Random Beer Thoughts

[BuckTuckian]

Just picked up another case of 2.5 week old Laguintas born again yesterday. $40 out the door. Couldn't be happier with the taste to price ratio.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

I see he's apparently not familiar with the mindset of most brewers with regard to their own product if this is shocking.

Someone should forward him Tired Hand's beer descriptions.

 

[JulianB1]

I see he's apparently not familiar with the mindset of most brewers with regard to their own product if this is shocking.

He complains about $16/4-packs ($16 for 64oz of beer) but has no issue with $5 bombers ($15 for 66oz of beer), and $5 is about the cheapest bombers get too.

 

[furley]

still haven't seen any ******* NG Strawberry Rhubarb locally

i'm about to write a sternly worded post in a new toxic topic thread

 

[FoudreGuy]

I envy these people who can get a six pack of craft beer for $9.99.

<-----PA Resident

$7.99 Fremont and Bale Breaker 6-packs. Oh yeah.

 

[user 305778]

Decent article about beer pricing.

Also, any self-proclaimed beer expert that says, "It’s just a lot more expensive to brew beer than it used to be." is not as expert as you think he is.

How is this a decent article about beer pricing? It has zero information about why beer costs what it does, if the high costs are reasonable, or what causes beers to be priced as they are. All it does is complain about the prices of beer.

 

[GoodDon]

When AB bought 10 Barrel, Elysian and Golden Road I didn't give it a second thought since these weren't in my market and figured they wouldn't be after being bought out.


#trumpwronggif


These breweries have now taken up shelf space that was once occupied by craft beer from local breweries or from around the country. One store now carries no Central Waters 6 packs or 4 pack Brewer's Reserve beers. Another store just has 2 spots for Central Waters. When I talked to the managers of both stores they said their "hands are tied" because of AB. Perhaps sometime this year I'll see Karbach and Wicked Weed?

 

[litheum94]

These breweries have now taken up shelf space that was once occupied by craft beer from local breweries or from around the country.

This is the entire point of them purchasing craft breweries.

 

[GoodDon]

This is the entire point of them purchasing craft breweries.

Yeah I get that. I just thought that it wouldn't hit a less populated area like mine.

 

[hornydevil]

How is this a decent article about beer pricing? It has zero information about why beer costs what it does, if the high costs are reasonable, or what causes beers to be priced as they are. All it does is complain about the prices of beer.

I'm trying to come up with a better response than "**** you, ********", but I just can't seem to do so.

 

[FoudreGuy]

When AB bought 10 Barrel, Elysian and Golden Road I didn't give it a second thought since these weren't in my market and figured they wouldn't be after being bought out.


#trumpwronggif


These breweries have now taken up shelf space that was once occupied by craft beer from local breweries or from around the country. One store now carries no Central Waters 6 packs or 4 pack Brewer's Reserve beers. Another store just has 2 spots for Central Waters. When I talked to the managers of both stores they said their "hands are tied" because of AB. Perhaps sometime this year I'll see Karbach and Wicked Weed?

As expected, we already had Elysian and 10 Barrel in Seattle prior to both of them being sold. They now take up way more shelf and end-cap space at the grocery stores than they did before.

 

[RedCoffee]

You'd think Ballast Point was brewed in the back room of my local craft beer spot, I swear. Seems like every company save a few is shrinking and shrinking on the shelves. Firestone Walker, for example, used to have most of their lineup available. Now it's 1, maybe 2 SKUs outside of bombers.

Ballast Point? Practically the whole ******* portfolio. At least a dozen different six packs and a constant rotation of bombers.

 

[jeevo]

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ewing-company-backs-tweets-anger-lebron-james

lol

 

[arren]

You'd think Ballast Point was brewed in the back room of my local craft beer spot, I swear. Seems like every company save a few is shrinking and shrinking on the shelves. Firestone Walker, for example, used to have most of their lineup available. Now it's 1, maybe 2 SKUs outside of bombers.

Ballast Point? Practically the whole ******* portfolio. At least a dozen different six packs and a constant rotation of bombers.

It's pretty incredible the lack of innovation coming from BP lately. It's all just additions to their existing portfolio - the most recent one I saw was like Orange Vanilla Fathom or some depressing ****.

 

[hornydevil]

the most recent one I saw was like Orange Vanilla Fathom or some depressing ****.

The description of most of their beers make me throw up in my mouth.

 

[Thevicster]

If everyone could stop asking for multiple bottles of Flora and be satisfied with just the one bottle of a 3 bottle release that most of us can trade you....

