theprotester Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 You can inform him that it's not really from 'his country'. It's from fuckin' sabmiller. Straight trash. It'll just be a bastardised rebadged Miller product. Motherfucker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicbomb Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Yeah you're right yo. but hey fuck it the shit was good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 As long as you enjoyed it, that's really all that matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanfullofretards Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 You can inform him that it's not really from 'his country'. It's from fuckin' sabmiller. Straight trash. It'll just be a bastardised rebadged Miller product. Motherfucker. Would you ever drink a Goose Island beer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I don't understand the reference, sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanfullofretards Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Goose Island --- they make some amazing craft beers, but they're owned by AB InBev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 protester: goose island is another major label hiding behind a small label. I personally avoid all the crafty-non-craft brews, I don't like their politics and I know there are better beers available. except highlife has a special place in my heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Ah. I see. I'd definitely try it. I'd try what the Abomb posted as well, but being a lager from SABMiller I think it's a safe bet it's watery shit? I see your point though. I just did a small collaboration with a brewer from one of the big three in Australia, and she was a great brewer with a lot of knowledge - made me feel like I was back to crayons. At the end of the day, all those sort of labels are doing is trying to capitalise on the fact craft beer is gaining market share. I believe in the US it's around 6% market share, over here it's 2.5% - but 2.5% of a very big pie is still a nice slice. We are seeing the same thing over here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanfullofretards Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Yeah it's crazy how the craft beer market has exploded in the past few years. It used to be there was a few local brews off in the corner of the cooler shelf, now at a grocery store that that just opened up around here there are three 80 foot stretches of coolers dedicated only to craft beer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50million Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 so only because it's a good deal...all whole foods in NorCal is having a 20% off ALL beer sale today, and today only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eviltrailer77 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 The Whole Foods nearest me is almost 40 miles away, and I'm pretty sure when the wind is right I can smell the patchouli oil from here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 *are having. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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the.crooked Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Had the Goose Island IPA today. Spoke with a Goose Island rep that was at the pub. I'll applaud ABInbev for not fucking with the general structure of the company. None of the recipe's have changed, but I do know the head brewer ducked out right before the sell. Either way, still a generally solid brewery. I've shat on them before, particularly for Matilda, but the Bourbon County Imp. Stout (Original, Rare, Vanilla and Coffee included) are some of the best beers I've ever tried. Soooo, I say they are most def worth the try. I wouldn't put them in the same camp (even if owned by a major) as I would "Blue Moon." Particularly since Blue Moon is what people perceive as craft beer who "come over" from the mainstream markets. So you still have some of the same brewers for the majors portraying crafts, but aren't actually started within that vein. Where as even though I would consider Stone as some sort of emerging major, I would still refer to them as Micro/Craft because of their history. Just some epistemological rantings on the size and distribution of beer versus its relative quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realism Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Fucking Blue Moon--- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 You need those stepping stone companies like Blue Moon to get people all the way to the dark side of real craft ales. A place for everything, and everything in its place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I guess. Unfortunately here, particularly in University settings like where I'm at, there's a lot of braggadocios frat assholes who think they are intellectual hot shit when they come to a thirty tap craft pub and attempt to order Blue Moon (of which they don't have) only to settle on Abita Purple Haze in a pissed off compromise... Basically, it's more just a sign for me to steer clear, or at least just borrow a cigarette from them later and make fun of them for being assholes to their face when I'm good and drunk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 my qualms with drinking goose island, regardless of quality and history at this point, is that giving support to any of the big 3 is helping them keep their war on micros on. AB doesn't give a fuck about the product they put out, they give a fuck about turning a buck, exclusively. stone/dfh/new belgium might be big, but they're taking maybe 10-15% of 3% of the market? i don't think any of our current micros will, w/o being accrued by the big 3, grow to compete on that scale, and i don't think i would consider them on that level until they are effecting lobby groups/legislation that negatively affects micros. different strokes, not saying big guys can't be good--see sam adams and hops--but there's enough to choose from that isn't them that i don't need to. so far tonight: boulder beer hazed and infused canned, not really a fan as much as on draft. a couple torpedo tall boys, boulder mojo ipa. moving on to high life i think. lets stay drunk. its tuesday after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 oh and just fuck blue moon and blue moon drinkers. one of my best friends who started 'getting into beer' in the last year posted about whatever their new orange one is and how good it was and i just called him a faggot because its bullshit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 We are copping it here ten fold. The big TWO are taking up all our favourite brands, I even got approached about production levels by one of them. It's fucked. I'm going to continue swingin' dick at them all, but I kind of know they'll win in the end. :/ I even had my mate poached by a Japanese owned syndicate so he's brewing with them now. Sucks, yo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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