Bruery 2016 RS/HS Allocations

I am quite certain there are a lot more than 50 out of state members.
The out of state members are probably preferred as they do not take advantage of the "local benefits" like parties etc. They simply buy beer.

 

Edit: Nevermind... I didn't realize you were talking about the east coast receiving center. I agree that would be a colossal waste of time and effort, despite my obvious benefit from such a development.

 

I haven't, but damn it'd save money. Depends on the State, but for example Georgia uses the three tier system so a brewery cannot sell direct to a retailer, period. Beer has to go through a distributor first, regardless of where it comes from. So for example, and it's fucking stupid, Creature Comforts out of Athens, GA ships their entire stock to Savannah Distributing in Atlanta, who then ships 70% of it right back to retailers in Athens. Even local breweries looking to buy their own product have to go through a retailer, so if a Creature Comforts employee wanted a keg of their beer, it would go to distro, then to retail, then to the employee. Same for a brewery doing a dinner or planned event, they cannot take stock from the brewery to supply the event, it has to go to distro first. Retailers (like me) and consumers (also me) have been fighting to change the three tier system forever, but distributors have a TON of money in GA, and they pay the lobbyists a shit ton more than we ever will be able to. Basically a distributor is just a brokerage with a warehouse, they cover shipping costs across State lines, but they make a good 20-30% to just hold the beer until it goes to a retailer. So there will never be a day, at least in GA, where a brewery could direct ship to a retailer. They could ship to a consumer if the laws were right, but there's still shipping costs involved. But the brewery would have to include insurance, signature, etc, so shipping would easily reach $50-55 for a full case if they were to do it. Most breweries don't have the time or logistics to do shipping, nor do they want to worry about the laws of who can and can't receive alcohol.

For me it's about $45 for a full case of Bruery beers shipped to my work, and $30 to ship an empty shipper back to CA, which is gotdamn ridiculous. I've actually started just drop shipping new shippers from UHaul though, as they do free shipping on orders over $50 so I can ship as many shippers as I can afford and it costs me just the price of the box ($11.95), vs sending an empty box back across the country at $30 each.

The Bruery would also have to deal with ABV cap laws, GA is 14%, so anything shipping to distro has to be under that. Every State is different, but that'd be a huge hiccup for a lot of their beers.

 

I cannot seem to find any 12 bottle shippers anymore on uhaul, do you use 6?

 

They always go in and out of stock on the 12's. They'll be back soon.

 

They come and go. There have been times when 3 and 6 were out of stock online but I could buy a slew of 12s.

 

Thanks, they have just always been in stock when I checked before.

 

My condolences to out of staters. I'm within CA and when I get my 12-bottle ships from The Bruery I stick the empty shipper in the recycle bin. It feels so wasteful, but I have no idea what else to do with them.

I have no idea if it would help save anyone any money, but I'd be happy to tape it shut empty and slap a shipping label on it to send to anyone that sends a prepaid shipping label for USPS, UPS, or Fedex (those are the ones I know come to my office regularly).

 

I've been buying the 12 bottle shippers that they started selling recently from the bruery's tasting room. Actually those boxes with the packaging is awesome. Better than the Styrofoam ones IMO.

 

Well said (even though it's a sad tale). Reminds me of this:

http://edibleeastbay.com/online-magazine/summer-2015/the-three-tier-roadblock/

 

I have a buddy who is a heavy RS orderer who I ship to, and he sells the shippeRS locally for $10 a pop. If you live in a sense area that might be a good solution.

 

I do 12, I just order online and they drop ship from whatever warehouse has them I think. Last set came from St. Louis.

I thought about doing that too with my old ones.

 

That's exactly GA for all forms of alcohol. People new to the State are literally dumbstruck when they try to walk into a brewery for lunch or to buy a 6pk of beer and realize the brewery is closed or can't sell to them. Even people who live here but don't know the laws are surprised. A new brewery opened recently just North of Atlanta in Roswell, near one of our stores, and I had to inform everyone asking about them that they could only go one night a week or Saturday afternoon for a tour, and they couldn't bring home anything. They really were clueless to it, I guess it's just assumed breweries are open every day and sell every day because in most States that's the norm.

 

That is like....just....oh man. Now I feel even more spoiled that I can go grab a burrito and walk into Alesmith at 11am and get a few speedways at the bar.

 

Checkout Uline.com they always have several types

 

FML
I'm so bummed its August and they decide not to release SITR w/pineapple and coconut. It wouldn't surprise me if they held this one over for next year.
All this talk about waiting to see what's up are sleeves is getting old.

 

the label has surfaced, so im sure its not far off, if not september.

 

I hope it's September. I don't want to be drinking some tropical yumminess in the cold days of November and by cold I mean 65 degrees.

 

Was going to say... most of us live in a state where winter doesn't exist, save in the mountains.

 

Sorry I'm a bit later to the party on this, but I don't think they would ever get rid of memberships. If they can sell it to the customer, they don't have to sell it at a discount to the distributor, who then has to sell it at a discount to the retailer. Its all cash in their pockets.