Brewery's unethical behavior in Chicago?

Discussion in 'Great Lakes' started by Flyway, Feb 1, 2013.

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  1. Flyway

    Flyway Initiate (0) Oct 22, 2012 Wisconsin

  2. MarcatGSB

    MarcatGSB Initiate (0) Jan 8, 2011 Michigan

    OMG, really? I read that tweet...Didn't think Beerpulse was, umm,...so desperate for news?
     
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  3. Flyway

    Flyway Initiate (0) Oct 22, 2012 Wisconsin

    Not sure I follow. I am assuming you are taking it as completely unsubstantiated twitter garbage (which is probably the correct assumption)?
     
  4. Bay01

    Bay01 Initiate (0) Nov 19, 2008 Illinois

    Hold the phone; unethical business practices? In Chicago!? Since he specifies a larger brewery, I've gotta assume he's talking about Lagunitas or Goose with the latter being more likely.
     
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  5. tinypyramids

    tinypyramids Pundit (897) Jul 19, 2012 Illinois

    holy shit, you mean the most corrupt city in the most corrupt state in the country has unethical business practices? shock! awe!

    dunno if he would consider goose to be craft. maybe he means deschutes?
     
  6. Vav

    Vav Savant (1,025) Jul 27, 2008 Illinois

    Hey guys, i'm now selling my BA posts & Tweets, FYI. So if you'd like to see the @beeradam account to respond to Greg's tweet, or the Vav account advertise your son's/daughter's birthday, BM a reasonable monetary offer.
     
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  7. MarcatGSB

    MarcatGSB Initiate (0) Jan 8, 2011 Michigan

    and that tweet was followed by someone (BeerPulse I think) asking him to call out who it was, and the response was something like "I don't call out brewers, I call out practices"...blah blah.
    I'm not making judgment at this point, but this is coming from the same guy that says German brewers are boring, and he's ready to change the culture over there. Come on Greg. If I had a dollar for everytime I saw a 6 month old Ruination on the shelf...
     
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  8. MarcatGSB

    MarcatGSB Initiate (0) Jan 8, 2011 Michigan

    YES, FUCK YES. Thank you.
     
  9. mecummins

    mecummins Initiate (0) Nov 16, 2012 Illinois

    You know, there's a brewery bus tour that's on my FB feed and they've been posting the same sort of cryptic junk for a few days now. Say what you mean or don't mention anything. We're not in high school.
     
  10. kzoobrew

    kzoobrew Initiate (0) May 8, 2006 Michigan

    The pay for play culture in Chicago has been known for a long time. Greg and Stone have always been a vocal opponent of this. If you have paid attention this is nothing new from Greg and he is not the only brewery to make similar comments. Deb Carey has made the comment that brewers call Chicago a "whore's market".
     
  11. Lansman

    Lansman Savant (1,104) Mar 19, 2011 Missouri
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    If this is in reference to what I think it is, anyone who knows what's going on in the current distributor environment in Chicago knows the brewery being referenced.
     
  12. MarcatGSB

    MarcatGSB Initiate (0) Jan 8, 2011 Michigan

    I must have missed the pictures of Greg beaten and bloodied with an apple tied in his mouth...
     
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  13. Etan

    Etan Initiate (0) Jul 11, 2011 Wisconsin

    What's the point of Tweeting about it if you're not going to give details. As it is now, it's just a vague, substanceless accusation of something or other against nobody in particular...
     
  14. mbockstruck30

    mbockstruck30 Pooh-Bah (1,776) Dec 31, 2010 Illinois
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    doesn't that pretty much sum up 90% of social media these days?
     
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  15. leedorham

    leedorham Initiate (0) Apr 27, 2006 Washington

    Don't quote me on this but I think there has been bad blood between Stone and Lagunitas in the past.

    Edit: Still would like to hear some details though.
     
  16. MarcatGSB

    MarcatGSB Initiate (0) Jan 8, 2011 Michigan

    Long haired hippy.
     
  17. ChefBergo

    ChefBergo Initiate (0) Nov 9, 2011 Illinois
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    I wouldn't think Goose because they are already part of AB-Inbev and as such have a decent distribution right? I'm not surprised by corrupt business practices at all...it is Chicago.
     
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  18. mbockstruck30

    mbockstruck30 Pooh-Bah (1,776) Dec 31, 2010 Illinois
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    C'mon people, isn't the big news here that AB is trying to buy out Grupo Modelo? If the price of Corona Light goes up...wait, I'll just stop there...
     
  19. evilc

    evilc Initiate (0) Jan 27, 2012 California

    Why did Greg grow a craft beard?

    Anyways - wonder what he is accusing Goose of doing.
     
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  20. kzoobrew

    kzoobrew Initiate (0) May 8, 2006 Michigan

    I think people are really overreacting to Greg's comments. This is nothing new. For some perspective, here is a portion of an article with the quote from Deb Carey I referenced before. No one is going to give Deb much of a hard time for her comments, they are not all that different from Gregs.

    http://www.chicagobusiness.com/arti...hicago-beer-market-crains-investigation-finds
     
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