Random Beer Thoughts

[FoudreGuy]

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.

Yeah, he apparently lives there half the year. That’s the only reason that Oregon gets Sixpoint.

I will say that Sixpoint has amazing customer service. I checked in an old can of Resin years ago on Untappd and the social media person vowed to “make it right” by sending me three 4-packs of their beer along with a shirt and stickers. All this to a state they don’t even distribute to.

Having that much beer is dumb.

At some point you have to drink it!

 

[trickytunadicky]

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.

I used to do research on the big three for my MS since my company I work for is private. SAB Miller actually treated their employees well and preferred distribution agreements and joint ventures to agressive takeovers. They had a lot of goodwill compared to both InBev and even Sam Adams.

 

[Lutter]

At some point you have to drink it!

It's a great way to pre-cater the beverages for your funeral!

Save your family a hassle!

 

[lb304854]

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


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That's like a 7" beer penis at most.

 

[flyingbison]

That's like a 7" beer penis at most.

Erect or flaccid?

 

[YungCoolship]

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


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Sweet cellar, but I raise you my Derek Lerd shelf

 

[furley]

i've got maybe... 30 bottles of beer in my "cellar". half of which are Expedition and some Central Waters bourbon barrel beers. the rest are things i just haven't gotten around to draining.

how in the ever living **** does someone have 4000 bottles of beer... of that quality... and has he/she estimated how much money they have wasted on buying beer they'll never be able to drink?

 

[flyingbison]

i've got maybe... 30 bottles of beer in my "cellar". half of which are Expedition and some Central Waters bourbon barrel beers. the rest are things i just haven't gotten around to draining.

how in the ever living **** does someone have 4000 bottles of beer... of that quality... and has he/she estimated how much money they have wasted on buying beer they'll never be able to drink?

I assumed that was NFLMVP's basement, no?

 

[furley]

I assumed that was NFLMVP's basement, no?

that was my first thought but the layout is all wrong

also, he could probably drink 4000 beers in a year

 

[stupac2]

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


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I always love these cellars, they're basically "I have more money than sense and am going to have a lot of garbage sugar-water to get rid of because of it." At least this one has large chunks of things that can age, but man, it's going to be ******* hard to actually drink it all.

 

[flyingbison]

that was my first thought but the layout is all wrong

also, he could probably drink 4000 beers in a year

Is he still alive?

 

[furley]

Is he still alive?

just married

 

[ggfunk]

Is he still alive?

Wade Boggs is very much alive.

 

[flyingbison]

just married

Poor bastard. What a terrible way to go.

 

[Der Fuchs]

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


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You couldn't pay me to drink a good bit of that stuff.



Just... why?

 

[drgarage1]

Equity for Punx

 

[trickytunadicky]

that was my first thought but the layout is all wrong

also, he could probably drink 4000 beers in a year

Oh ****, I did not click to the end. Do not now, nor have I ever owned 4K bottles. Yay! I’m not the worst! I do have some cellar software he can use.

 

[sunnrider]

Oh ****, I did not click to the end. Do not now, nor have I ever owned 4K bottles. Yay! I’m not the worst! I do have some cellar software he can use.

Stand down, I´ve been informed that it´s actually Photekut

 

[juliolugo]

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.

If I can get quality for cheap, I don’t “need” the craft guys. Isn’t this what it’s always been about?

 

[Der Fuchs]

Stand down, I´ve been informed that it´s actually Photekut

It's isnt. Unless he moved.



Not enough license plates piled in the background.

 

[Lutter]

Corked and caged Shiner?

It’ll be interested to see the pricing on this given their 22oz bombers are normally $1.79, lol.

 

[boogercrack]

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This right here is why I dont trade for vintage beer. This person is obviously proud of their apartment room temp aged beer, and I will guarantee they'd list it as "properly cellared". I wonder how good a 15 year old bcs stored in the warmest part of a room temperature room can possibly be. So many of those beers were once good, but he's lost the point of aging now and it's just hoarding. All those cigar city imperial sweet stouts? Sorry bud.

What appliance is that in there unplugged?

