Random Beer Thoughts

[Arbitrator]

Arbitrator weren't you a big HOTD Adam guy? How old is this **** they just sent me? Will it make me go blind?

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I was and still am. That's a '94 (I think), and yes it will.

Please report back.

 

[Hopping Tiger]

Batch 1 was better

 

[user 306237]

Batch 1 was better

But the later versions with the gold caps were aged in Pappy barrels...

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Bells Brewery selling to New Belgium

http://www.bellsbeer.com/news/letter-larry-bell-kalamazoo

 

[drgarage1]

Bells Brewery selling to New Belgium

http://www.bellsbeer.com/news/letter-larry-bell-kalamazoo

Which means they're selling to Kirin, right?

 

[theLostWizard]

Which means they're selling to Kirin, right?

For those unaware

https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sig...r-collectives-growing-international-portfolio

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Drink enough of this and the results may be a lot of farts and ******* a mermaid.

 

[user 306237]

Oh, so Warpigs is too good to be partially owned by Three Floyd’s?! Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!

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[WhalezB4Rarez]

Imagine showing up with this to a bar

 

[theLostWizard]

Imagine showing up with this to a bar

Broken ceramic and drunk people don’t mix. Buddy got cut by a rare barrel growler at a share.

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

Broken ceramic and drunk people don’t mix. Buddy got cut by a rare barrel growler at a share.

That's some disagreement to end up breaking off a growler and stabbing somebody.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Agreed

 

[MrDave]

hey nerds, what can you tell me about this **** I just got in the mail from some strangers!

 

[MrDave]

please, not all at once...

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

please, not all at once...

I’ve never seen any of those beers before so you know as much as I do!

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Guess this sucks for the workers in Cali

https://www.sandiegobeer.news/blog/beer-news/sweetwaterbreweryacquiringgreenflashbrewing

 

[sdreaper]

Guess this sucks for the workers in Cali

https://www.sandiegobeer.news/blog/beer-news/sweetwaterbreweryacquiringgreenflashbrewing

Severance would be nice, as well as someone else buying the facility and keeping the current staffers employed. There are a few larger breweries that are hiring though, so that is a plus....but yeah...sucks. While I didn't like the beer and liked their business decisions even less, it always smelled fantastic when I would drive past on mira mesa blvd and they were brewing.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Severance would be nice, as well as someone else buying the facility and keeping the current staffers employed. There are a few larger breweries that are hiring though, so that is a plus....but yeah...sucks. While I didn't like the beer and liked their business decisions even less, it always smelled fantastic when I would drive past on mira mesa blvd and they were brewing.

and I have to imagine these moves will be more commonplace (see Bell’s) as the “old guard” loses market share to every 16oz can hazy brewer. Assuming they are, that is, but considering every bigger brewer is copying the “new recipe every week” trend that would seem to be the case.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Ho hum

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/m...lion-buy-of-canarchy-craft-brewery-2022-01-13

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

$1,000,000 can buy me 50,000 cans of hazy ipa sticker cans.

https://www.thrillist.com/news/nati...QiuRi99zz4JyU-S5A6Xk8mv3v4UbXel6ATul-cI-YXZtI

 

[Der Fuchs]

Ho hum

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/m...lion-buy-of-canarchy-craft-brewery-2022-01-13

I never bought those brands anyway.

 

[Arbitrator]

I don't know if I look forward to any beer thing more than buying a case of Heady Topper during SFBW. Only the FW anniversaries come close.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

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This got me thinking.

Heady Topper kicked off the Haze Craze that we’re still in and that debuted 10 years ago. Any other examples of beers, like Miller Lite, that totally shifted what companies make?

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

This got me thinking.

Heady Topper kicked off the Haze Craze that we’re still in and that debuted 10 years ago. Any other examples of beers, like Miller Lite, that totally shifted what companies make?

BCBS?

 

[Der Fuchs]

This got me thinking.

Heady Topper kicked off the Haze Craze that we’re still in and that debuted 10 years ago. Any other examples of beers, like Miller Lite, that totally shifted what companies make?

Dry hopping and dogfish head.

Pale ale and Sierra Nevada.

Hoegaarden/Celis for wit.

Boston Lager as American lager.

 

[SeaWatchman]

Dry hopping and dogfish head.

Pale ale and Sierra Nevada.

Hoegaarden/Celis for wit.

Boston Lager as American lager.

Funk Factory for authentic lambic.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

http://www.moderntimesbeer.com/blog/hard-decisions-and-the-path-forward

 

[Arbitrator]

GUN


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[WhalezB4Rarez]

Jim Koch invented the work boot.

 

[Hopping Tiger]

I'd wear em