Your Biggest Wrong Or Right Beer Predictions From Past

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  1. dgmirelli

    dgmirelli Initiate (0) Mar 21, 2015 New York


    or the familiarity of the 32oz Growler....
     
    #101 dgmirelli, Jan 6, 2018
  2. surfcaster

    surfcaster Initiate (0) Apr 20, 2013 North Carolina
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    Right: Sierra Nevada will remain strong and relevant and maintain appeal to the spectrum of beer drinkers

    Wrong: the fruit juice beer craze would wane--boy was that really wrong

    and @TongoRad, I agree, a Heady or (or for me a SOS) are not fruit juice beers.
     
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  3. utopiajane

    utopiajane Grand Pooh-Bah (3,982) Jun 11, 2013 New York
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    You forgot librarian.
     
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  4. utopiajane

    utopiajane Grand Pooh-Bah (3,982) Jun 11, 2013 New York
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    Woody you can put my beer in a CAN please. CAN you dig it. Yes I CAN. Cans for the CANtankerous CANcise, CANgenital not CANgentsial CANsumers of too much beer.
     
    #104 utopiajane, Jan 6, 2018
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  5. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,157) Mar 12, 2009 New York
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    "CANcel my subscription to the Resurrection..."
     
    #105 cavedave, Jan 6, 2018
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  6. woodychandler

    woodychandler Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,184) Apr 9, 2004 Pennsylvania
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    "Why all caps?" you may & CAN ask. Because CANs are just THAT important!
     
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  7. cjgiant

    cjgiant Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,584) Jul 13, 2013 District of Columbia
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    Failed prediction: I'd get into home brewing and eventually produce beers better than what I could get on the shelf.

    Ha! I learned early making drinkable beer is different than making good beer - especially without better equipment.

    Then there's another mild surprise that is also part of the reason: more and more solid beers kept being produced by more and more brewers and available for purchase and not that much more expensive than my own brewed beers.
     
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  8. jesskidden

    jesskidden Grand Pooh-Bah (3,145) Aug 10, 2005 New Jersey
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    At the beginning of every year I predict:

    "Man, I have no idea what's gonna happen in the US brewing industry in the next 12 months...".

    So far, I've been right every year!
     
    #108 jesskidden, Jan 6, 2018
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  9. Roguer

    Roguer Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,811) Mar 25, 2013 Connecticut
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    My prediction covers that. :wink:
     
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  10. Roguer

    Roguer Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,811) Mar 25, 2013 Connecticut
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    I've seen some very impressive barrel aged IPA options - just not many. Beer'd took their best (IMHO) DIPA and aged it in gin, and the results were unlike anything I'd ever had - and good. DFH, of course, has long aged DIPAs on oak, which presents the same problem as aging in spirits (when you're talking about IPAs).

    It's a counter-intuitive process, and I think more breweries are going to get it wrong than get it right. Doom is a polarizing example, but some people do like it, at least.

    I think we'll see more of it, but I agree with you that most of the time it's going to result in a miss rather than a hit.
     
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  11. TongoRad

    TongoRad Grand Pooh-Bah (3,884) Jun 3, 2004 New Jersey
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    DFH blends theirs with fresh 90 minute, and that gives Burton Baton it's zippy edge. Then again, it's more of a Burton Ale than IPA if you want to get technical :wink:.
     
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  12. Roguer

    Roguer Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,811) Mar 25, 2013 Connecticut
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    I don't disagree on either point - and the latter is what makes it so damn good! I think it's still a viable example, however, especially with how well it holds up with age (compared to traditional IPAs, including 90 minute).
     
    #112 Roguer, Jan 6, 2018
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