Toppling Goliath in Chicago (2018)

It's actually horsepiss, utterly undrinkable, sorry about your taste buds

 

I was referring to the barrel aged whalez portion

Everyone knows true "advocates" only drink <1 day old IPAs and >10 years aged barrled aged whalez

 

Just picked up 3/1 Tsunami cans that were sitting next to 1/6 Navaja cans. We're seeing a glitch in the matrix.

 

The other day there was a Toppling Goliath tasting event at Bitter Pops, and I was told from someone who worked at Bitter Pops that he had heard that the expansion Toppling Goliath is doing of their Iowa brewery, will be sufficient enough that both bottles and cans will come out of Decorah as of fall 2017. So fingers crossed now, that the bottling won't come out of Florida after whenever the expansion work is finished!

 

I wouldn't hold my breath on that completely, they have two different contract breweries already on the rolls (Florida BrewHub and Wisconsin Brewing) and at some point BrewHub will finish it's St. Louis location, putting it much closer to TG'S current market footprint.

Now this is a bit of a guess on my part but contract brewing got TG into the current market footprint and I don't see them just abandoning that setup at least right away. Why wouldn't they leave it in place and use it to enter and supply more areas? I could very easily see Missouri and the rest of Illinois being the next couple of areas to add without much effort by leaving the current setup in place once the new Decorah brewery is up and running full steam.

 

This is our plan. Our new build is a 100 bbl brewery. We hope to finish the project this October and by early in 2018 we should be firing on all cylinders. Out of the gate we will have the capacity of 26,000+ barrels a year, but the building itself is designed to handle 100,000 bbl a year just by growing our tank farm. The plan is to continue our partnership with Brew Hub FL and sell that beer in other markets, we currently sell in FL around the Tampa area. The midwest beer will be made, bottled and canned in Decorah. We have purchased a state of the art Krones canning line and are looking forward to the suppling you with our creations - fresh and dated. Cheers

 

Just picked up some Golden Nugget from the Arlington Heights Binny's that was born on 2-27. Freshest I've seen out this way and was happy I could finally plop down my dollars. hopefully this is a sign of good things to come.

 

Nice I literally just did the same. With that said, TG bombers can't come soon enough in my opinion. I would buy those by the case if I could.

 

Understandable. I've done it a few times.

"How much per bottle? $10 per you say? Yeah, Ill take the whole case."

 

I should load up my car with cases of it and become Santa for you guys.

 

We wouldn't say no.

 

You'd only come once a year and when you did, it would be down a chimney?

 

I'd like DDH PseudoSue, King Sue, Sosus, Pompeii, and Mosiac Golden Nugget. And yes I have been good this year.

 

**Most places give you a 10% discount for a case - just got to ask!
When I recently brought back 3 cases of DDH Sue to IL it was a beautiful thing.

 

You'll shoot your eye out kid

 

Man, to think I could get pretty close! King Sue is definitely not in the wild though. I've made SeanBond pretty happy to start out!

 

Golden Nugget is a gosh darn good beer.

 

Sounds more reliable than TG distro, tbh.