TX Label Approvals

Bitches Brew was here in kegs. Would be nice to see some bottles for sure.

 

Lutter, you will be happy to know that Shipyard will be here soon. We (Favorite Brands LLC) met with their people last week to finalize our initial order. Unfortunalty, at this point it is now just a waiting game of when the beer going to be avail for pickup and shipping. But rest assured we will be pushing it out to market the day it hits our docks!

 

Which TX markets will they be available in? I've never had anything from Shipyard but I have heard good things about their pumpkin beer.

 

Man, you guys are starting to tear it up with beer. congrats! now if only the salespeople would get their acts together... dont know how many stores I have been to that say the rep has not been in in weeks...

 

looks like sixpoint is coming in too...
goose island has a couple approved labels... no not BCBS.

 

looks like hops and grain has a bourbon barrel barley wine coming

 

Excited about the Sixpoint. Goose Island still confusing. There are label approvals going back to '09. Yet the only thing from Goose Island we have ever gotten has been the sodas here recently. Label approval here ain't cheap. Confused why they would get approval way back when if they weren't distributing here. Supposedly they will be here by years end.

 

It's good to the Texas expansions continue to roll in. Looking forward to some good new brewery's! And which markets will Shipyard be in?

 

i'm surprised you all are excited about shipyard stuff. I have never had anything that was great by them. pretty average craft beer if you ask me.

 

I have some bithches brew if anyone in DFW wants to set up an IP trade for it. Im comming down to DFW the weekend of the 23rd

 

Ill throw my hat into the shipyard beer love.

being from Ne originally(but my heart is here in austin) i can say that i love that brewery.

 

Thank you, we are doing what we can. Please feel free to let me know which stores these are that are saying they have not seen us in weeks and we will get them covered, as we grow there will be bumps in the road but I know we will do our best to smooth it all out.
We will have shipyard for the state (from what I have been told) so you will see it first in the DFW, Houston markets first and then expansion from there.
With concern with shipyard being average, you know what maybe they are but I would gladly argue that 80-90% of the craft beer that is consumed on a daily basis is average. Remember average is not a bad thing, it is what drives the industry. I have had two styles from shipyard so far, the chamberlin pale and the black fin stout. The CP is a good pale but the BF stout I thought was wicked good.

 

Shipyard.. ???... love butter...

 

A Texas BA Barleywine? Right on! Is it suppose to be bottled/distributed?

 

probably not, hops and grain only does cans in austin, and anything besides their two mainstays is draft only.

 

I agree with Crusian...This would be Shipyard's 3rd attempt in Texas. The only beer of theirs that did well was their Pumpkinhead. We couldn't give the others away. But, in all fairness, we have not got their Imperial Series(XXX) 22oz bottles before. With the growth of craft beer in Texas, especially from local brewers, average doesn't cut it any more.

 

The barley wine is one of their Greenhouse beers which they brew on a three barrel system so availability is going to be very limited indeed. It's being aged in both bourbon and wine barrels and I hear should be out in the next month or two.