Hypin' Hypin' Homers III: Revenge of the Homers

[Skrypt]

Anyway, 60 bottles? What the **** is that? Did they have one of those 10-gallon barrels? Did they say "aw **** it, let's keg 80% of this and watch the plebs dance for the 60 bottles we'll make"? That's a really bizarre number of bottles to release. If you only have 1 barrel, either bottle it all or don't bottle any. I don't get going for a medium there, except to build hype.

According to a bartender in the tasting room, they attempted to hand bottle and ended up under filling a bunch, which they can't legally sell.

 

[Skrypt]

I should have read this thread before posting. It's awesome. Great work stupac.

Fwiw, re: my accusation of homerism, you'll find my ba/untappd ratings to be rather critical of my home town brewery, often below the average, quirkzoo

 

[quirkzoo1]

I should have read this thread before posting. It's awesome. Great work stupac.

Fwiw, re: my accusation of homerism, you'll find my ba/untappd ratings to be rather critical of my home town brewery, often below the average, quirkzoo

Again, that further supports what I was trying to say, which is that when the data is taken in aggregate the actual amount of "homerism" is very little. But if you look at a single beer (often a limited release and therefore a small sample size) the appearance (or perhaps the possibility) of homerism goes up.

 

[shelf_turd_ferguson]

To be fair, I can't really make judgments about situations like this one. However, I would be positively shocked if this weren't a case of hyping (intentional or not, and by this guy or not). 60-bottle releases are just going to have that happen to them, but the sample size will be far too small for anyone to be able to really prove it (unless it's hilariously egregious, of course).

Anyway, 60 bottles? What the **** is that? Did they have one of those 10-gallon barrels? Did they say "aw **** it, let's keg 80% of this and watch the plebs dance for the 60 bottles we'll make"? That's a really bizarre number of bottles to release. If you only have 1 barrel, either bottle it all or don't bottle any. I don't get going for a medium there, except to build hype.

Interesting case. I agree with stupac2 about a 60 bottle release. And for them to under-fill a bunch, well they've bottled before right? But it's already been addressed.

IMO it's unintentional hyping. The beer has 5 ratings and is stellar so far, great. Maybe it got rated a little higher by one or all reviewers because of the rarity, but I doubt it was an intentional, concerted effort. I'm taking the glass half full look here. I don't think ShelbyTheGuy did anything wrong (note his review was also a month ago).
However, if someone else were to be hyping average homer beer to be world-class, then quirkzoo has a point.
Homers gonna homer, unless everyone starts approaching beer completely indifferent and with few preconceived notions. But that sucks the fun away from beer. Be subjective, enjoy it, promote what you like, and share it with others!