Random Beer Thoughts

[BadJustin]

No one else uses bees in their logo or merchandizing in brewing.

This is true but these breweries are less that 3 hours apart, have a little decency and respect.

 

[FoudreGuy]

Didn't go. Between the logo rip off and the standard Central NY offerings of an IPA, a brown ale and a stout, I am going to guess they don't exactly have their pulse on the beer scene in this area, let alone anywhere else.

And they had to shut down for two weeks? Yeah, that doesn't sound like a viable business plan. Or they blew their load and are scrambling to figure out what to do.

 

[tikk]

And they had to shut down for two weeks? Yeah, that doesn't sound like a viable business plan. Or they blew their load and are scrambling to figure out what to do.

New brewery, may be the next big thing. Have to get in before the hype. That seems to be the way things go with new brewery openings.

My friends are fledgling beer geeks and the number of new breweries that I have heard referred to as the next hill farmstead or tree house is insane.

Edit: that also helps the hype. Did you hear they sold out of beers! They must be amazing.

 

[hornydevil]

the number of new breweries that I have heard referred to as the next hill farmstead or tree house is insane.

Your friends:

 

[chefduff2]

Didn't go. Between the logo rip off and the standard Central NY offerings of an IPA, a brown ale and a stout, I am going to guess they don't exactly have their pulse on the beer scene in this area, let alone anywhere else.

Please tell me that they only Brew with NY's ****** ingredients to get the Farmhouse tax break. Then you can say standard CNY offering.

 

[lambandtunaphish]

I also forgot to mention that their grand opening was this weekend. They ran out of beer and will now be closed for 2 weeks while they brew more. So obviously, you got a little excited and opened before you were ready to. I give them 6 months.

Eh, this seems to be the norm here in CT now. New place opens, everyone swarms it opening weekend, they close for a week to replenish and they're good to go. I'm not sure I'd hold the running out of beer thing against them.

 

[BadJustin]

Please tell me that they only Brew with NY's ****** ingredients to get the Farmhouse tax break. Then you can say standard CNY offering.

Why do you think they are open man?

 

[BadJustin]

Eh, this seems to be the norm here in CT now. New place opens, everyone swarms it opening weekend, they close for a week to replenish and they're good to go. I'm not sure I'd hold the running out of beer thing against them.

Fair enough, just struck me as odd.

 

[Lutter]

I've been talking about this over in the Texas thread, but the Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas just got a bit of legislation passed for breweries above 175k barrels (including subsidiaries, so Karbach would have their barrel count based on their count combined with all the other breweries ABI owns) to have to pay a "dockage fee" to them (equivalent to what they pay for selling a beer in a store) despite the beer never leaving the brewery.

One of the main ways they accomplished this (without ANY support from Texas craft brewers [who feel that it both puts a ceiling on how much beer they can sell in Texas and abroad and does not even allow for a minority stake from a larger brewery or beer investment group]) was this letter:



"THEY CAN BUY THE SELL-OUTS BUT THEY CAN'T BUY THE MOVEMENT!"

 

[JBP]

The local FB beer groups see nothing wrong with the logo of the newest local place. What?

Shocking that people who don't know IP law and reflexively side with any brewery being sued for infringing upon it (aka most of the beer community) don't see a problem here, right?

No one else uses bees in their logo or merchandizing in brewing.

Do a google image search for "meadery logo"... It is apparently a rule when starting a meadery that you must use either a bee, a honeycomb outline, or a bee inside of a honeycomb outline.

 

[hornydevil]

Do a google image search for "meadery logo"... It is apparently a rule when starting a meadery that you must use either a bee, a honeycomb outline, or a bee inside of a honeycomb outline.

Anxiously awaiting a bee made of honeycomb.

 

[Lutter]

Do a google image search for "meadery logo"... It is apparently a rule when starting a meadery that you must use either a bee, a honeycomb outline, or a bee inside of a honeycomb outline.

