Random Beer Thoughts

[Padraig]

Byron Knight.

http://beerinsider.com/deviant-dandy-at-beavertown/

That’s the fella. Found him on LinkedIn earlier. No luck finding those cringe early publicity shots of him and Logan with the PBR cans though.

 

[Stubs]

Lagunitas really hasn't changed unlike the InBev acquisitions, but it still sucks.

I bought 2 cases of delcious barrel aged coffee stout for under $100.00.

Born Yesterday, and Born Again are both ******* delicious and were 20 bucks a 12er.

Both these things were awesome.

 

[shuggy1]

Anyone see BA's "Beer Me Anything" ripoff of the Ask Me Anything board here? It's locked behind a premium member paywall and many other stupid rules.

You can see it without a premium account, but you can't ask questions/reply.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/forums/beer-me-anything.69/

Could somebody ask the dope from Sixpoint if he always wears that stupid ******* hat and/or if he was able to find the Ark of the Covenant?

 

[Gaseous Clay]

Anyone know if those pulp wine shippers fit the champagne size bottles as well as typical wine size bottles? Looking to move my cellar to an off-site facility and for space purposes I would like to stack bottles in boxes. The shippers ive been looking at seem to be more oriented toward wine bottles rather than champagne/beer bottles.

Not sure where else to post my question and dont feel like it warrants its own thread, so I hope y'all can forgive me if this isnt the right place for this question.

 

[Lutter]

Lagunitas/Heineken own a stake in Independence Brewing here in Austin and talking to owners they leave them the **** alone.

That was an acquisition by Lagunitas before the Heineken acquisition.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Hot take: Today is the first time I ever heard of Beavertown.

FFS they named a brewery Beavertown. I am about as triggered over that as MordorMongo is over Boneflower

 

[JulianB1]

Hot take: Today is the first time I ever heard of Beavertown.

FFS they named a brewery Beavertown. I am about as triggered over that as MordorMongo is over Boneflower

When I first saw the name in this thread, I assumed it was some brewery I hadn't heard about in either Beaverton (Portland suburb) or Corvallis (OSU Beavers' home) and was kind of confused as to how said under-the-radar Oregon brewery would be worth 40 million.

 

[FoudreGuy]

Beavertown’s Gamma Ray is a damn good beer. Drank many cans of that on a 115 degree day in Grenada Spain a couple years ago.

They also did a collab hoppy lager with Firestone last summer.

 

[Marksy]

Anyone know if those pulp wine shippers fit the champagne size bottles as well as typical wine size bottles? Looking to move my cellar to an off-site facility and for space purposes I would like to stack bottles in boxes. The shippers ive been looking at seem to be more oriented toward wine bottles rather than champagne/beer bottles.

Not sure where else to post my question and dont feel like it warrants its own thread, so I hope y'all can forgive me if this isnt the right place for this question.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Beavertown’s Gamma Ray is a damn good beer. Drank many cans of that on a 115 degree day in Grenada Spain a couple years ago.

They also did a collab hoppy lager with Firestone last summer.

I found some Terrapin Gamma Ray in my cellar when I was reorganizing over the weekend.

 

[Stubs]

I bought 2 cases of delcious barrel aged coffee stout for under $100.00.

Born Yesterday, and Born Again are both ******* delicious and were 20 bucks a 12er.

Both these things were awesome.

What sucks though is that this is probably the worst scenario for the independent folks if Lagunitas would continue this line of thinking. They don't need the margin dollars to keep the doors open. They can run a super narrow margin and go after market share. Selling quality for cheap would be the actual formula for "beating" the craft guys. That and somehow keeping an already large and growing brand nimble in the marketplace.

 

[Gaseous Clay]

Blessings

 

[JCastle1]

Beavertown’s Gamma Ray is a damn good beer. Drank many cans of that on a 115 degree day in Grenada Spain a couple years ago.

They also did a collab hoppy lager with Firestone last summer.

I love Beavertown, drank tons of it when I lived in Germany. Gamma Ray is great.

 

[PhilT1]

Hot take: Today is the first time I ever heard of Beavertown.

