April 22, 20214 yr Author Back in philly. Grabbed a troegs perpetual. Not bad was thrilled to grab some lawsons and industrial arts here
April 22, 20214 yr 11 hours ago, ToastJenkins said: Back in philly. Grabbed a troegs perpetual. Not bad was thrilled to grab some lawsons and industrial arts here I've been drinking a lot of Troegs Lollihop. You just missed their Nugget Nectar. It's so nice to have Sip available pretty much all the time here now.
April 22, 20214 yr Author yeah nugget would have been a score. oh well. wish i was here long enough to hit imprint
April 22, 20214 yr 8 hours ago, ToastJenkins said: yeah nugget would have been a score. oh well. wish i was here long enough to hit imprint Reminds me I might have to take a trip up there to Imprint. Tried to buy beers online back in October and pick them up as part of a road trip, but all the ones we wanted sold out really quick. Guess with the restrictions eased from what they were that it's possible to stop by sometime now. Though I think our next brewery tour sometime next month will still probably be more around the SJ Shore area again.
April 24, 20214 yr If anyone is close to Pizza Boy in Enola PA they have a strawberry milkshake IPA right now that’s absolutely delicious - couple of DIPAs out too that are good - Paddling Upstream is one
April 24, 20214 yr Some of Pizza Boy's beers are available in NJ now via Cape May Brewing. When Cape May had to contract brew their seasonal beers (Bog, Grove, Crushin It, Tan Limes, etc.) at Saranac in NY they also had to get a multi-state distributors license since they were now shipping beer brewed in NY into NJ. With that they are able to sell other breweries' beers so they took on distribution in NJ for Pizza Boy. They also have Starcut Ciders out of MI and have just taken on Short's Brewing in MI which is the 3rd biggest brewery in that state after Founders and Bell's. Seems weird for them to be selling other breweries' beers, but guess they also figure if these breweries are going to come into NJ that they might as well get the sales for them instead of another distro. And someday it could work both ways where these breweries could distro for Cape May in their states.
April 30, 20214 yr On 4/24/2021 at 12:43 PM, Green_Guinness said: Some of Pizza Boy's beers are available in NJ now via Cape May Brewing. When Cape May had to contract brew their seasonal beers (Bog, Grove, Crushin It, Tan Limes, etc.) at Saranac in NY they also had to get a multi-state distributors license since they were now shipping beer brewed in NY into NJ. With that they are able to sell other breweries' beers so they took on distribution in NJ for Pizza Boy. They also have Starcut Ciders out of MI and have just taken on Short's Brewing in MI which is the 3rd biggest brewery in that state after Founders and Bell's. Seems weird for them to be selling other breweries' beers, but guess they also figure if these breweries are going to come into NJ that they might as well get the sales for them instead of another distro. And someday it could work both ways where these breweries could distro for Cape May in their states. I wish some of these craft breweries that "sold out" joined together to form their own distribution companies instead, in order to maintain their independence. I don't know the ins-and-outs of beer distribution, but craft breweries founding and co-owning a distribution company would be more favorable than selling to Boston Beer Company or AB InBev.
April 30, 20214 yr Stepping out of my comfort zone yet. I don't usually go for IPA, but hazy IPAs are a bit intriguing to me. This sh** is hazy as hell! I can't quite decide whether this is for me or not, but it is quite good. Frothy, creamy with strong citrus backbone of pineapple and papaya. Moderately hoppy and well-integrated with pine resin. It's almost more like juice than beer. Good stuff, and local!
May 1, 20214 yr 4 hours ago, xzmattzx said: I wish some of these craft breweries that "sold out" joined together to form their own distribution companies instead, in order to maintain their independence. I don't know the ins-and-outs of beer distribution, but craft breweries founding and co-owning a distribution company would be more favorable than selling to Boston Beer Company or AB InBev. Some of them joined together so they could fend off getting engulfed by the big companies. Speaking of Boston Beer, they merged with Dogfish Head so they are now technically one company and they do some things together (like allow each other to brew at one another's facilities, etc.) though they both maintain their own independence. Victory, Southern Tier, and Sixpoint all joined forces under one company as did Oskar Blues, Cigar City and I think Brooklyn is the 3rd one in that group. Though, none of them have formed their own distribution company or network so they all use the 'regular' large wholesalers. In NJ there's Hunterdon, who started a little over 20 years ago as the state's first craft beer distributor, and now they are part of the L-Knife family that's in most states. They have Sixpoint, Cigar City, and Oskar Blues. The Miller-Coors distro has Brooklyn and Boston Beer/Dogfish. The AB/InBev distro has Victory/Southern Tier. The one that's intriguing is the distro 12 Percent. Believe they are NY state based, but they have a brewing facility/tasting room in CT. Haven't been there, but it's like a brewers' collaborative. I guess for brewers who are talented, but don't have the funds to build their own small brick and mortar brewery that they can brew at the 12 Percent facility and then 12 Percent distributes their beer for them out of the facility. Or maybe they have their own small brewery, but are limited as to how much they can brew so they brew extra at the facility so they can get their beers 'out there'. So it's a win-win situation. I can always tell when a beer comes out of that facility because the first 6 digits of the barcodes always start out 689733.
