Random Beer Thoughts

[bsc]

So is Treehouse the new Heady Topper, trade-wise?

Exactly.

 

[sacrelicio]

Exactly.

It's much better ****. At least that part makes sense.

 

[sacrelicio]

It's very funny when a brewery leaves your market for a few years, comes back, and there's still a bunch of their beer left over from the first time around. Aged Avery Samael anyone?? Promise it doesn't taste like cotton candy, popsicle sticks, and Everclear.

 

[jedwards]

Swung by the old Seattle cellar to see what's left in there and grab a couple beers for Vail. There's some weird crap in there... the occasional exciting bottle though.

 

[caaam]

It's very funny when a brewery leaves your market for a few years, comes back, and there's still a bunch of their beer left over from the first time. Aged Avery Samael anyone?? Promise it doesn't taste like cotton candy, popsicle sticks, and Everclear.

Around here, avery is the perfect example of the beer market now.

The stuff that moves the most, obviously, is the $14 bottles of barrel aged beer, even though they're more than $1/oz. The stuff that moves second most? The cans. IPA, White Rascal, even Joe's Pils and Ellie (the brown ale?), and definitely now raja and lilikoi move. The only stuff that doesn't go anywhere is the bombers. If it's not sour or barrel aged or cheap and crushable, no one wants it

Not that I deviate from those buying practices with avery though…

 

[sacrelicio]

12 and 13 were both absolutely gross in my experience, 14 was gross once and good another time, 15 was good, 11 was pretty okay last year, and 09 has been somewhere between really good and pretty good.

Dark Lord is the ultimate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ beer.

It's a bizarre cultural phenomenon at this point.

 

[sacrelicio]

Mosaic hops taste like 3 dimensional psychedelic hexagonal fruit snacks

 

[quirk6]

Mosaic hops taste like 3 dimensional psychedelic hexagonal fruit snacks

I've always thought that.

 

[ASUBeer]

I like Dark Lord. Probably because I don't even consider it out a stout. It's just alcoholic beer juice to me. Send me your DL's for disposal.

 

[liquiddegenerate]

So a new brewery is opening in my town... but wait they are going to brew only sour beers... and they are going to can almost all of them... also they're flipping the bird to the 3 tier system and selling via e-commerce directly to the customer. Ballsy business plan but I hope the beer is good and they do well.

 

[sacrelicio]

Shelf vanilla variants???

 

[sacrelicio]

So a new brewery is opening in my town... but wait they are going to brew only sour beers... and they are going to can almost all of them... also they're flipping the bird to the 3 tier system and selling via e-commerce directly to the customer. Ballsy business plan but I hope the beer is good and they do well.

You can just order their **** on the website?

 

[liquiddegenerate]

You can just order their **** on the website?

Supposedly when they open

 

[sacrelicio]

Some weird place here is opening a taproom where you can pour your own beer or something? I'm gonna use it like a buffet soda station and make swamp water.

 

[arren]

Some weird place here is opening a taproom where you can pour your own beer or something? I'm gonna use it like a buffet soda station and make swamp water.

There are a couple locations like that here in San Diego. I've never been, but basic gist is that they give you some kind of magic wristband or something that communicates with the taps, and you pay per oz. or something.

Needless to say, it's fundamentally more expensive per oz than going somewhere for a full pour of beer, but it's not like you need more than 2 oz to rate a beer or anything.

 

[PepeSylvia1]

but it's not like you need more than 2 oz to rate a beer or anything.

 

[abawol01]

Some weird place here is opening a taproom where you can pour your own beer or something? I'm gonna use it like a buffet soda station and make swamp water.

That is called suicide 'round the parts and is clearly the correct way to describe mixing many different flavors. I fully expect you will change your nomenclature to accommodate the correct term.

 

[Shakedwnst]

Supposedly when they open

What's so different about this and the self distribution method tired hands has used since the beginning?

Seems to have worked for them. Now if this results in mailing beer all over the country that might be a different story

 

[liquiddegenerate]

What's so different about this and the self distribution method tired hands has used since the beginning?

Seems to have worked for them. Now if this results in mailing beer all over the country that might be a different story

Yes mailing beer all over the country and the brewery is located in a town 20000 people, not Philly burbs.

 

[holldy01]

What's so different about this and the self distribution method tired hands has used since the beginning?

Seems to have worked for them. Now if this results in mailing beer all over the country that might be a different story

Tired Hands doesnt distribute directly to the consumer. They distribute kegs but all their cans and bottles are only able to be bought at one of their two locations-recently only at the fermentaria. This brewery seems much more consumer friendly than TH. Even the beer TH kegs and sends out they will put restrictions on such as no crowlers at Als.

 

[sacrelicio]

Man, that guy needs to be a comic strip. "Sammy Shitlord."

 

[JulianB1]

Man, that guy needs to be a comic strip. "Sammy Shitlord."

He needs a fedora.

 

[Shakedwnst]

Tired Hands doesnt distribute directly to the consumer.

Not to get into a semantics argument, but if you are selling the beer out of your own doors without involving origlio/Bella/shangys isn't that as direct to consumer it gets?

At least for beer?

 

[sacrelicio]

That is called suicide 'round the parts and is clearly the correct way to describe mixing many different flavors. I fully expect you will change your nomenclature to accommodate the correct term.

You guys have all your own weird terms for stuff. I like it, but it's crazy.

 

[sacrelicio]

Not to get into a semantics argument, but if you are selling the beer out of your own doors without involving origlio/Bella/shangys isn't that as direct to consumer it gets?

At least for beer?

Eh...selling directly at retail isn't really the same as "distribution." Unless you count trading? I suppose that kinda counts.

 

[PepeSylvia1]

He needs a fedora.

And a neckbeard

 

[RayP]

The wife domed an entire Cascade sour on her own last night. Not a single Tums.... and that was after we split 3-4 other sour beers.



She has bigger balls than I do.

 

[sacrelicio]

And a neckbeard

Short pants. Dude, it would be so funny. Have it in like a old-style comic strip format. Possibly use "New Yorker style captions."

 

[JBP]

 

[abawol01]

Just noticed the bottles are waxed. Nice touch.