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[lb304854]

Good to hang with ya for a bit, you ******* crybaby.

Partly my fault I know for driving so far but 45 minutes for my first beer and a half pour of La Fosse were two pretty big WTF moments for me last night. I should have taken off of work to get the good lovin all day.

 

[Sean9689]

Partly my fault I know for driving so far but 45 minutes for my first beer and a half pour of La Fosse were two pretty big WTF moments for me last night. I should have taken off of work to get the good lovin all day.

Why only 1/2 a pour?

 

[lb304854]

Why only 1/2 a pour?

A couple of the pours we got at the end of the table were way short. The barstaff was doing their best to get as many glasses out as possible.

Luckily there was enough Ice Predator to keep me occupied.

 

[Sean9689]

A couple of the pours we got at the end of the table were way short. The barstaff was doing their best to get as many glasses out as possible.

Luckily there was enough Ice Predator to keep me occupied.

Dunt loves him some Ice Predator...

 

[lb304854]

Dunt loves him some Ice Predator...

Like he kept saying, it really is the Double Black of saisons.

 

[Sean9689]

Like he kept saying, it really is the Double Black of saisons.

lol, that really is the perfect descriptor...

 

[SSTroller]

So how was La Fosse?
Anyone drive 18 hours for a pour of it?

 

[Chest Rockwell]

So how was La Fosse?
Anyone drive 18 hours for a pour of it?

I had to listen to my fiancé bitch which felt like 18 hours in a car. She did like it though.

 

[lb304854]

I had to listen to my fiancé bitch which felt like 18 hours in a car. She did like it though.

90/94 traffic as well?

That was the worst I've personally sat in since the Dan Ryan reconstruction.

 

[IronDave]

90/94 traffic as well?

That was the worst I've personally sat in since the Dan Ryan reconstruction.

Tickers gotta tick

 

[JohnfromPurdue]

From Pipeworks FwB:
IMPORTANT: Beer will be available at WLV and LP Binny's in large stock at both locations, but unfortunately, neither store will hold beers specifically for FWB any longer.

Even WLV and Binny's is telling Pipeworks to get their **** together. What has it been, like 3 years now?

 

[Treebs]

From Pipeworks FwB:
IMPORTANT: Beer will be available at WLV and LP Binny's in large stock at both locations, but unfortunately, neither store will hold beers specifically for FWB any longer.

Even WLV and Binny's is telling Pipeworks to get their **** together. What has it been, like 3 years now?

I stopped using that "perk" two years ago when I stopped buying their random $10 bombers of beers with 16 adjuncts in it. Even then WLV wasn't holding anything so it's not that big of a surprise. It's so hilarious though that this was supposed to be one of the biggest perks of the FWB memberships and now it's gone since they can't get their **** together and open up a bottle shop.

 

[SSTroller]

From Pipeworks FwB:
IMPORTANT: Beer will be available at WLV and LP Binny's in large stock at both locations, but unfortunately, neither store will hold beers specifically for FWB any longer.

Even WLV and Binny's is telling Pipeworks to get their **** together. What has it been, like 3 years now?

The BA.com of breweries...

 

[user 306237]

I stopped using that "perk" two years ago when I stopped buying their random $10 bombers of beers with 16 adjuncts in it. Even then WLV wasn't holding anything so it's not that big of a surprise. It's so hilarious though that this was supposed to be one of the biggest perks of the FWB memberships and now it's gone since they can't get their **** together and open up a bottle shop.

But it's okay - they will finally be able to take possession of their retail space! In September!

I really don't understand their expansion plans. Original location, giant new production location, a retail shop and a brewpub near Schubas?

 

[tinypyramids1]

has anyone gotten a payment details email for transient's reserve society? i got the "confirmed you're on the reserve list" message a couple weeks ago but haven't heard anything further.

 

[Treebs]

has anyone gotten a payment details email for transient's reserve society? i got the "confirmed you're on the reserve list" message a couple weeks ago but haven't heard anything further.

Nope. Confirmed no email with Thorpe429 and Dunt as well. I might reach out to Chris on FB and see what's up, but it looks like he's been pretty busy lately. I might give it another week.

