Maine Dinner Release

If it's so overhyped and unworthy, why are you here complaining about how it's distributed?

 

What's with all this whining? MBC makes beer and sells beer. They choose what to make and how to sell it. If you don't like their choices, go elsewhere. New England is overflowing with quality local beer these days. The sense of entitlement is absurd.

 

Because derailing conversations about overhyped hipster beer is a hobby of mine

Plus I'm a capitalist so businesses and their methods interest me. I generally try to avoid supporting businesses with silly business practices

 

Do you know anything about how breweries manage their releases and ingredients? "Just make more" is usually the cry of those who don't understand that ingredient supplies and brewery capacity are limited and limiting.

 

Entitlement? I could give a fuck about getting MBC. Was just in Portland the other week and I didn't even visit MBC because it's hyped up beyond belief. Which is my entire point. People that buy tickets to stand in line for beer and people that camp out for beer are just adding to the bullshit hype surrounding craft beer. Plenty of breweries exist and many of them make excellent beer, but they barely see any traffic because they have no social media presence and aren't hyped up on every craft beer website.

But once that hypetrain starts building it just grows and grows. Look at Tilted Barn in Rhode Island. 4 months ago you could walk in and walk out in 5 minutes and as much beer as they could legally sell you. Now they sell out every day within an hour of opening.

 

Did I ever say "make more?" They can easily limit their "limited release" to a bottle per person, but nope, they want to sell a case to each person. So clearly they don't care about how many customers get the beer, they care about building hype and selling out.

 

Your answer is to limit supply further on a per-person basis? Would that not have the unintended effect of ramping hype up further, and encouraging mules?

 

So... "hipsters" are ruining beer by buying lots of it when word spreads that it's good, but you're not a "hipster" because you prefer to go to places before they're popular and "hyped"...?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

 

I guess my point is that why come here and complain about hype? So you don't think MBC is worth a visit...fine. Don't underestimate other's actual appreciation of their beer and how it tastes.

 

subby>lunch all day

 

I happen to agree, but everyone has different tastes. Not everyone is going to feel that way.

 

I love me some BB, but Lux is what really revs my engine from them.

 

depends on the batch, but yeah can't argue with you there

 

And on the "beers better than Lunch in Portland" trip, Battery Steele's DDH Kineo is out of this world. At least, I think the ones I got were DDH... it was written on the board, but not on the can.

 

I don't know where you shop but I'd like to go! The lowest I've ever seen MBC bottles for is just below $7. Going rate $8-9. I'll pass and keep drinking much better beer for half that, thanks.

 

Mostly VT. Live on the border. I don't buy much anyways, just was curious what prices people were seeing.

 

I actually wish more and more releases would be ticketed. It's not like it's anything new. Breweries have been doing it for years.

As well as sports, concerts, etc.

 

Lol no, hipsters are ruining beer by hyping up mediocre beers and acting like getting a bottle is like finding the holy Grail. It's like the first time you try heady topper..... You realize it's all a bunch of hype over nothing.

Except when you buy tickets to a concert or sporting event you have already purchased the goods. It's more akin to buying tickets just to get a chance to buy the actual tickets. Poor analogy.

 

Ah, I see, you're taking the "Dinner and Heady are lame beers" tact. Bold strategy, Cotton, and it's absolutely moved the goalposts away from "Selling tickets is a shitty business strategy!" as that particular argument seems to have failed.

So what are a few readily-available beers that have no lines to buy and that are better than Heady and Dinner? And is Tilted Barn now not worth buying since there's lines?

Edit to add a timeline:

You complained that selling tickets for a beer release sucks.
You were presented with the alternative option of first-come-first-serve.
You complained about first-come-first-serve sucking because people camp out.
You explicitly stated that making more of the product is not what you propose.
You stated that you don't even want any MBC beers.
You went on a tangent about how "hipsters" buying the beer sucks.

Do you have a proposed solution, or are you simply here to be "edgy" and complain about crowds at breweries? Because you've strayed rather far afield from your starting point of ticketed releases being an unfair way of doing rare beer releases. Let's try to bring this back home and maybe make an actual point.

 

Beer is far too popular now to keep blaming everything on "hipsters". We are the hipsters now, the hipsters are us. Always was, it just became a thing to call anyone who likes something you like in a way you don't approve of a hipster.

Don't like what MBC does? Don't go. I went to get dinner once. It was run terribly so I never tried again. I will grab Another One on draft if I see it around but that's where it ends for me with MBC. Somehow I live my life as I always did.