Goose Island won me back

Discussion in 'Beer Talk' started by ZDub, Jul 13, 2013.

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  1. chinabeergeek

    chinabeergeek Pooh-Bah (1,837) Aug 10, 2007 Massachusetts
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    is the nut brown ale back into nationwide bottle distribution? until then, i remain ambivalent.
     
  2. IceAce

    IceAce Pooh-Bah (2,220) Jan 8, 2004 California
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    It's nice to see that, thus far...they haven't blown it.
     
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  3. Takeanotherswing

    Takeanotherswing Initiate (0) Jan 14, 2011 New York
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    That sounds like a strange view... you basically hope the beer industry becomes closer to becoming a monopoly, and less diverse, so that you can get all the beer around the country... I love Juliet, Lolita, Madame Rose, BCBS, and Sofie Paradisi, but I wouldn't want companies to be bought over by the "Evil Giant" just so it would be more convenient to me.
     
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  4. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,145) Mar 12, 2009 New York
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    And that sounds like a strange view.

    The beer industry is on track to have close to 3000 breweries by the end of the next 5 years, and craft beer has been growing 12% annually, during a recession. Despite the "evil giant" (more like uncoordinated and ineffective doofus if you want to characterize ABI by their results) trying to stop them.

    My gosh when are folks going to stop repeating ridiculous assertions that are so easily contradicted by a quick look at reality.

    And I see nothing wrong with desiring Bells to be purchased by some company who can actually distribute to those who don't get it now. Is there something wrong with wanting as much Bell's Expedition stout as we now get of BCBS?
     
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  5. Takeanotherswing

    Takeanotherswing Initiate (0) Jan 14, 2011 New York
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    The industry has been growing more and more, though I believe at some point, years from now, the bubble will burst...

    But.. The idea seems selfish in wanting the staple craft breweries that have been making great beer and have been innovative in their time to be bought over by InBev just so you can go to your local shop and pick some up. At which point, might not even be the same beer based on the quantity and more involved in ingredients than the beers InBev has been brewing. There have been many rumblings from brewers and craft industry workers about how InBev conducts its business with bars and distributors around the country, trying to bribe and use illegal inducements to sell their product and not the "little guy's". It's not like they're going to make the whole craft beer world a perfect place. At some point they'll probably buy over another big brewery name, and everyone will keep flip flopping their view.
     
  6. BrettHead

    BrettHead Initiate (0) Sep 18, 2010 Nebraska

    What bubble? *sigh*
     
  7. bleakies

    bleakies Maven (1,319) Apr 11, 2011 Massachusetts

    I don't have any opposition to Goose Island, but if one of your pals was threatened by a house fire while another friend was drowning in the pool, and you knew you couldn't save both, would you therefore not try to save either? You know, for the sake of consistency?
     
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  8. beerindaglass

    beerindaglass Zealot (645) Feb 20, 2013 Florida
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    Goose Island... I can leave em. Since all we have access to (and after talking to the distro will only have access to for the forseable future) is three beers that are well below the competition, I have no idea how good their beer can be. Scores of 74, 84, etc. won't get a beer purchase from me.

    All the beers they brew and they send their worst three to a huge market like Florida. Genius!!!
     
  9. rundownhouse

    rundownhouse Initiate (0) Sep 15, 2005 Tennessee

    I'm the opposite as most as when AB bought them I had no problems with them, but as the exodus of long-time, experienced GI workers has grown, I've decided to stop buying GI beers. It's very similar to the exodus of AB brewers when they were bought by InBev.
     
  10. utopiajane

    utopiajane Initiate (0) Jun 11, 2013 New York


    I've got one - Goose Island people shop at Talbots, Harpoon'ers at the army navy store and people who drink Ommegang wear keychains on their belts and put out subversive pamphlets. :rolling_eyes:

    If you want to keep beer out of the monopoly then think that craft is a local commodity. While ticking and trying every beer is a great hobby, when the dust settles and you go to buy your six pack; can you choose a local?
     
  11. bleakies

    bleakies Maven (1,319) Apr 11, 2011 Massachusetts

    I don't follow your analogy, but as to your question, Yes.

    I just now returned from the packy where I picked up a sixer of Notch Pils and one of Newburyport Green Head IPA, and a couple Pretty Things bombers. It was an unintentionally homercentric set of purchases, only saved from complete provincialism by the Ayinger dunkel and the Weihenstephaner dunkelweizen singles that also leapt into my basket.
     
  12. utopiajane

    utopiajane Initiate (0) Jun 11, 2013 New York

    Save the local. That is all.

    Tell me that they (GI) are not gonna suffer some loss of quality and I wont' believe it. Also how big do you have to get before you decide you can ride roughshod over the environment? or the people who work for you?

    I'll leave you with one last image. Sandra bullock and sly stallone (I think) in a movie where every restaurant is taco bell - :grimacing:
     
  13. BeerMeInStl

    BeerMeInStl Initiate (0) Jan 26, 2013 Missouri

    I'd just like to know why I can never find any BCBS here in St. Louis. I can easily find everything else that GI makes but not BCBS.
     
  14. Dupage25

    Dupage25 Savant (1,020) Jul 4, 2013 Antarctica


    BCBS is unevenly distributed and demand for it is actually quite haphazard. In D.C. you can still find it on the shelf in a few stores, and I don't mean out of the way places with no traffic either. Most likely demand exceeded supply or there wasn't much demand (and thus supply).

    It all evens out though. You guys get quick and frequent access to Sixth Glass and Dark Truth, which I've slowly and painfully discovered are not as easy to get in Boulevard's distribution arc as Missouri, Iowa and Illinois would make it seem....
     
  15. sacrelicio

    sacrelicio Pooh-Bah (1,826) Feb 15, 2005 Minnesota
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    08 Matilda is awesome
     
  16. aasher

    aasher Grand Pooh-Bah (4,471) Jan 27, 2010 Indiana
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    This is just a reminder of how stupid and childish it is to boycott Goose because of who owns them. It is still Goose Island not Goose Island Brought to you by AB.
     
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  17. brandon911

    brandon911 Initiate (0) Mar 15, 2011 Texas

    I had Matilda on tap at GI in O'hare airport and didn't find it great. Is it better bottled or just the fact I was having it in an airport making it merely okay?
     
  18. spicoli00

    spicoli00 Pooh-Bah (2,231) Jul 6, 2005 Indiana
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    Did you see his avatar? Jerry lives and he apparently has taken up craft beer since he doesn't have to tour anymore

    That being said, I started drinking gi in about 1997. Give me that hex nut brown! Love that they can start producing this again.
     
  19. jaxon53

    jaxon53 Pooh-Bah (2,181) Mar 1, 2006 Connecticut
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    Just a quick question. If somehow AB/INBEV bought GI under the radar, and no one knew, would anyone hate on GI? Would this thread exist? Just go out and enjoy what you like!
     
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