{"id":6245,"date":"2009-03-09T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6245"},"modified":"2009-03-09T08:25:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T15:25:31","slug":"the-bean-snowboards-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6245","title":{"rendered":"The Bean Snowboards Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/b951fde7e9-bean2-03092009jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/b951fde7e9-bean2-03092009jpg.jpeg','popup','width=315,height=275,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/b951fde7e9-bean2-03092009-tm.jpg\" height=\"174\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"B951Fde7E9 Bean2 03092009.Jpg\" \/><\/a><strong>Collin Murray<\/strong>, <strong>Mike McGraw<\/strong>,<strong> Brian Callan<\/strong>, and <strong>Scott Petrichko<\/strong> are <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beansnowboarding.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bean Snowboards<\/a><\/strong>: Boston&#8217;s snowboard micro-brewery. And, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/business\/general\/view\/2009_03_06_snowboards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, they are &#8220;proudly spreading the word that their boards are &#8216;Made in Boston.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By hosting numerous demo days and rail jams at Blue Hills, which is only a few miles from downtown Boston, Bean is trying to build a local riding community that takes pride in a homegrown board, commented Callan. . . . It\u2019s a business model that has worked well for some small West Coast board companies, but might be tough to duplicate in New England, where brands like Burton, Ride and Rome dominate. \u201cThe East Coast is more of a commoditized market,\u201d Murray said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As long as they&#8217;re having fun, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/business\/general\/view\/2009_03_06_snowboards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Herald.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collin Murray, Mike McGraw, Brian Callan, and Scott Petrichko are Bean Snowboards: Boston&#8217;s snowboard micro-brewery. And, according to a story in the Boston Herald, they are &#8220;proudly spreading the word that their boards are &#8216;Made in Boston.&#8217;&#8221; By hosting numerous demo days and rail jams at Blue Hills, which is only a few miles from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}