 

[SSTroller]

has anyone gotten a payment details email for transient's reserve society? i got the "confirmed you're on the reserve list" message a couple weeks ago but haven't heard anything further.

Haven't gotten mine yet but he replied to the same question on FB back on the 13th

Payment email hasn't gone out. I will post when it does so everyone can make sure they receive it.

 

[Chest Rockwell]

No email, but I got a confirmation I was in after I emailed him last week. He did say on FB that he would post when he sent the payment email.

 

[user 306237]

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/arti...er-may-be-coming-to-goose-island-the-property

Sources within the Rahm Emanuel administration report that the mayor met with directors of Anheuser-Busch InBev NV in late May while they were in Chicago to pitch them on expanding the company's Goose Island Beer Co. operations here. Real estate sources say, further, that the city is pressing the beer giant to take over a long-vacant site across the Chicago River from Goose Island.

The local alderman, Walter Burnett Jr. of the 27th Ward, confirms that he's had his own conversations with AB executives. “I talked to Anheuser-Busch three months ago and told them the site would be a good place to put a new brewery,” Mr. Burnett said. “But we never got on to specifics.”

For its part, AB won't confirm any immediate interest in a move. “It's true that Mayor Emanuel was here to meet with our board,” said Ken Stout, consumer experience director at Goose Island. “But there was no discussion about real estate at the time. It's very possible that at some point we'll need more capacity in Chicago, yet there are no dates or details on that right now.

“Any talk about a new brewery has been just casual conversation, nothing more,” he added.

The 17.5-acre property, at 900 N. Odgen Ave., has been vacant since Chicago Paperboard Corp. closed in 2000. Most recently an automobile dealer, Fletcher Jones Management Group Inc., had pursued the land, but city officials have held out hope of finding an industrial user instead.

Mayor Emanuel can go **** himself -- and Ald. Burnett might as well help him -- and I think Goose has gone off the rails recently... but hot damn if I wouldn't be at that that brewery every damn day if it had a tasting room right on the river about a mile from my apartment.

 

[jakeox]

Good to see Beer Hates Astronauts hitting limited distro after GDDC did too -- I hope this is a sign of things to come with Half Acre, especially since it seems like anything interesting that they release sells out quickly.

These cans look super sharp, too.

 

[ChaQuiseman]

With Half Acre's coming expansion, I think we should see a lot more limited releases hitting distro, and hopefully a ton of new beers.

 

[sherm10161]

With Half Acre's coming expansion, I think we should see a lot more limited releases hitting distro, and hopefully a ton of new beers.

Seems to me that HA has a pretty diverse portfolio of beers already. Some are better than others, but I'm not sure we need a "ton" more.

I mean, we don't want them turning into Pipeworks now, do we?

 

[stxSS07]

Seems to me that HA has a pretty diverse portfolio of beers already. Some are better than others, but I'm not sure we need a "ton" more.

I mean, we don't want them turning into Pipeworks now, do we?

Yeah, nix all of this "tons of new beers" stuff.

Make an assload of (G)DDC in 16oz cans, get them near me, and I will buy it every week.

Profit.

 

[ChaQuiseman]

Seems to me that HA has a pretty diverse portfolio of beers already. Some are better than others, but I'm not sure we need a "ton" more.

I mean, we don't want them turning into Pipeworks now, do we?

Very good point, although I certainly wouldn't mind them experimenting with saccharomyces alternatives a bit more. That Geodesic saison collab with Tired Hands was top notch.

 

[jakeox]

assload of (G)DDC in 16oz cans

 

[stxSS07]

Hahahahahaahahah...FOREX.




Although, I did make my weekly college beer money in 2010 swapping Chinese dongs or whatever their currency is.

 

[tinypyramids1]

Hahahahahaahahah...FOREX.




Although, I did make my weekly college beer money in 2010 swapping Chinese dongs or whatever their currency is.

the dong is vietnamese fyi

 

[stxSS07]

the dong is vietnamese fyi

Yen, dongs, wolf's teeth...it all spends the same baby.

 

[mjohnson171]

I did make my weekly college beer money in 2010 swapping Chinese dongs

 

[stxSS07]

Took way too long...6/10 TB.com.