Great Notion

MT collab (effective dreams) is a nice soft ipa. Dangerously quaffable, not a showstopper by any means. Beautiful can design too.

 

My Dad had their pale wheat collab with MT, Fantasy Islands. He liked it.

Hazy Hype Beer Friendship Network!

They probably know each other.

 

Secret Handshake is probably the name of the beer.

 

It's been going this way for the past few weeks. For sure same day, but not quite in 3.5hrs. Hopefully the line life doesn't come next.

 

I think it has to do less with growing popularity (even though their popularity is certainly growing) and more on the beer being released and how much they made of it. In my experience, how much of the release beer GN decides to brew is the primary factor. Many of the releases I've been to certainly haven't sold out on the first day.

 

They always seem to have at least one beer available for crowler, but might not be the big hyped one that people are lusting after.

 

did something change with double stack>?? why are crowlers selling out?

Its a nice enough beer, but to my memory you can always get a crowler of it and its almost always on draft when I go to GN

 

I don't think it's been available in a crowler for a while but I could be wrong. I do remember when it was more available in the past and they didn't do announced releases for it, but there's a lot more hype for GN around the country and I'm seeing a ton of ISOs for DS that I didn't see then.

 

Double Stack is pretty nice for about 4 ounces and then I'm done. Way too much butter and syrup going on in that beer for me. Can't imagine 32 ounces of it.

 

Anyone tried Strawberry Shortcake? Big fan boy of Blueberry Muffin, does it capture the notes of SS as good as BM?

 

A couple places in Seattle have kegs of GN beer right now. Teku is having an event Saturday and tapping juice jr, strawberry shortcake and mandela. And it looks like Chucks Greenwood has Juice Jr on now

 

I really enjoyed it, but it falls short of Blueberry Muffin for me. The great part about BM (to me anyways) is the combination of the blueberry with that biscuity flavor. I think that is what makes it Blueberry Muffin as opposed to any other blueberry sour. Strawberry Shortcake, while very good, was missing that component. Reminded me of strawberry soda.

 

As I mentioned in the NEIPA thread ... I have no problem with sending some good stuff to our friends up North from time to time. However, when you can't make enough beer to keep beer on your own taproom lines then maybe sending kegs all over the place isn't the best idea? Just seems like common sense to me, but what do I know.

 

Gotta build dat hype bro, gotta build dat hype.

 

I think the hype is already there based on people from all over the country wanting to drink their beers. I've experienced the same thing at Cellarmaker. Sometimes Dobis is gone in two days because they sent out too much of it to other bay area spots. Not a big deal to me because they have plenty of other great brews to drink and I know it will be back.