 

[NAD1983]

If everyone could stop asking for multiple bottles of Flora and be satisfied with just the one bottle of a 3 bottle release that most of us can trade you....

So you're saying you have a Flora FT?































































PMed

 

[Fahmie25]

Can you imagine if your kid started playing with the brewing equipment or touching the brew kettles/fermentation vessels.

chemman14

 

[JulianB1]

chemman14

 

[brentsdodgers]

If everyone could stop asking for multiple bottles of Flora and be satisfied with just the one bottle of a 3 bottle release that most of us can trade you....

Wait. Didn't you ask for 3 Floras for a single VR that got brought up over in the ****** deal thread?

 

[JulianB1]

Wait. Didn't you ask for 3 Floras for a single VR that got brought up over in the ****** deal thread?

That wasn't him, he posted one of the deals along those lines in the thread but wasn't the person who proposed it.

 

[Thevicster]

Wait. Didn't you ask for 3 Floras for a single VR that got brought up over in the ****** deal thread?

In short no, I didn't. I posted someone else's ISO who was looking for that.

But thanks for playing.

 

[brentsdodgers]

In short no, I didn't. I posted someone else's ISO who was looking for that.

But thanks for playing.

I stand corrected. It was your comment after tagging pmoney where you mentioned the apparent going rate for a VR from Facebook that made me think it was you in my memory of it. Was too lazy to back and check...my bad.

 

[user 308679]

If everyone could stop asking for multiple bottles of Flora and be satisfied with just the one bottle of a 3 bottle release that most of us can trade you....

I closed a trade for two bottles of Flora right here on TB, so it must not bother everyone.

That being said, I'd trade for any number of them all day long. My favorite beer. Well, b5 was my favorite. Maybe that was lightning in a bottle like the first Saison de Fermier, but hope springs eternal.

 

[furley]

I stand corrected. It was your comment after tagging pmoney where you mentioned the apparent going rate for a VR from Facebook that made me think it was you in my memory of it. Was too lazy to back and check...my bad.

 

[user 305778]

I'm trying to come up with a better response than "**** you, ********", but I just can't seem to do so.

I don't understand the aggressiveness in this response. Did you write the article or something? What about it was interesting to you? As I said, it just seemed to be some guy complaining prices are too high with nothing else. I mean, he quotes a RateBeer ticker as it that person has some sort of expertise in anything.

 

[Thevicster]

I closed a trade for two bottles of Flora right here on TB, so it must not bother everyone.

That being said, I'd trade for any number of them all day long. My favorite beer. Well, b5 was my favorite. Maybe that was lightning in a bottle like the first Saison de Fermier, but hope springs eternal.

Lol. Not a matter of "bothering", it's a matter of what I'm able to do and what I think is reasonable.

Flora is 3 pp. I 99.9% of the time go by myself. So if someone wants 2 bottles, I'm left with 1? That's a tough pill to swallow, and I'm probably not going to do it.

Which of the person posting the Iso has something I'd like to try makes it a lose lose proposition all around.

If my post rustled your jimmies, sorry. Glad you got what you were looking for

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

I don't understand the aggressiveness in this response. Did you write the article or something? What about it was interesting to you? As I said, it just seemed to be some guy complaining prices are too high with nothing else. I mean, he quotes a RateBeer ticker as it that person has some sort of expertise in anything.

 

[hornydevil]

I don't understand the aggressiveness in this response. Did you write the article or something? What about it was interesting to you? As I said, it just seemed to be some guy complaining prices are too high with nothing else. I mean, he quotes a RateBeer ticker as it that person has some sort of expertise in anything.

Aggressiveness? Please. You acted like I did write the article and then I said that it was some Pulitzer Prize winning piece of literature. I said that it was decent. Not great. Not even good. Just decent, which, in my mind, means just OK. Meh, even.

IMO, it provided a good platform for talking about beer pricing, which is a rather arbitrary and controversial subject, i.e. "Why are some beers priced higher than other beers that are basically the same type of beer?"

 

[BadJustin]

Lol. Not a matter of "bothering", it's a matter of what I'm able to do and what I think is reasonable.

Flora is 3 pp. I 99.9% of the time go by myself. So if someone wants 2 bottles, I'm left with 1? That's a tough pill to swallow, and I'm probably not going to do it.

Which of the person posting the Iso has something I'd like to try makes it a lose lose proposition all around.

If my post rustled your jimmies, sorry. Glad you got what you were looking for