I've been using almost a year and am really happy with the quality of service. What I can't figure out is why some of my friends, who live in the same area, receive different beer options. Maybe it's related to tenure?
I read online that it was going to start hitting distro this week. With it being available on Tavour makes me posItive it will so full, usual distribution.
Guess we'll see. It hitting Tavour seems more like a marketing deal (based on the amount of promotion for it on social media) than the typical "we made a lot of this beer"
Hmmm... the difference I have seen is regional. I've gotten the same stuff as my LA friend has but not my SEA friend.
Yeah there was a pallet or so left the Wednesday after the release day and he sold it all to them that's it I think besides like 6-7 kegs from what i was told
I've used Tavour since the beginning of this year and initially had some really good experiences. These good experiences lead to me buying a lot more beer from them. When I started buying a lot more beer I started noticing that a lot of their beers were old and lot of them didn't have canned on dates or bottled on dates. Granted I was buying 90% IPAs but still, something like Frost's LUSH would be sold a month after bottling and then, after shipping, would be in my glass a month after that. Or I'd crack a can open, tasted the old beer, look at the bottom of the can and see no date. A few times emails contained "best by" dates. Because of the frustration of getting old beer I was excited for, my purchases on Tavour declined significantly. And just to be clear, everything else about the service (ordering, shipping, payments, delivery, customer service) was excellent for me. I sent them an email urging them to put canned on/bottled on dates in their emails and on their app. Not sure if I had any part to play in this (and definitely not suggesting I did) but I started seeing a lot more "canned on:" and "bottled on:" in their daily emails and on their app. So I gave it another shot when I saw TG Galaxy Dry Hopped Psuedo Sue and even though the bottle arrived at my house a month after the bottle on date the beer tasted like straight wort. So my experiences sum up to being excited about trying new beer and then disappointed with them when they arrive. I'll still order from them every now and them, mostly because I'm an idiot. It works well for stouts, sours, lagers even but doesn't work well for my preference: hop forward IPAs They have a solid company in terms of the mechanics of the business but they really need to work on the freshness of their beer.
^ yah, I have been hestitant about buying hops via Tavour. Sometimes on the product page, they will list the canned date and sometimes it is actually fairly recent... but even then it sits until I fill a box or I pay the shipping charge to ship just a couple of beers.
I should add that they now have an app for your mobile device, which makes ordering much faster and easier.
I like the service so far, if it’s tavour or some other place I have found these practices are best for online ordering: 1. Ship to a work place: Not everyone can do this but nobody can control what Time a shipping company shows once that package out of thier hands. Add in the fact this is alcohol, no one is going to risk giving Beer to a minor so either do the work address or be home all day, there is no other options. 2. Skip IPAs I hate hops so this is easy for me but if you want fresh hops stick to buying in a store where you know how long it’s been there. Stouts and other Styles are made to sit for storage and in my 4 years of online ordering I have only got on “bad” beer that got refuned once I complained. 3. Don’t whale hunt Want whales? Then go hunt for them in store or trade, tavour is more geared to us people with beer ADD, I never buy the same beer twice and want to try every thing with a funny name. I don’t have bottle shops in my town so if it’s not at the grocery store I’m driving two hours to a bigger city for a good shop. I am lucky to have a great restaurant in the area that gets the bcbs, kbs, cw, etc rare releases so get my fix there for those kind of beers and tavour for the ticker beers. Just my two cents on the subject
First post on the forums, I’ll echo Beeryurt and some others on the second page here... I was forced to find an alternative shipping address (my boss won’t allow it at work and my original driver for the delivery company left the company and he had agreed to leave it at an address once I verified all household members were over 21) I ended up having it shipped to a family members work where the rules are a little more lax, but this was a stressful first three delivery cycles before I got it worked out. They have updated their tracking as of mid March 2018, I had a crate sent out early in March and tavour’s app now shows me where the beer’s most recent check in is (as opposed to before when you would get a notification time of when it left Seattle, but would not see an update until it landed at the local courier, which, in my case was at least a week, if not longer) The first two crates I jumped in too and ordered a lot of stuff I ended up drinking about half before dumping (was only stomaching some of it because I paid for it). The last four I’ve ordered (I’ve done 6 crates since July 2017) I’ve focused on stuff that I can’t get at my local shops or breweries that do not have local distribution in my area and darker, malt forward beers that I prefer and the results have been much, much better, I’ve also become a smarter shopper based on this. A lot of what tavour offers is bomber-style bottles, and I’ve been very conservative with what I purchase. I have had a few moments of weakness, ordering stuff through the app that I can get where I live (Stone comes to mind) because I was unable to acquire it on a trip to my local bottle shop. Although I have not yet tried it, I did splurge considerably on some Eclipse stouts, but that’s something I will likely have no other way to get my hands on. Ultimately, if you’re interested and have a reliable address that can provide a signature, you really don’t have anything to lose by signing up. I wish you could “shop more” as opposed to just getting the daily offerings, but I’ve yet to have a snafu with my orders or an issue with damage.
I've been watching this thread and figured I'd chime in with my experience with Tavour, so far... My third box shipped yesterday. It takes about 8 calendar days for my order to arrive in NH. I work out of the house so signing for the box isn't usually an issue. On my last delivery I asked the nice woman who delivered my box how many times they'd try to re-deliver if I wasn't home. She said they'd try a lot. Meaning they'd come back quite a few times to attempt delivery. So all in all delivery has been easy and I really can't figure out how they do it for a $14.90 flat rate, no matter how much beer I order. As for the the beer I've stuck to mostly sours and stouts. I ordered a few hoppy beers, towards the end of my box cycle, that had canned/bottled on dates that were recent. By the time they got to me they had 5 weeks, or less, of age on them. So far I'm impressed. I've had some great west coast sours that I'll never see here on the east coast, and it's always nice to get some Prairie Bomb too. They're emails have a lot of marketing "flair" but if you're on BA you kind of know what's what when it comes to beer. I found a few emails confusing as to which variant of a particular beer was being offered. In these cases I just passed. Pricing seems fair as well. I don't think they're recouping their shipping costs by jacking up the beer prices. I could be wrong since I can only compare a small percentage of the beers I order from them with beers I've bought locally in the New England area, but prices seem pretty close on beers I've bought locally. So far... I highly recommend them for getting some west coast beers that don't distro here on the east coast.
Well here's an interesting price comparison. I never saw Eclipse come up in my Tavour app but I'm curious what you paid for them, if you don't mind sharing. I've bought many a bottle of Eclipse 50/50 in MA. Although, I won't buy them anymore, their prices are way outta whack for what the beer is. It's very good but not worth the price.
Think I paid about 29 for the 50/50s which what I paid last time I found some when I was outside of Chicago. One of those things I buy once a year and than ask myself why the hell I spent that much money on a beer. I can also state thanks to tavour I have found I kind of like hazy iPa’s. Grabbed a couple the week before my box shipped to share with a buddy, everything tasted great and fresh
Yeah that's about the right price around MA. I've bought it as low as 25 but 30 bucks is the norm. Totally agree, I always feel like they got me, damn I paid 30 bucks for a BA beer that is really good but nowhere near 30 bucks good. Hence my hard and fast rule of not buying any more 50/50 even at 25 bucks a bomber. Thanks!
I see stuff that other people get and wonder why someone the next state or two over is getting certain things that I never saw available. I only bought two of the maple coffee bombers... at 29.99 each... . I put one aside for the future and drank one about a week ago. What drew me to it was the hope it would be “CBS-Like”. It was good, but it didn’t hold a candle to Canadian Breakfast Stout.