Austin Texas checking in:

Rohan Meadery in La Grange, TX has the bee inside the honeycomb imagery:

 

[boogercrack]

Checking out a brewpub in this sub 10,000 population east TX town out in the middle of nowhere. Close to LA.

Pretty decent bottle and tap selection for others, but kinda bunk to only have a honey blonde and a strawberry wheat on as your only house beers. Sweet tap room though.

Ah well. Its literally 3 miles from one of my plants so im sure I'll be back.

Pretty interesting to open something like this and not have ABI products. Not sure how itll go over in a blue collar town.

Im literally the only person in here but it is midafternoon on a monday.

 

[hornydevil]

Pretty decent bottle and tap selection for others, but kinda bunk to only have a honey blonde and a strawberry wheat on as your only house beers. Sweet tap room though.

At least they have that going for them.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Do a google image search for "meadery logo"... It is apparently a rule when starting a meadery that you must use either a bee, a honeycomb outline, or a bee inside of a honeycomb outline.

This. I used B Nektar because they are the largest (and they distro in New York) but Brooklyn Meadery also has a bee logo. Anyone with a law degree from Google will say that Plan Bee has done a lousy job of defending their IP, but an actual IP lawyer might see it differently. Maybe because I spend soo much time in the land of mead where the bees have to look a lot more similar before folks start nit picking, I just find it not worth the effort of grabbing pitch forks.

 

[BadJustin]

Huh. Apparently I went to HF the exact same time last year. Neat.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Huh. Apparently I went to HF the exact same time last year. Neat.

You can send me HF, too. Thanks.

 

[jbeezification1]

Checking out a brewpub in this sub 10,000 population east TX town out in the middle of nowhere. Close to LA.

Pretty decent bottle and tap selection for others, but kinda bunk to only have a honey blonde and a strawberry wheat on as your only house beers. Sweet tap room though.

Ah well. Its literally 3 miles from one of my plants so im sure I'll be back.

Pretty interesting to open something like this and not have ABI products. Not sure how itll go over in a blue collar town.

Im literally the only person in here but it is midafternoon on a monday.

Where are you?

 

[Lutter]

Where are you?

Probably lost in the pines of Naco-nowhere from the sounds of it.

 

[jbeezification1]

Probably lost in the pines of Naco-nowhere from the sounds of it.

There's a decent bottle shop in Nacogdoches and there's a little brewery in Lufkin. I don't think either city is really close to LA so that's where I'm lost.

 

[boogercrack]

Neches Brewing Co
Port Neches, TX

 

[arren]

Gene should lawyer up: CraftBeer.com infringing on TB's IPs hard.

https://www.craftbeer.com/acbw-news/beer-it-forward-american-craft-beer-week

 

[Stubs]

Huh. Apparently I went to HF the exact same time last year. Neat.

Much better than your bee logo post.

 

[TommyShitt]

Much better than your bee logo post.

 

[lb304854]

Gene should lawyer up: CraftBeer.com infringing on TB's IPs hard.

https://www.craftbeer.com/acbw-news/beer-it-forward-american-craft-beer-week

Who are these guys and why do I constantly get emails from them?

 

[Ziggy]

Gene should lawyer up: CraftBeer.com infringing on TB's IPs hard.

https://www.craftbeer.com/acbw-news/beer-it-forward-american-craft-beer-week

That site looks like somebody got lucky and snatched the domain name up, and has not really given much of a **** since.

 

[arren]

Who are these guys and why do I constantly get emails from them?

Dude, I thought I was the only one. I don't ever remember opting in either.

 

[Josh2]

Gene should lawyer up: CraftBeer.com infringing on TB's IPs hard.

https://www.craftbeer.com/acbw-news/beer-it-forward-american-craft-beer-week

#beeritforward is TB IP?

 

[gregkoko]

 

[Lutter]

Bees + Astros = Bistros

So continental.