Beer in the new era

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/i-think-i-got-duped-feedback-please.234718/

Just read that this morning. I would be annoyed.

Holy crap, I just watched every ep of Just Keep Tastin' for the first time. Any local dudes know these dudes? Anyway, in the off chance someone here hasn't seen this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIyV0J2IEGI

I follow PK on twitter, he's pretty funny.

These are pretty good too: http://dontdrinkbeer.com/

The should really chug a whole bottle of Utopias.

holy crap that BA thread, remind me to only trade with ppl itt

yeah even in the annals of trader insanity that thread is insane

http://firstwefeast.com/drink/craft-beer-mules-exposed/

Secret world of beer muling.

I mean, I get that this shit always has been going on and always will be going on, but stuff like this:

a Beerz 4 Fearz Chicago operative spent most of November going around to area retailers offering to buy their entire allotment for 20% over cost—so long as they would assure him the beer would never hit their shelves. While you were scrounging for a meager four-pack, he acquired literally thousands of bottles.

just really sours me on the whole special release thing completely.

Yeah that's incredibly lame, and the "you'd do it too if you could" justifications hold little sway with me.

welp, i've seen enough. time to set up a rival ilx beer mule network/cartel and give these assholes some competition

A retailer who thinks so little of his customers that he would sell an entire allotment to one asshole and promise the beer would never hit their shelves is as lame as the beer mules imo.

It's basically like ticket scalpers hiring people to stand in line/call for them. Totally lame. But then, there are shops (http://www.archerliquors.com/Goose_Island/Goose_Island_Bourbon_County_2014.html) and breweries who do it right, so, the buck ultimately stops with the distributors for not finding an equitable solution. There is really no reason the BCS should have hit Costco, let alone Walgreens. If they have a product hyped enough to get hundreds of people to line up, they should have a system to reward those willing to line up.

There are also shops totally gouging on this stuff, which is an asshole thing to do, too.

god this shit is so fuckin stupid

lol @ all these ppl desperate to buy InBev products

TBF, as lame as InBev is, the BCS is still done locally and on a small scale, afaict.

i don't even care if it's inbev, there are so many good beers to drink that are widely available that i really do not understand this absurd hunting down and coveting and collecting of what in the end is just another good beer

Amazingly, Sam’s only met two fellow group members in person. One was a loathsome tub of lard from New Hampshire who was as bad as you could possibly imagine a beer geek being

lol this has to be 4d4m j4ckson

lol i had the same thought

we moved recently and so i stopped by the place closest. Was browsing around their modest yet smart beer section, grabbed a 32oz of Lagunitas Sucks. Dude at that counter asked if i'm into craft beer. I say sure i'm down and he pulls out a bunch of BCS from under the counter! i haven't even searched for it this year. grabbed a 2 reg, coffee and a vanilla rye.

only bcbs i'd go out of my way to drink this year is proprietors which is soooo good

I'm just amazed that someone can get 81 bottles of a rare release. I don't have the time, money, connections, or resources to get anywhere near that. Usually I just want to find two!

these dudes need to fucking chill out about this stuff tho. it's a nice treat but it's not all that.

Man that article made me really dislike a lot of humanity and made me realize I'm really fine never tasting a whole lot of beers if that's what you have to get into. I honestly don't care that much and it's not like I'm totally bored of the beers I have available to me now.

It's like a weird combo of obsessive Phish tape traders combined with some sort of shitty wall street bro "fuck you I got mine" mentality.

everybody OTM, especially

god this shit is so fuckin stupid

and

these dudes need to fucking chill out about this stuff

I kind of enjoy the ridiculousness of it all. I mean, it's just crazy. I'd probably watch a reality show about beer mules.

I don't get bummed that I don't get a beer. Sure, I'd like to get some of these releases, because they can be great beers, but like many people have said above, there are a lot of great beers.

I want to start a youtube video series where I use super rare beers to boil bratwurst or make beer cheese soup or micheladas just to see people's heads explode.

i'm drinking vanilla bcbs as we post and it's prob worth going out of your way for

DO IT xp

would LOVE that xxp

lol xps

hell you could just use refilled bottles! Sheaf Stout in BCBS bottles or some such

It's like a weird combo of obsessive Phish tape traders combined with some sort of shitty wall street bro "fuck you I got mine" mentality.

whoa whoa, let's not get crazy. as a former Phish tape trader, I can say that scene was much more about sharing than these assholes.

yea but they were stingy with their weed and sharing rides imo

lol

So speaking of future shitshows, CBS is coming back in draft?

haha, fair. they were totally obnoxious folks in other ways, sure.

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I want to start a youtube video series where I use super rare beers to boil bratwurst or make beer cheese soup or micheladas just to see people's heads explode.

I really liked this one, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1nS8LKRak&feature=youtu.be

Ha I missed that but yeah I dig it.

yep this is all pretty shitty behavior but for w/e reason it does not shock or surprise me at all. reminds me a lot of the vinyl bootlegging scene, just blatantly trying to squeeze money out of a small group of enthusiasts at the expense of the artist/label (and of course said enthusiasts).

i'm not saying that this behavior is excusable in any way, but some record dudes are guilty of far more insidious behavior, trust seems to be exploited to a much larger extent when dudes are competing with eachother for gigs or w/e. it's disgusting and has definitely contributed to me valuing just how many people out there do not succumb to this shit and trade/share beer in a trusting and relatively altruistic fashion

just curious tho - bcbs didn't make it to costco or walgreens before ab-inbev bought goose island, right?

I don't think so, but I don't know for certain. All I do know, you guys all must have much more awesome Costcos than my local one, the NEVER get any good beer. They never even carried that Beer Camp thing from this summer.

I don't think so, no. My biggest problem with it is less it being available and more the staff there having no idea what they have, in terms of setting buying limits and whatnot. But speaking of inbev, it does seem they reward top sellers of their regular shit with more of the special shit, which often leads to further shenanigans.

I am NOT a member of Costco, but I have heard of at least a few of them around here getting special beer releases, Firestone Walker, things like that.it's just a matter of these two are having a good beer guy.

cosctos in OR and WA have decent bombers of firestone, stone, deschutes, a few other local things. i also remember getting a 750 ml of rodenbach for $7.50

the feverish compulsive beer chasing of the mules and description of that NH guy are giving me visions of the dwarves from LOTR or something, mobs of stout bearded dudes monomaniacally accumulating and hoarding their treasure

p much otm, met one of those guys over Thanksgiving.