FFS they named a brewery Beavertown. I am about as triggered over that as MordorMongo is over Boneflower

It's named after De Beauvoir Town, an area of London that was given the nickname Beavertown because 'De Beauvoir Town' sounded too posh for such an industrial area.

As opposed to the urban dictionary definition of Beavertown...

 

[Padraig]

 

[Padraig]

When I first saw the name in this thread, I assumed it was some brewery I hadn't heard about in either Beaverton (Portland suburb) or Corvallis (OSU Beavers' home) and was kind of confused as to how said under-the-radar Oregon brewery would be worth 40 million.

They’re worth a lot more than $55m. That was for a minority stake. Them and Brewdog (who are valued at over a billion $ based on that last tweet) are the two biggest craft brands in the UK.

I wonder how much Mikkeller gets offered these days.

 

[stakem1]

So, when are breweries gonna start wax dipping cans?

 

[BadJustin]

So, when are breweries gonna start wax dipping cans?

 

[stakem1]

 

[nathanmiller]

I drink a lot of Beavertown whenever I'm in the UK. Lots of good beers. My friend adores them and always stocks his pizzeria fridges with them (he owns a few tiny pizzerias) and gets tons of Neck Oil for personal consumption whenever he makes a big order. This story is not at all interesting, I just realized, but I've already written it so it's here.

Anyway I stand strongly by the philosophy that AB is not Coors is not Heineken is not PE, etc. etc. I'll very likely keep drinking Beavertown.

 

[primebeer]

Anyway I stand strongly by the philosophy that AB is not Coors is not Heineken is not PE, etc. etc. I'll very likely keep drinking Beavertown.

Care to elaborate? I’m very curious. This discussion came up a few hundred pages ago or in another thread but I haven’t seen too many detailed answers delineating those groups.

 

[sunnrider]

OK, which one of you ***** is this?


(Link to media)

 

[RyanG1]

OK, which one of you ***** is this?


(Link to media)

Is that a Three Floyds Bully Guppy!?

 

[trickytunadicky]

OK, which one of you ***** is this?


(Link to media)

My cellar has less Bruery and more mead, but that room looks real familiar.

 

[BadJustin]

My cellar has less Bruery and more mead, but that room looks real familiar.

 

[tikk]

OK, which one of you ***** is this?


(Link to media)

Liked for the cat at the end.

 

[nathanmiller]

Care to elaborate? I’m very curious. This discussion came up a few hundred pages ago or in another thread but I haven’t seen too many detailed answers delineating those groups.

When I lived in Texas I was active with Open The Taps, a grassroots organization that sought to be a voice for consumers to change beer laws. What I witnessed during that involvement was a lot of nasty tactics from AB keeping beer laws terrible. Sometimes via their distributor partners, sometimes from them directly. I've read about these things happening elsewhere as well, but one thing always stays the same: it's always AB that's doing these horrid things. And in Texas, that was certainly true. We didn't see the 11th hour blockages coming from Heineken or from PE groups or from MillerCoors. It was only from AB.

Now, if it's just a "big corporations are bad" thing, I can sympathize with that but not necessarily always agree, or change my behavior due to that. For me, the AB thing has always been a "big corporations who use their size and money for the purpose of eliminating small guys" thing. IIRC, Coors has provided financing for lots of small breweries, as well as helping out in other ways. Heineken/Mahou/Duvel, etc, these seem to be big companies trying to wet their toes in a changing marketplace. In these situations, it's like a big company trying to stay big by adapting to changing trends, whereas with AB, it's always felt like "the market should change to fit us, not the other way around."

I could probably talk about this for hours and provide lots of substantiating evidence and **** but I'm hungover and don't want to do that.

 

[litheum94]

Could somebody ask the dope from Sixpoint if he always wears that stupid ******* hat and/or if he was able to find the Ark of the Covenant?

I met him the other day at a local pub. He apparently has a place in Portland, and travels here often.

He was wearing the hat.

 

[steimie]

OK, which one of you ***** is this?


(Link to media)

Having that much beer is dumb.

 

[Lutter]

OK, which one of you ***** is this?


(Link to media)

A lot of that beer did noooooot age well.