Grimm of the Future

Purple Prose is 22 oz.

 

No its a bomber despite the small feels

 

Huh? A bomber is a 22oz bottle.

 

I'm not sure you know what you're talking about here...

 

Sorry, meant 16, all this confusion... numbers are hard. I should probably not post while talking to coworkers because brain does not compute.

Anyway back on topic: Who's ready for BA Double Negative? I'm really looking forward to trying it, hopefully finding a bottle won't be as difficult though it seems like it may be more.

 

If a store can't "handle" having Grimm maybe they shouldn't be getting Grimm. Just take the lazy store owners off the list who don't want free marketing and keep the ones on who do. Your beer sells out instantly, you don't need a bunch of dumbasses telling you how to run your business. YOUR customers like the list. [I know the list is searchable, I just don't like the Grimm being told what to do.]

 

I think its tough. The stores are also their customers, the only way for Grimm to get their beer to us is through them.

 

Maybe those stores think it's not worth their time to field a stream of calls about whether Grimm is in yet from people who've never shopped there before and don't buy anything else when they go pick them up?

Not saying that's you but clearly it happens enough that it's not worth their margin, why else would they ask Grimm to not publish the list?

 

Was coming in this thread to relay this exact info. Seems like they got quite a bit. Bunch on the rack, more in a box too. Sours aren't my thing, so I didn't ask a price, sorry.

 

fyi, there are still two bottles of DN at Murray's. At $22.99 I imagine it will continue to sit there.

Can only imagine what they'll be charging for BADN next week...

 

I went to pick one up there and it rung up as BADN. Didn't get it. So, hopefully that was just an error and BADN won't be higher than that.

 

DN was also under the SKU number for BADN at Eataly. Off putting, but I hope the price stays put.

 

Personally, I go where the Grimm is not where the account is. If they could put Grimm a bunch of stores that were willing to make sure the fans got what they wanted, I would go to those stores. Support the people that know what they have, not the stores that think its all about them. Its not at the level of headyspotter yet but at the rate its going it could be.

 

That's exactly the point @NJNYC732 is making though. You're going where Grimm is and you're only going for Grimm beer. The supply is so small that stores aren't making tons of money selling the beer. It genuinely might be more economical to not carry the beer at all and then not have to answer questions about it. Check in with City Swiggers, Good Beer, Top Hops, Carmine, or any of the other nyc stores before a big release like KBS and ask how many times a day they're bugged about that single beer even as they have tons of other great barrel aged beers on the shelf!

I don't know why you think you deserve support from the brewer or why you have such a cynical view of the relationship between stores and suppliers.

 

Yeah: beer advocacy is not about making sure we as beer hobbyists get everything we want. It's about (among other things) supporting a culture in which the makers and sellers of beer get to make beer and to sell it on terms that provide them real livelihoods. If you're against Corporate Beer, you should also be against Consumerist Beer.

 

lol @ headyspotter..

 

Seriously though. If I'm buying it and creating demand, what else matters? If i wasn't buying it, neither supplier nor store would be in business!

 

Heady is much, much easier to get/find than Grimm cans.

 

You? - I mean, sure, the customer is always right. But that doesn't mean the customer's not a self-centered prick. That is, if your demand for one single product taxes the seller's capacities to conduct business on a reasonably profitable scale, well, who needs you? The amount of time dealing with calls and visits and so forth ISO one not-that-profitable product makes that product less appealing, as product, to the seller; and thus to the maker, who then finds fewer sellers for it. If all you want from beer culture is that you get a happy ending, then you are not thinking any more wholistically than the suits at AmBevomit, and have accepted that being pandered to is the only correct way of living.