Random Beer Thoughts

[sacrelicio]

Stories like this CCB-ABInbev rumor are always good for showing what beer bros have absolutely no business sense, or perspective on beer from outside of the beer geek/trader prism. Seeing all kinds of comments elsewhere about how CCB should be worth the same or more than Ballast Point because of **** like El Cat, Hunahpu Day, limited releases that sell out quickly, how their beer is sought after on the trade market, etc. Minor points such as production capacity, distribution range, and real estate holdings are apparently unimportant, what matters is if people will line up for your latest barrel-aged bottle.

Reminds me of this article about how gadget blogger geeks will say that some new iteration of the iPhone or whatever is a "failure" because it lacks some feature or has the antenna in the wrong place or something. And the article was like "This 'failure' is going to still sell millions and millions and millions of units and most people will like it just fine and won't even know about how it's the worst, so...."

 

[sacrelicio]

http://thefullpint.com/beer-news/cigar-city-brewing-may-be-next-ab-inbev-acquisition/

Since when are you jamokes close industry insiders?

Similarly, New Belgium Brewing was in the middle of a sale rumors

It’s very painful for us to run these types of stories, but when we get a strong tip like this, we need to share it with the public, but with a disclaimer that until either AB-InBev makes an acquisition announcement, or Cigar City Brewing goes on the record to deny this, this remains a credible rumor. As always, should this rumor turn out not to be true, we will publicly apologize and retract.

How kind of you to retract after you help to stir up ****.

 

[furley]

thanks for this
20 years too late but might get put in use on my birthday

 

[arren]

Stories like this CCB-ABInbev rumor are always good for showing what beer bros have absolutely no business sense, or perspective on beer from outside of the beer geek/trader prism. Seeing all kinds of comments elsewhere about how CCB should be worth the same or more than Ballast Point because of **** like El Cat, Hunahpu Day, limited releases that sell out quickly, how their beer is sought after on the trade market, etc. Minor points such as production capacity, distribution range, and real estate holdings are apparently unimportant, what matters is if people will line up for your latest barrel-aged bottle.

And these are the same guys who inevitably end up starting their own breweries too, continuing the trend of craft breweries with little education in business or marketing

I've noticed the same thing elsewhere. Also people frantically sharing that FullPint post around on social media, and other "news sites" (using that term -very- loosely) "reporting" on this rumor, where their source is the FullPint post. The entire thing is a huge feedback loop and I wouldn't be shocked at all if the original "source" of the rumor was some dumb speculation (or an outright joke) on here or some other message board.

Could always ask DannyFullpint yourself.

How kind of you to retract after you help to stir up ****.

What **** is getting stirred up, exactly? I know Danny and he's not the kind of person to post **** just to rustle jimmies. That position is clearly reserved for DDB.

 

[furley]

it's a major award!

 

[holldy01]

And now for something completely different


I had this a few days ago. This was the first gueuze I have had where I have picked up on a very distinct sour green apple taste. As it warmed up that sour apple faded a bit but was still prevalent and was replaced with a more mild naturally sweet apple taste. This almost was just a dry cider. The only funk I got was on the nose and it was quite faint.

 

[boogercrack]

And now for something completely different


I had this a few days ago. This was the first gueuze I have had where I have picked up on a very distinct sour green apple taste. As it warmed up that sour apple faded a bit but was still prevalent and was replaced with a more mild naturally sweet apple taste. This almost was just a dry cider. The only funk I got was on the nose and it was quite faint.

try the lindeman's cuvee rene special blend if you dig the green apple

 

[sacrelicio]

What **** is getting stirred up, exactly? I know Danny and he's not the kind of person to post **** just to rustle jimmies. That position is clearly reserved for DDB.

Spreading the rumor around?

 

[drgarage1]

Which one of you ****** wrote this literary masterpiece?

http://beerploma.com/2016/02/09/1867/

Had to be sacrelicio.

This is a killer line:

What I said I was looking for was anything decent in barrel-aged stout category.

 

[holldy01]

try the lindeman's cuvee rene special blend if you dig the green apple

I dug it in a this is a really good dry just slightly funky apple cider kind of way but wouldn't necessarily search it out if looking for a dry mineraly gueuze. That said I would be interested in trying the special blend.

 

[Mindtrip2012]

Had to be sacrelicio.

This is a killer line:

What I said I was looking for was anything decent in barrel-aged stout category.

We've got a Seinfeld expert here......

 

[drgarage1]

We've got a Seinfeld expert here......

Anyone who can start a sentence "What I said I was looking for was..." is definitely a director of education. Or Gertrude Stein.

 

[lopejuice1]

I can't figure out what's funnier. The post on Cigar City's FB this morning from "Karen" about her distaste for cigars, cities, and breweries, wondering how she got mixed up in such a page. Or the account I just read of beer nerds RUNNING down the street FULL SPRINT toward bread and honey in NYC for bottles of MB Double Negative. Really solid internetting today.

 

[Ziggy]

If you open up a utopias, and only drink some of it and seal it for later, will there be a noticeable taste difference down the line?