May 1, 20214 yr 55 minutes ago, Green_Guinness said: Some of them joined together so they could fend off getting engulfed by the big companies. Speaking of Boston Beer, they merged with Dogfish Head so they are now technically one company and they do some things together (like allow each other to brew at one another's facilities, etc.) though they both maintain their own independence. Victory, Southern Tier, and Sixpoint all joined forces under one company as did Oskar Blues, Cigar City and I think Brooklyn is the 3rd one in that group. Though, none of them have formed their own distribution company or network so they all use the 'regular' large wholesalers. In NJ there's Hunterdon, who started a little over 20 years ago as the state's first craft beer distributor, and now they are part of the L-Knife family that's in most states. They have Sixpoint, Cigar City, and Oskar Blues. The Miller-Coors distro has Brooklyn and Boston Beer/Dogfish. The AB/InBev distro has Victory/Southern Tier. The one that's intriguing is the distro 12 Percent. Believe they are NY state based, but they have a brewing facility/tasting room in CT. Haven't been there, but it's like a brewers' collaborative. I guess for brewers who are talented, but don't have the funds to build their own small brick and mortar brewery that they can brew at the 12 Percent facility and then 12 Percent distributes their beer for them out of the facility. Or maybe they have their own small brewery, but are limited as to how much they can brew so they brew extra at the facility so they can get their beers 'out there'. So it's a win-win situation. I can always tell when a beer comes out of that facility because the first 6 digits of the barcodes always start out 689733. The "merger" between Boston Beer Company and Dogfish Head was really a sale; Calagione got $300 million out of it. I knew that Sixpoint was part of Victory because some Sixpoint beers are on tap at the Victory tap rooms. Victory also has had collaborations with Southern Tier on tap in their tap rooms, so I guess I knew that, but Sixpoint is always on tap. I was not aware of the Oskar Blues partnership. As long as these breweries don't have to check with anyone higher up on ideas, I personally don't have any problems. Dogfish Head has been the same since they merger with Boston Beer Company. But some people notice big changes with some of these breweries when they get bought out.
May 3, 20214 yr Author Maine went to crap when they scaled up Is anyone carrying Bare Hands out there yet?
May 9, 20214 yr Author Popped a trillium Comm Ave dipa so so good pleasant balance of fruit and grassy hop notes
May 9, 20214 yr 13 minutes ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said: I'm so jealous of you guys in the States. So so many incredible IPAs. You want 'em? I'm kinda sick of 'em, lol. It's a good style, just seems like overkill in the craft beer scene by this point. I'm more of an ale/lager/stout guy, so IPAs typically aren't really my bag, but I've been kind of been digging on hazy IPAs a bit lately. Generally not into fruit with my beer, but when its got an underlying hoppiness, I find it agreeable.
May 9, 20214 yr 9 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: You want 'em? I'm kinda sick of 'em, lol. It's a good style, just seems like overkill in the craft beer scene by this point. I'm more of an ale/lager/stout guy, so IPAs typically aren't really my bag, but I've been kind of been digging on hazy IPAs a bit lately. Generally not into fruit with my beer, but when its got an underlying hoppiness, I find it agreeable. Yeah I'll have them no worries. I do enjoy a lager from time to time but I am a big fan of IPAs.
May 9, 20214 yr Author Wonder what we can ship you... its true the americans really own the ipa and stout space but a proper english ale is great. And we have no idea how to make an esb
May 9, 20214 yr Author Opened a 2017 bcbs drinking really nice now. 18 is better but the 17 had finally mellowed
May 16, 20214 yr My obsession with beer has fallen off, I've almost lost the pallet for a lot of the high test stuff I used to love. I think I've drank way too many sours the past year and I can't really enjoy anything more than a single IPA.
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