tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post6094722036275646472..comments2024-01-29T10:16:00.995+00:00Comments on CALLED TO THE BAR : Do you want to be in my (beer) gang?Adrian Tierney-Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-74623161502067653562009-10-26T11:11:02.320+00:002009-10-26T11:11:02.320+00:00Knut — what’s the point of reviewing it if no one ...Knut — what’s the point of reviewing it if no one else can drink it? I can see the point in reviewing it even if it were limited edition and you had to pay 100 quid for the honour, or writing about it as an event, covering it in the context of what the brewery is doing, but a straightforward review of a beer that no one can get reads like lording it over the rest of us mere mortals…Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-21461884491452283482009-10-26T08:35:23.004+00:002009-10-26T08:35:23.004+00:00As long as BrewDog are willing to send me bottles ...As long as BrewDog are willing to send me bottles of their most exclusive stuff, I'm happy to drink it and review it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-52810956049970847082009-10-24T09:02:51.908+01:002009-10-24T09:02:51.908+01:00Regardless of any issues around democracy, my reac...Regardless of any issues around democracy, my reaction to lots of limited edition mail-order-only specials is to give up and not bother -- I don't have time to pick them up from the Post Office (nothing every actually gets *delivered*) or to drink them. And there's a slight fear: what if the limited edition beer is the best beer I ever have and they never make it again!?Baileyhttp://boakandbailey.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-17024384248960304142009-10-22T08:35:14.730+01:002009-10-22T08:35:14.730+01:00Beantown — am not criticising so much as commentin...Beantown — am not criticising so much as commenting on the trend and musing whether craft beer will reach out to Joe Sixpack (whom I presume we all want to see put down the Bud Light and pick up a, say, Terrapin India Style Brown Ale or over here see Carlsberg heads start raving about Herold Dark) when we have a lot of exclusives.<br />Joe — I think I was partly motivated by a remembering a story from last year when some brewery — Russian River perhaps — was putting out specials and they were peeved to find them on e-bay. I remember Mark Dorber saying to me once: ‘beer is for drinking’.Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-51740026480205393952009-10-22T07:11:24.411+01:002009-10-22T07:11:24.411+01:00One of my favorite breweries back home in the Stat...One of my favorite breweries back home in the States is Boulevard. Lately they've been putting out a really exceptional (and expensive) line of 75cl bottles called the Smokestack Series. My favorite among them was the Saison... not tarted up with Brett or fruit or anything, just plain old highly drinkable Saison. I'd hoped it would do well enough to make the jump to six-packs and kegs -- shapes more affordable and fitting for a beer better gulped than just sipped. Instead I learned that they're discontinuing it for another very special Brett beer that will no doubt command a very special price.<br /><br />Simple solution if we're annoyed by the precious bottles: stop drinking them.Joe Stangehttp://www.thirstypilgrim.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-7256853722838595832009-10-21T17:50:25.472+01:002009-10-21T17:50:25.472+01:00So more beer-variety in the market place is someho...So more beer-variety in the market place is somehow causing it to be undemocratic? Also, how is an informed consumer-population less democratic than a passive, dare I say, ignorant consumer base? How does that work?<br /><br />The craft beer industry represents exactly that – educated choices, with choice really being paramount. I have no problem with a bud light in my hand, so long as it is the beer that I wanted there and not the only option I have in the market place.<br /><br />I’ll never judge a man for making a sandwich with Kraft-singles, so long as I can still make mine with Gouda.Beantown Brewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720361989385950590noreply@blogger.com