Random Beer Thoughts

[iong516]

Mmm add Straight Jacket to my 2018 tikk list

 

[iong516]

This was fun indeed...still in massive tikk mode...504 unique.

Wait this isn't the best beers of 2018 thread?

 

[CITC3120327]

This was fun indeed...still in massive tikk mode...504 unique.

No surprises on mine. Head hunter won most categories

 

[JulianB1]

Regarding this "flagship whatever" thing (I don't know if there's a particular day, and I don't ******* care), this evening on the way to a poker game I grabbed a 6-pack of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale from a local supermarket. The beer was fantastic, but while shopping for it I was immediately reminded how much those sorts of beers are at the mercy of the distributors, especially when it comes to package sales. I checked the 6-pack hoping it wouldn't be too old, and the bottle date was November 9 or thereabouts. The 6-pack *immediately* behind it in the cooler was bottled in mid-August, go figure.

 

[boogercrack]

TIL people still use untappd

 

[sherm10161]

TIL people still use untappd

 

[FTowne1]

Regarding this "flagship whatever" thing (I don't know if there's a particular day, and I don't ******* care), this evening on the way to a poker game I grabbed a 6-pack of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale from a local supermarket. The beer was fantastic, but while shopping for it I was immediately reminded how much those sorts of beers are at the mercy of the distributors, especially when it comes to package sales. I checked the 6-pack hoping it wouldn't be too old, and the bottle date was November 9 or thereabouts. The 6-pack *immediately* behind it in the cooler was bottled in mid-August, go figure.

A little while back I found a stash of Torpedo that was less than a month old. It's still legit when it's fresh.

 

[ccbstl]

A little while back I found a stash of Torpedo that was less than a month old. It's still legit when it's fresh.

That's one of the great things about all the Resilience versions out there. When done well it's like having SN fresher that I ever see it.

 

[stupac2]

TIL people still use untappd

I have a super ****** memory and without it I won't remember mah ticks.

 

[NClambicguy]

I have a super ****** memory and without it I won't remember mah ticks.

But then everything is a new tick right?

 

[stupac2]

But then everything is a new tick right?

If everything is a new tick, is anything really a new tick?

 

[FoudreGuy]

TIL people still use untappd

It's fun. Sorry for partying.

 

[jmgrub]

I don't typically rate anything on Untappd, but it's nice to have a log of what you've had.

Much better to take a pic at the end of a share and log the beers after rather than being that dude with their face buried in their phone the whole share.

 

[PepeSylvia1]

I don't typically rate anything on Untappd, but it's nice to have a log of what you've had.

Much better to take a pic at the end of a share and log the beers after rather than being that dude with their face buried in their phone the whole share.

That would probably make you the one dude who doesn't have his head buried in their phone...

 

[jmgrub]

That would probably make you the one dude who doesn't have his head buried in their phone...

There was a former member of my old tasting group that said maybe 5 words each share. He stopped being invited after a while.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

I don't know anyone else saw the commercial or any news about this but Bud Light now comes with Nutrition Information.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/beer/ct-bud-light-calories-20190114-story.html

It got me thinking about Dogfish Head's SeaQuench Ale which boasts "140 calories, 9 carbs, 2 grams of protein and 0 grams of fat" as well as being "the best selling beer in the fastest growing craft beer style (sours) in America."

Not that Dogfish Head (or any) brewer puts up the numbers that Bug Light does but it got me thinking. Is this Bud Light Nutrition Label a reaction to all the press that a beer like SeaQuench Ale has gotten for being Low-Calorie? Sure, ABInBev could have looked across their portfolio of craft beers and tried to do the same thing but nothing has the market like Bud Light.

oh, and on top of that Dogfish Head is going to be putting out a 95 calories, 3.6g carbs, 1g protein, 0g fat 4% ABV IPA soon.

 

[holldy01]

I don't know anyone else saw the commercial or any news about this but Bud Light now comes with Nutrition Information.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/beer/ct-bud-light-calories-20190114-story.html

It got me thinking about Dogfish Head's SeaQuench Ale which boasts "140 calories, 9 carbs, 2 grams of protein and 0 grams of fat" as well as being "the best selling beer in the fastest growing craft beer style (sours) in America."

