Something Awesome about Yellow Rose

Plenty of breweries that do world-class IPAs are able to release much sooner than a week after bottling. La Cumbre for example releases Project Dank, Full Nelson, and others the same day. Obviously that's insanely fast, but Stone Enjoy By is also able to get to store shelves in Texas within a week of being brewed in California. Obviously both of those brewers are much bigger outfits than Lone Pint, but surely after the kinks are worked out a local release to Houston shouldn't take a full week. All I'm saying is that I'll stick to growler fills for now.

 

Out of curiosity, what makes you think the kegs that you're getting growler fills are less then a week old?

 

just stop, please.

 

Really hope this is a weak troll attempt.

 

I am a "drinking well" away from bingo on this thread

 

So the obvious question now, do you switch your bottle in hand for one of the two that you're eyeing on the shelf ?

It's a 33% chance that you'll wind up with the "old" bottle in any case, right???

 

Hell man, how can you even wait? If you buy it, take it home, stick it in the fridge, that is another 3 hours before it is cold. Drink it there right off of the shelf warm. Only safe way to do it.

 

That's an entirely fair question, and you're right I don't know. But a week-old IPA bottle or can is what I expect to get when I trade for an IPA, they're purchased within a day or two of bottling/canning typically and spend a few days being shipped out to me. If we want Texas to be on the same level with IPAs as California, Vermont, and all the others big boys, we can't have our IPAs sitting in a warehouse for a week+ when comparable beers across the country are being released much faster.

 

I spit my mtn dew everywhere

 

And there's your problem. No need to get so caught up in Texas being on the "same level" as other states. Drink the local beers, enjoy the local beers, and then enjoy what you trade for too. It's not (shouldn't be) a contest.

 

The problem is you are buying IPAs to trade and not to enjoy.

 

Who trades for IPA's anyway. Those are extra's...

 

People who are too good to drink our local IPAs that are a week old.

 

The problem here is less with the brewery and more with the hoops that a brewery has to jump through. Even if they have a beer ready to go the day it's bottled, once it's turned over to a distributor it's handling is out of the breweries control. Once it's sold to a bar, it's even further out of the brewer's hands. If you bought an IPA from TX that was bottled with out additional O2, stored cold and in the dark the whole time, it will be fresher then the IPA you traded for even if its bottle date is older, because it was cared for correctly and not sitting in a hot Fedex truck. At two weeks at 34F a beer will age and degrade much slower then a week at 80F. How hot do you think it gets in the back of a truck in the sun?

 

That's why I only drink IPAs if they are being poured directly from the bright tank and into my mouth.

 

I'm an advocate for Texas beers. Most all of the beer I drink is Texan. I LOVE Yellow Rose. Everyone I've ever sent Yellow Rose to has also loved it. It's a top-5 IPA for me without question. I drink a lot of it whenever I see it. I've driven to Houston from Dallas just to get a growler of it. I want Texas beers to get the respect they deserve nationwide. I know the laws here are a big impediment. Texas was one of the top few performers at GABF this year, but when people talk about the best beer states in the country, we never get mentioned. I don't know why it's "trolling" to want that to change.

 

It's trolling to dismiss a quality, local, IPA because it's been bottled for a week so you can't trade it because of a self-imposed deadline.

 

I don't think I ever dismissed it. I'll happily drink a bunch of week old bottles, my only deadline on drinking IPAs is a month or so. All I said was that hopefully in the future, as they expand further, sell more Yellow Rose, and streamline the process, they can get it to the shelves sooner, like would be expected in any other state that produces an IPA as good as this one. I've also never traded Yellow Rose, it's only ever been a gift.

 

Wah wah

 

Side by side, bitches.