Beer on the shelf cannot be in a better state right now and I'd argue I can buy better stouts off the shelf right now than the state most of those are currently in.


I know how hypocritical I am saying this, with a 400ish beer collection going myself. But I rationalize it by it being primarily lambic and all fridge kept at 55. I had to deinventory my big ass wine cooler recently for a repair and lining everything up in a spare room was embarassing and an eye opener. Ive become very cavalier about when I choose to drink "the nice beers" over the course of the last couple of years since, well, most of them arent getting better and I dont need special occasions when there clearly will never be enough special occasions. Sometimes a Tuesday I didn't get too annoyed at work is just sufficient enough to drink a Rare. Otherwise, short of selling, a lot will go to waste. I assume I'm not alone.

 

[stupac2]

This right here is why I dont trade for vintage beer. This person is obviously proud of their apartment room temp aged beer, and I will guarantee they'd list it as "properly cellared". I wonder how good a 15 year old bcs stored in the warmest part of a room temperature room can possibly be. So many of those beers were once good, but he's lost the point of aging now and it's just hoarding. All those cigar city imperial sweet stouts? Sorry bud.

What appliance is that in there unplugged?

Beer on the shelf cannot be in a better state right now and I'd argue I can buy better stouts off the shelf right now than the state most of those are currently in.


I know how hypocritical I am saying this, with a 400ish beer collection going myself. But I rationalize it by it being primarily lambic and all fridge kept at 55. I had to deinventory my big ass wine cooler recently for a repair and lining everything up in a spare room was embarassing and an eye opener. Ive become very cavalier about when I choose to drink "the nice beers" over the course of the last couple of years since, well, most of them arent getting better and I dont need special occasions when there clearly will never be enough special occasions. Sometimes a Tuesday I didn't get too annoyed at work is just sufficient enough to drink a Rare. Otherwise, short of selling, a lot will go to waste. I assume I'm not alone.

It's at least possible there's a chiller somewhere in there that makes it better. Or, who knows, maybe his AC is set to 60? I think you're making a bit much about the temperature, remember Cantillon's bomb cellar for aging? JVR was bragging that it doesn't get above 75 in the summer. Beer can handle warm-ish temps.

That said, I'm the same as you. I've been actively trying to scale down the amount of random stuff I have that's just sitting around without any real chance to improve. I'd say more than half of what I have now is beer that can go for 15 years, and I take any chance I can get to reduce the number of random things that won't. Some friends were in town this week and I think I opened 8 Sante bottles with them. It doesn't help that my wife has basically stopped drinking, I'd probably have 100 fewer bottles otherwise...

 

[trickytunadicky]

Isn’t that an in room AC unit dead center in the first pic? I mean it looks like it’s not plugged in, but just thought I would point it out.

 

[Lutter]

Isn’t that an in room AC unit dead center in the first pic? I mean it looks like it’s not plugged in, but just thought I would point it out.

That looks like a dehumidifier.

You’d ideally want a modified window AC and the room at 55 degrees.

I had a friend that had 1500 bottles in a room he basically converted into a walk in fridge with insulation and a modded ac.

 

[FoudreGuy]

I’ve got a sub-below ground garage that never gets warm. Yay for old brick houses built in the 1930s.

I’d probably lose my house in the divorce if I had 1,500 bottles of beer.

 

[Lutter]

I’d probably lose my house in the divorce if I had 1,500 bottles of beer.

You'd have to find a very specific kinda girl that wouldn't run 100mph the opposite direction to that amount of beer.

 

[Lutter]

I love cloudy IPAs as much as the next chump but I am starting to really be triggered by how much the word "Juice" is currently being used in IPA names.

Orange Juice
Juice Bomb
Juice Box
Juice City
Double Juice
Jooooose
Juicy Bits
Contains No Juice
This is Juice
WTF is Juice
O'Juice Simpson

Some kid is gonna die picking up and drinking a 6-pack of pounders with "Juice Box" written on the label with a bunch of bright imagery. So that's also a concern.

Not as big as my being triggered however.

 

[regularjohn]

O'Juice Simpson

 

[JCastle1]

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As someone living in an earthquake zone those shelves make me super nervous.