Not that Dogfish Head (or any) brewer puts up the numbers that Bug Light does but it got me thinking. Is this Bud Light Nutrition Label a reaction to all the press that a beer like SeaQuench Ale has gotten for being Low-Calorie? Sure, ABInBev could have looked across their portfolio of craft beers and tried to do the same thing but nothing has the market like Bud Light.

oh, and on top of that Dogfish Head is going to be putting out a 95 calories, 3.6g carbs, 1g protein, 0g fat 4% ABV IPA soon.

This ad came on during the eagles game. We all cracked up about it. 1) do the people drinking bud light really care about the nutritional info and 2) one doesnt need the nutritional info to know drinking a 30-rack over a weekend isnt probably the best nutritionally.

 

[MikeJones]

1) Do the people drinking bud light really care about the nutritional info?

At least when they started marketing the light lagers and they overtook the the regular Bud/Coors products as number one sellers somebody must have. Even something as recent as Miller 64 is marketed based on caloric content.

 

[sacrelicio]

I don't want to think about calories or any of that **** when I'm drinking.

 

[sacrelicio]

I don't typically rate anything on Untappd, but it's nice to have a log of what you've had.

Much better to take a pic at the end of a share and log the beers after rather than being that dude with their face buried in their phone the whole share.

I used to log every single beer but that got old. Now I just tick ones I haven't had in my favorite styles, just to keep track of what I've had and whether I liked it or not. I still miss a lot of beers though.

 

[lambandtunaphish]

I don't know anyone else saw the commercial or any news about this but Bud Light now comes with Nutrition Information.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/beer/ct-bud-light-calories-20190114-story.html

It got me thinking about Dogfish Head's SeaQuench Ale which boasts "140 calories, 9 carbs, 2 grams of protein and 0 grams of fat" as well as being "the best selling beer in the fastest growing craft beer style (sours) in America."

Not that Dogfish Head (or any) brewer puts up the numbers that Bug Light does but it got me thinking. Is this Bud Light Nutrition Label a reaction to all the press that a beer like SeaQuench Ale has gotten for being Low-Calorie? Sure, ABInBev could have looked across their portfolio of craft beers and tried to do the same thing but nothing has the market like Bud Light.

oh, and on top of that Dogfish Head is going to be putting out a 95 calories, 3.6g carbs, 1g protein, 0g fat 4% ABV IPA soon.

I looked at it with more sinister intent. Start adding the information, hope it becomes required eventually, forcing everyone else to do expensive nutritional analysis for all their beers.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

I looked at it with more sinister intent. Start adding the information, hope it becomes required eventually, forcing everyone else to do expensive nutritional analysis for all their beers.

oooooh that is a good point.

 

[JulianB1]

Not sure if this should go in here or some Toxic Topics thread, but I'll take the risk and hope the discussion doesn't degenerate too much:

DC craft brewery sues, says shutdown may hurt new beer sales

Washington (CNN) A Washington, DC-based craft brewery sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over the ongoing shutdown it says is threatening to prevent it from selling a new beer.

The lawsuit from Atlas Brew Works claims the administration is harming its free speech rights by requiring compliance with a federal law administered by an agency whose operations are not funded through the shutdown.

"We are asking the court to allow us to speak to our customers during this shutdown by permitting Atlas to sell our beer to out of state consumers," Justin Cox, founder and CEO of Atlas, told CNN via email.

...

"The right to free speech is not a favor that the government affords Americans when political circumstances allow," the complaint said.

