Chicagoland NE IPAs (2018)

I rotate styles around as well, I just find myself liking the other styles more, after some of the hype has worn off.

 

I also buy WAY too much beer.

 

You and me both (and I'm guessing a good percent of others on BA!). It really is admirable that you switch up styles so much...I think more folks (myself included) need to do more of that. I can't think of the last time I bought a brown ale for consumption at home.

 

This is where Bottles & Cans comes in handy...

A mixed six pack with everything in the store up for grabs means I can switch things up frequently & throw in wild cards (one brown ale, something sour, something Belgian, etc.).

 

They are great for that! Except I usually end up with 6 IPAs/APAs.

 

It's a solid, crushable beer but not really a NE-style.

 

So you like sweeter beers. Nice, nothing wrong with that.

 

I guess. Prop 16 is a rather awful beer imo. NvU is my fav

 

Breweries and any user can add but breweries have supervisory control over their own beers and can change anything. But with any site or rating thingy, you have limitations regarding a single style, especially if you saddle guidelines (like this dipshit that brews belgo NEIPA’s that you all love so much) or brew something that ain’t exactly got a BJCP set of guidelines. I recently made a motueka dry-hopped 100% brett easy drinker, went to add to beer advocate & untappd, and had to classify it as ‘an American wild” because neither site recognizes the BJCP ‘Brett beer.’

 

what is this beer called and is it canned?

 

‘How it starts’...in cans and lovely if ya dig that kinda thing.

 

You realize you are losing sales due to (1) not updating your website (2) having cans that have very little information on them and are not social media friendly in the age of Twitter and Instagram (3) Don't put any release information on social media regarding your new beers which is vitally important since you don't update your web-site?

 

Fair points but it’s a three man gang, brewing at three different breweries, all the while designing and building a brew pub. We lapsed a bit on social media but also Facebook algorithms suck and hide shit from people that follow our page. We’ll get better but we do like our minimalistic approach to cans, especially in the age of bad art & design overload.

 

Do the Facebook algorithms control the content on your web-site? I've enjoyed the beers I've had from Middle Brow, but am giving you honest feedback. I get where you are coming from with a small organization, but my two cents is if a brewery isn't going to provide the customer with the info they are looking for to make an informed purchase then why bother with that brewery?

 

Anyone had Upland Juiced in Time? Have a friend hitting the brewery and wondering if it is worth picking up?

 

Mystic Fog is on point in case anybody was wondering.

 

Picked up that and mosaic. But holy shit. Did Corridor raise crowler prices? Remember paying $11-12 for SqueezIt crowlers. $17 for mystic is really pushing it.

 

Whoa... mikerphone IPA in 750 ml territory with $/oz.

 

Damn! It has been a couple of months since I've been there, but they definitely weren't $17/crowler! Are their on-site prices the same still? I wonder if they are trying to slow down how fast people deplete their beers while at the same time making more money with higher margins (by both selling higher priced crowlers and by selling more beer at higher $/oz when buying beers on-site).

 

Bendy Meme was even higher but I figured it was the collab nature. This is concerning...