 

[JulianB1]

I can't figure out what's funnier. The post on Cigar City's FB this morning from "Karen" about her distaste for cigars, cities, and breweries, wondering how she got mixed up in such a page. Or the account I just read of beer nerds RUNNING down the street FULL SPRINT toward bread and honey in NYC for bottles of MB Double Negative. Really solid internetting today.

I posted the former in the CCB and Haters Gonna Hate threads, glad to have caught it before it was deleted.

I'd love to see a link to or screenshot of the latter.

 

[sacrelicio]

Had to be sacrelicio.

This is a killer line:

What I said I was looking for was anything decent in barrel-aged stout category.

Sorry, I only like maple syrup stouts now.

 

[drgarage1]

Sorry, I only like maple syrup stouts now.

You're right, definitely not you. He would have said. "What I said was I was sorry I was only liking for was anything decent in maple syrup stout category."

 

[lopejuice1]

I posted the former in the CCB and Haters Gonna Hate threads, glad to have caught it before it was deleted.

I'd love to see a link to or screenshot of the latter.

Read it in the Grimm thread on the site-which-shall-not-be-named. Just the mental image of some portly dudes with scraggly beards, wearing stained hf t shirts covered in dorito crumbs, barreling down 8th avewith a frenzied look in their eye into a grocery store, winded as ****, giving each other high fives as they wait in line... really got me.

 

[DannyFullpint]

Spreading the rumor around?

Got a credible tip, went to CCB and had a long conversation, decided to post the info I have and labeled it as a rumor.

 

[sacrelicio]

We've got a Seinfeld expert here......

There's money to be made in incorrectly reproducing well known beer trade lingo and telling a story about swapping beer with strangers in a parking lot somewhere? I definitely need to rethink my career choices.

 

[trickytunadicky]

If you open up a utopias, and only drink some of it and seal it for later, will there be a noticeable taste difference down the line?

Yes. Do not recommend.

 

[danbanana]

There's money to be made in incorrectly reproducing well known beer trade lingo and telling a story about swapping beer with strangers in a parking lot somewhere? I definitely need to rethink my career choices.

Didn't DDB discover this like 5 years ago?

 

[nathanmiller]

I got several pages behind but here's what I would have said if I hadn't been slacking:

A whole bunch of Rye and Cognac Abyss just showed up here and I'm likely the only person within a 100 mile radius who would buy it. Worth it to drink or trade?

I'm pretty interested in both and would happily trade for them if they're still all over around you. I'd rather trade for them than inevitably chase them.

I would agree with that, although it seems like there are constant points of contention as to what should and shouldn't be taken seriously around here. Overall though, this is one big circlejerk in which I'm proud to participate.

Anyway, looks like it's that time again when people complain about a "hyped" beer release that has nowhere near the same amount of craze around it as there used to be five years ago.

http://sdcitybeat.com/article-17099-Nix-the-over-hyped-cult-releases.html

"Any beer that doesn't use Comic Sans on the label."

Ugh already.

If you open up a utopias, and only drink some of it and seal it for later, will there be a noticeable taste difference down the line?

Depends on how far down the line. I've reopened one a few weeks later and noticed no difference. Then I broke that bottle (I'm very sad about this) and poured the rest into a glass homebrew bottle. Opened that one about two months later, slight difference but still pretty good.

 

[arren]

Good Beer Hunting is on a ******* TEAR today.

 

[litheum94]

2010: Racer 5 is overrated
2011: I don't get the Sculpin hype
2012: Why is Celebration so highly rated?
2013: Zombie Dust sucks
2014: Heady Topper is mediocre at best
2015: Every IPA that was not released for the first time this year tastes like the back of a hobo's balls
2016: ...and so forth.

I'd sig that if it wasn't so long.

 

[sacrelicio]

Totally agree. Fear of missing out is causing tons of people to buy beer now and figure it all out later.

But I need to buy 4 allotments of every release!

 

[sacrelicio]

Good Beer Hunting is on a ******* TEAR today.

Man, that guy takes us a liiitttlle too seriously. What, he trolls around over here and waits for opinions he doesn't like?

 

[RedCoffee]

Man, that guy takes us a liiitttlle too seriously. What, he trolls around over here and waits for opinions he doesn't like?

Let's see!

Goose Island's 2015 BCBS Variant lineup was weak and all of the overwrought self-congratulatory marketing hoo-hah combined with infection issues probably rightfully damaged their reputation in the beer community.

 

[sacrelicio]

Let's see!

Goose Island's 2015 BCBS Variant lineup was weak and all of the overwrought self-congratulatory marketing hoo-hah combined with infection issues probably rightfully damaged their reputation in the beer community.

Anyone else irrationally hard at the thought of people caring that much about our opinions?

 

[arren]

Man, that guy takes us a liiitttlle too seriously. What, he trolls around over here and waits for opinions he doesn't like?

Anyone else irrationally hard at the thought of people caring that much about our opinions?

Nah.