This is actually an interesting approach. Recent-ish Supreme Court rulings (Citizens United is the most notorious one, but there are lots of others) have expanded what is considered "speech" to include things like political donations/funding and even into commercial transactions. There's a fairly broad class of activities and actions that might fall under the current umbrella, or end up under it through litigation that results in further expansion of the speech idea. Will keg collars for beer make it? Who knows, but it seems possible.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Not sure if this should go in here or some Toxic Topics thread, but I'll take the risk and hope the discussion doesn't degenerate too much:

DC craft brewery sues, says shutdown may hurt new beer sales



This is actually an interesting approach. Recent-ish Supreme Court rulings (Citizens United is the most notorious one, but there are lots of others) have expanded what is considered "speech" to include things like political donations/funding and even into commercial transactions. There's a fairly broad class of activities and actions that might fall under the current umbrella, or end up under it through litigation that results in further expansion of the speech idea. Will keg collars for beer make it? Who knows, but it seems possible.

**** it. Stick it to consumers and no brewery should release any new beer in 2019. Make them buy **** they've already drank.

 

[sacrelicio]

**** it. Stick it to consumers and no brewery should release any new beer in 2019. Make them buy **** they've already drank.

NO I WILL NOT.

 

[jdd419]

**** it. Stick it to consumers and no brewery should release any new beer in 2019. Make them buy **** they've already drank.

Yuengling it is then

 

[DrinKing]

I don't know anyone else saw the commercial or any news about this but Bud Light now comes with Nutrition Information.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/beer/ct-bud-light-calories-20190114-story.html

It got me thinking about Dogfish Head's SeaQuench Ale which boasts "140 calories, 9 carbs, 2 grams of protein and 0 grams of fat" as well as being "the best selling beer in the fastest growing craft beer style (sours) in America."

Not that Dogfish Head (or any) brewer puts up the numbers that Bug Light does but it got me thinking. Is this Bud Light Nutrition Label a reaction to all the press that a beer like SeaQuench Ale has gotten for being Low-Calorie? Sure, ABInBev could have looked across their portfolio of craft beers and tried to do the same thing but nothing has the market like Bud Light.

oh, and on top of that Dogfish Head is going to be putting out a 95 calories, 3.6g carbs, 1g protein, 0g fat 4% ABV IPA soon.

Initially I too thought ABInBev ran the nutrition info commercial for some sort of advantage/nefarious plot to show how much fewer calories their beer has compared to typical craft beers. Turns out 'the labels aren't legally required, but major beer makers agreed in 2016 to voluntarily disclose nutrition facts on their products by 2020.' One of many articles on it below.

Guess ABInBev just felt like really owning the fact they're meeting their promise and felt like touting it in a commercial.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/11/bud-light-debuts-bigger-nutrition-labels.html

 

[litheum94]

Initially I too thought ABInBev ran the nutrition info commercial for some sort of advantage/nefarious plot to show how much fewer calories their beer has compared to typical craft beers. Turns out 'the labels aren't legally required, but major beer makers agreed in 2016 to voluntarily disclose nutrition facts on their products by 2020.' One of many articles on it below.

Guess ABInBev just felt like really owning the fact they're meeting their promise and felt like touting it in a commercial.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/11/bud-light-debuts-bigger-nutrition-labels.html

Lower calorie spirits are cutting into beer's market share, so it is no surprise at all that they are advertising this.

 

[FoudreGuy]

So many breweries around here are getting into the hard seltzer game, too.

 

[lb304854]

I don't know anyone else saw the commercial or any news about this but Bud Light now comes with Nutrition Information.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/beer/ct-bud-light-calories-20190114-story.html

It got me thinking about Dogfish Head's SeaQuench Ale which boasts "140 calories, 9 carbs, 2 grams of protein and 0 grams of fat" as well as being "the best selling beer in the fastest growing craft beer style (sours) in America."

Not that Dogfish Head (or any) brewer puts up the numbers that Bug Light does but it got me thinking. Is this Bud Light Nutrition Label a reaction to all the press that a beer like SeaQuench Ale has gotten for being Low-Calorie? Sure, ABInBev could have looked across their portfolio of craft beers and tried to do the same thing but nothing has the market like Bud Light.

oh, and on top of that Dogfish Head is going to be putting out a 95 calories, 3.6g carbs, 1g protein, 0g fat 4% ABV IPA soon.

I've never heard of SeaQuench Ale, so the press for it is probably overblown.