Random Beer Thoughts

[jmgrub]

Found an updated “who owns who” diagram on Twitter. Four Corners is on there and that was last week, so it’s pretty damn fresh.

Who do you guys think has the best portfolio (average beer quality wise) of "craft" breweries?

 

[drgarage1]

Who do you guys think has the best portfolio (average beer quality wise) of "craft" breweries?

Duvel

 

[jmgrub]

Duvel

Fireman Capital Partners

 

[beerindex]

If we're including PE-owned, then Castanea Partners. As far as I know, their portfolio consists of only The Bruery. But their excellence is enough to best any other mixed portfolio that has weaker brands weighing them down (e.g. apparently Deep Ellum at CANArchy/FCP).

 

[Hanzo1]

Not sure if this has been covered here, but this brewery (back channel brewing) seems to be ramping up their glassware game. Can we get a bowl for the next tb glass? (if the new mgmt does glasses)

Bonus- In case you haven’t heard, we are now offering you the chance to experience any of our freshly released IPA’s in a bowl, during the first weekend on tap. With tomorrow being Sunday, that’s your last opportunity to enjoy a bowl before the next batch of IPA. See you tomorrow.

 

[quirk6]

Not sure if this has been covered here, but this brewery (back channel brewing) seems to be ramping up their glassware game. Can we get a bowl for the next tb glass? (if the new mgmt does glasses)

I ordered a large coffee at a place in Montreal and it came in a bowl. Really enhanced the aroma.

 

[Lutter]

Fireman Capital Partners

I’m so looking forward to the day they sell all of those breweries to ABI.

It will be glorious.

If I had to vote I’d say Heineken. Just for Lagunitas, which is a brewery I’ve always been fond of and whose purchase hasn’t led to lesser quality, drove down their 6-pack prices by $2 here.... and made $16 6-packs of good BA beer possible.

They also own Independence Brewing that makes Cucumber Red Horn (as well as regular Red Horn year round) which always gets a standing O in my trade boxes.

 

[Gaseous Clay]

Not sure if this has been covered here, but this brewery (back channel brewing) seems to be ramping up their glassware game. Can we get a bowl for the next tb glass? (if the new mgmt does glasses)

Oh good, I love spilling everywhere.

 

[jmgrub]

Not sure if this has been covered here, but this brewery (back channel brewing) seems to be ramping up their glassware game. Can we get a bowl for the next tb glass? (if the new mgmt does glasses)

If they made a hot tomato soup beer, then I'd be all over this.

 

[tikk]

Not sure if this has been covered here, but this brewery (back channel brewing) seems to be ramping up their glassware game. Can we get a bowl for the next tb glass? (if the new mgmt does glasses)

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[JulianB1]

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"We had to dump the last two batches!" is kind of a weird selling point for a beer, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Also I like how one of the bullet points is basically "check out the secondary market value!"

 

[TommyShitt]

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"We had to dump the last two batches!" is kind of a weird selling point for a beer, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Also I like how one of the bullet points is basically "check out the secondary market value!"

It’s almost like they’re aware of the joke.

 

[NClambicguy]

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"We had to dump the last two batches!" is kind of a weird selling point for a beer, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Also I like how one of the bullet points is basically "check out the secondary market value!"

Yeah the dumping of previous batches makes me really hesitant to make that drive. Doubt I'll be going even with them dropping what looks like an outdated peach/apricot beer. Any idea why they went back to the old format labels for that one?

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

I ordered a large coffee at a place in Montreal and it came in a bowl. Really enhanced the aroma.

Not sure if this has been covered here, but this brewery (back channel brewing) seems to be ramping up their glassware game. Can we get a bowl for the next tb glass? (if the new mgmt does glasses)

r/wewantcups

 

[beerindex]

I’m so looking forward to the day they sell all of those breweries to ABI.

It will be glorious.

If I had to vote I’d say Heineken. Just for Lagunitas, which is a brewery I’ve always been fond of and whose purchase hasn’t led to lesser quality, drove down their 6-pack prices by $2 here.... and made $16 6-packs of good BA beer possible.

They also own Independence Brewing that makes Cucumber Red Horn (as well as regular Red Horn year round) which always gets a standing O in my trade boxes.

Of course they also own Short's, which by the sheer variety of beers they produce may well account for a majority of their craft SKUs, and Short's in terrible more often than not.

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

I’m so looking forward to the day they sell all of those breweries to ABI.

It will be glorious.

I'd be completely surprised if at least Oskar Blues doesn't have some kind of poison pill in the purchase agreement to prevent that. OB has a large brand--at least here in Colorado--that isn't specifically related to the brewery. They have a few different restaurant lines in addition to the music venue in downtown Denver, the Boulder taproom, etc. It wouldn't make sense to build out those areas of the OB brand if the goal was to just sell it out to a bigger fish. ABI doesn't want to buy a fleet of burger food trucks.

 

[Josh2]

 

[beerindex]

ABI doesn't want to buy a fleet of burger food trucks.

Well, the original GI sale didn't include the Clyborn brewpub, so it is conceivable that an OB acquisition could shed non-production real estate holdings with a sublicensing of the brand name.

 

[nathanmiller]

#stopsucking

 

[jmgrub]

Yeah the dumping of previous batches makes me really hesitant to make that drive. Doubt I'll be going even with them dropping what looks like an outdated peach/apricot beer. Any idea why they went back to the old format labels for that one?

When this beer is good, it's really good.

 

[NClambicguy]

When this beer is good, it's really good.

It truly is. However, when they dump the first 2 batches made after the last brewer left it doesn't instill much confidence in their barrel program. I did laugh at them mentioning secondary value and was tempted to put "secondary goes up when all the new supply gets dumped annually"

 

[bramsdell]

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"We had to dump the last two batches!" is kind of a weird selling point for a beer, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Also I like how one of the bullet points is basically "check out the secondary market value!"

I dunno - this could be read as demonstration of quality control. How many breweries out there have released beers, especially sours/wilds, that are clearly just garbage, but didn't want to give up the sale? I'm not particularly wild about Green Man, but I'm pretty okay with a brewery telling me, "The last two batches weren't up to snuff, but we stand by this one."

No guarantee, of course.

 

[NClambicguy]

I dunno - this could be read as demonstration of quality control. How many breweries out there have released beers, especially sours/wilds, that are clearly just garbage, but didn't want to give up the sale? I'm not particularly wild about Green Man, but I'm pretty okay with a brewery telling me, "The last two batches weren't up to snuff, but we stand by this one."

No guarantee, of course.

You're very correct in this assessment and I hope you are right. However, their beers have been getting much more sour to the point of being almost undrinkable (recent bootsy and wilder batches). I'm just not willing to drive 6 hours total for a gamble on this beer when there are no mentions of limits or anything as of yet.

 

[stupac2]

When this beer is good, it's really good.

Really? I wasn't impressed at all when I had it. Maybe that was a bad one then.

 

[jmgrub]

Really? I wasn't impressed at all when I had it. Maybe that was a bad one then.

Or different strokes.

 

[stupac2]

Or different strokes.

No you don't understand my palate is objective truth.

 

[jmgrub]

No you don't understand my palate is objective truth.

Oh yeah well how many unique Untappd check-ins do you have?

 

[Kasher]

Oh yeah well how many unique Untappd check-ins do you have?

 

[wuntrikpony]

No you don't understand my palate is objective truth.

 

[FoudreGuy]

We drank beer through one of those “100 water balloon” lines on the Fourth of July. That hurt.