The NEBCO Lookout Thread

[MooltiPass]

Just blame it on traffic in New Haven.

This is a viable strategy.

I drove by about 15 minutes ago, line was still crazy and I neglected to stop my car.

 

[Dino1]

And everyone watch out for those line cutting neckbeards like Dino.

This is a viable strategy.

I drove by about 15 minutes ago, line was still crazy and I neglected to stop my car.

Dude, just park the car and roll right to the front. Works every time!!!

 

[mateoloco]

Got my growlers just before 6, so all told a 3.5 hour wait. Not too crazy late for dinner so no dog house, which is good.

 

[GuisseppeFranco]

Got my growlers just before 6, so all told a 3.5 hour wait. Not too crazy late for dinner so no dog house, which is good.

Sounds like you should've just entered a FB raffle.

 

[Dino1]

Dude, just park the car and roll right to the front. Works every time!!!

 

[HopStunna]

supernautttttt

 

[Juan Gueuzeman]

 

[Juan Gueuzeman]

Amity and Coastal ladies and gentlemen

Stahp

 

[mcwalsh]

Amity and Coastal ladies and gentlemen

Stahp

pathetic

 

[threephase1]

Probably not just Amity... I've seen date stickers on 4/6 pack holders in multiple stores scraped up like this. Could be any loading/unloading being done by the distributor or the store. I assume since these are the highest point of the cans in the case any sliding when packing cases could do this.

 

[Juan Gueuzeman]

i straight up asked at coastal and was told they dont want customers to be concerned over freshness dates. it's every Hag 6er at both coastal and amity, they did to Captain's Daughter as well. **** policy.

 

[lambandtunaphish]

i straight up asked at coastal and was told they dont want customers to be concerned over freshness dates. it's every Hag 6er at both coastal and amity, they did to Captain's Daughter as well. **** policy.

That's pretty weak. I've actually bought Hag @ Coastal within the past month or so and the sticker was fine.

Also, I thought Amity burns through cases of Hag pretty quickly. Anyway, the cases are still dated, if they have stacks on the floor. Hopefully they don't go around swapping those out

 

[DrWangerBanger]

I'm pretty skeptical, I've always seen the guys at Amity as pretty straight forward and ethical about stuff like that, and it seems like a pretty stupid waste of time to scrape the dates off of 6 packs of a beer that flies off the shelf.

 

[Juan Gueuzeman]

friend said he went to Coastal on Sunday and the dates were visible again, quite possibly because we asked them why the stickers were scratched off... and were met with stutters, only the stocking guy was honest about it.

the Amity issue i saw on Saturday when i made the post right after hitting nebco,
Coastal I noticed it on Friday.

 

[Senator Spaceman]

i straight up asked at coastal and was told they dont want customers to be concerned over freshness dates. it's every Hag 6er at both coastal and amity, they did to Captain's Daughter as well. **** policy.

That's absolutely ridiculous. I know they can't really do anything about it, but I wonder what the breweries would have to say about this crap.

 

[DrWangerBanger]

So I just learned today that some liquor stores are splitting 6 packs of Sea Hag into 4 packs to try and make them last longer? That's pretty ******* lame, especially since I think they're charging more than a 6 pack costs. Sounds like Loading Dock and whatever the name of that place is out on Cherry Street in Milford are doing it.

Cherry Street place was also selling Bot-Hag-668-something(didn't really look) mixer 4 packs for $15.99, lame

Someone HAS to have a recommendation for a good, large liquor store that isn't the Cherry Street place in the general vicinity of Milford or Trumbull

 

[davey101]

So I just learned today that some liquor stores are splitting 6 packs of Sea Hag into 4 packs to try and make them last longer? That's pretty ******* lame, especially since I think they're charging more than a 6 pack costs. Sounds like Loading Dock and whatever the name of that place is out on Cherry Street in Milford are doing it.

Cherry Street place was also selling Bot-Hag-668-something(didn't really look) mixer 4 packs for $15.99, lame

Someone HAS to have a recommendation for a good, large liquor store that isn't the Cherry Street place in the general vicinity of Milford or Trumbull

Kays in East Hartford would always do a four pack of Hag + 2 Bot's to stretch the Bot but the pricing sorta made sense on that. Four packs of over priced Hag makes me a sad panda.

 

[DrWangerBanger]

The mixer 4 packs with bot make sense to me, pricing them at $16 does not. The 4 packs of Hag would also be fine with me if they scaled the price down accordingly, but they didn't.

 

[lambandtunaphish]

 

[DrWangerBanger]

So as a bit of a followup to the Amity date stickers thing: it looks like they're scraping off the date stickers from all canned 6 and 4 packs, not just NEBCO ones. Pretty lame.

 

[Juan Gueuzeman]

I'm pretty skeptical, it seems like a pretty stupid waste of time to scrape the dates off of 6 packs of a beer that flies off the shelf.

yes it does, doesnt it




First they came for the Sea Hag, and I did not speak, for I was not a Sea Hag

Then they came for the Captain's Daughter, and I did not speak, for I was not a Captain's Daughter

Then they came for mead, but there was no one left to speak for mead.

 

[CT Beer Drinkers]

Regarding the sea hag date labels. I saw them like at my local store in Fairfield. Do you think the labels got wet? When I was at NEBCO last week, they were loading their distributors truck with pallets of hag in the middle of torrential rain. Maybe it smudged the ink

 

[DrWangerBanger]

I'm open to an explanation other than "they're ripping the date stickers off to be as obtuse about beer age as possible" but I'm having a really, really tough time imagining the rain caused the to slip off in the way I saw them ripped off.

 

[davey101]

I'm open to an explanation other than "they're ripping the date stickers off to be as obtuse about beer age as possible" but I'm having a really, really tough time imagining the rain caused the to slip off in the way I saw them ripped off.

Eli slobber?

 

[CT Beer Drinkers]

Here's some 668 stickers. Picked up today at total wine in Norwalk with the labels warn. A couple of pallets of 668 were also being loaded during the rain.

 

[mcwalsh]

I got some Sea Hag from Manchester Wine and Liquor last week and the only part of the label that was warn off was the "15." They've never removed can date labels before...and leaving the month and day and removing only the year would be pointless. So I dunno.

 

[threephase1]

You all are crazy with your conspiracy theories.... The beer gets loaded onto the truck at the brewery cold... Then probably spends some time in a warm atmosphere causing condensation on the way to the distributor. Then it ends up in cold storage again. Then it goes on another truck to the store and gets a little warmer again. Label gets a little damp. You then move cases around; dragging the case on the top across the lower cases and boom... label gets worn off.

I could see the argument for the store scraping it off if the adhesive was removed as well. Looking at the picture above you can clearly still see the adhesive is still intact. A knife or something else scraping at the label would have removed the adhesive as well.

 

[DrWangerBanger]

You're probably right

 

[lambandtunaphish]

You all are crazy with your conspiracy theories.

i straight up asked at coastal and was told they dont want customers to be concerned over freshness dates. it's every Hag 6er at both coastal and amity, they did to Captain's Daughter as well. **** policy.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[lambandtunaphish]

I'm sure you all want another place to follow them on social media