Highland Park Brewery thread

Is doing away with online sales an option? It didn't occur to me that that could happen, but now that you mention it, FW did away with online sales for Parabajava and I guess Alpine dabbled with it in the past only to remove it. Bob strikes me as someone that's in touch with reality so I don't see him doing away with online sales.

 

nodes, beerbro, nodes. (if you haven't noticed i dont know what i'm saying at all)

 

You'll never please everyone. I'd hate onsite sales. I'd do my best to make them, but I wouldn't be happy about it.

 

I don't think they have the time, space, patience or any other factors for on-site only. It's foolish. The goal is to move that product because they literally have no room and if one of them has to be around for on-site purchase only, it takes away from the business and their jobs and brewing.

They did on-site for the anniversary week last time and the fact remains, they would be sitting on too much beer if they had to wait for the slowly trickling in purchases.

Yeah, they get a few minute sell out on this one, but they need those proxies for the stuff that doesn't move so fast or have stone fruit and/or BA. So there's really no other way than online sales.

Side note, they do have them in the fridge for on site consumption a lot. Hell, Woodshop 10 sat there for a solid week without anyone touching it. That is what they do and it's a great solution to the problem of "but it taste better out of the bottle".

 

Online sales should be adapted by most Brewery.
Since most people have a JOB and really cant get take off work to pick up beer

 

I think we discussed this whole job thing in depth of pretty much every in-person release, but not everybody works a M-Fri 9-5.

 

No matter how the sale is done. When it comes to low production and HIGH demands, someones gonna get butt hurt about.

 

Most definitely. Hell, I know the person that is picking mine up for me (thankfully I made it through) got shut out but she is still being kind enough to grab my bottles. I missed out on that smog city cranberry and she didn't. So to ease our collective pain we are just opening up the cranberry and the hammered satin for each other. Still get to drink and share the beer either way.

 

Alice's restaurant is always a fun one 17+ min of Arlo Guthrie. I have cleared rooms with that song.

 

Mine is usually Slayer's - Raining Blood. Who knew a lot of san diegans didn't like metal? When that fails though I try Cattle Decapitation's - Forced Gender Reassignment....then the metalheads come in. So then I leave but put on Spice Girls - Wannabe just to be that guy.

 

I'm pretty sure I've expressed my strong disdain for in-person releases so I'd never be in favor of doing away with online sales. Anyway, it's inevitable that folks are going to strike out on releases with such low bottle counts and high demand. Any rational person should expect that. It's the idea of losing out to out-of-state folks that irks people.

 

Or you just play the locust and creep everyone out

 

There is/was a bangin' loud jukebox at the Fatburger on Wilshire in West LA that had DJ Shadow's 'Entroducing' album. Used to go there on lazy hangover days, grub out and crank that mf'r...

 

When I leave AleSmith Wednesday I'll cue up a series of atrocious tunes you can appreciate if you stop by later. It'll be the saddest geocache ever.

 

On a side note to all the proxy drama, I went to City Beer Store in SF Yesterday and was stoked to see GJG for in house consumption. Not as stoked when told the price was $35.

 

^That's BS right there.

 

That's how you stick it to NON-locals and show them that HPB really cares about LA!

 

Seems typical for City Beer Store in-house pricing

 

Holy shit, so not going to stop at City Beer on our 101 trip next weekend.

 

Ha. Yea I had read that it was a good spot to go but draft list was average at best. They had some pretty good in house beers but all were pretty pricey. A group next to me got a Firestone 17th for $45.