+ beer styles in the world...  Even if you are just sticking to macro, mix in some other popular styles...  Blue Moon, Goose Island (312, pale or ipa), etc.  I know I would have a real uphill battle on this point, but to serve the list they serve is like serving 5 varieties of chardonnay as your only wine options.  That would never fly for wine folks (who want variety, and where you usually see smaller wine lists have one per style for maybe 5-6 different styles), but for some reason it will fly for the beer folk (where way too many places only carry several varieties of macro pale lager).  No problem when I run into this...  I generally just drink water in those cases.  Just always catches me as odd.

Sorry, beer nerdism shining through, and I'm not at all in a position to have skin in the game as I rarely get to drive up for a game.  More that I like the idea of supporting local businesses over multi-national conglomerates based in Belgium...