Tired Hands (October 2018)

I would love to get a chance to try their Palatine Pils.

I still love pilsners and lagers as well. Sometimes you just want a "drinking" beer. Something that's reliable and easy to session

 

Suarez is fantastic but an outlier (for the region). I wish there were more breweries like them

 

No data just an observation and discussion on more beers sticking around, less lines, etc.

Rothaus pils is quite possibly the most perfect Pilsner for me. Give it a try if you haven’t or if you haven’t in a while may be worth a revisit. Cheers.

 

If you have a spot in NJ that has Rothaus at a decent price, lemme know!

 

My local Wegmans (PA) sells Rothaus for 15+ bucks a 6-pack and typically it is non-fresh (e.g., 6+ months old).

Fresh Rothaus is indeed a high quality Pilsner and when I see it on draft I order it.

Cheers!

 

NE style is more popular than ever. My favorite bottle shop has no fewer than 40 different NE style beers according to their stock on Untappd. I've also talked to the manager there and he said outside of the usual 30 pack crowd, that is what most beer people are coming in for while Two Hearted sits on the shelf to the point where he has to discount it.

 

Anyone try the Happy Birthday beer? Man it is good, finally a no frills, non culinary Hands IPA that knocks it out of the park.

 

Shambolic bottles at $8.50 a pop? Oh hell yes!

 

Does it really matter how quickly cans sell out? Is can velocity a thing?

 

Literally 1 of 100's of solid ipas in the book for T-hands.

 

For breweries like TH, OH etc. The non-distributing, weekly Instagram release announcing, predominantly hazy ipa making type of brewery - I reckon it’s very important. I think it’s a good thing for everyone if every weekend isn’t a shitshow with a three hour sell out. But if cans last too long then it will prob cause issues

 

Had one yesterday and it was killer. That hop profile was pretty incredible.

 

Yup, picked up a couple of bottles. What a great beer and a good price too!

PS: I caved and got a four pack of the pumpkin chai shake. I hate to say this since I was sort of crapping on it before I tried it, but it's really good.

 

Keith, I tried this beer at the Fermentaria and I agree with you here.

Cheers!

 

Jack, you forgot to mention the Hefeweizen that was available on draft at the Ferm. A beer that Jean told me he would never brew. Keith, it was really quite tasty and well balanced flavor profile of gloves & bananas without any puree. It was also nice & hazy like good wheat should look.

 

Richard, I discussed the Hefeweizen already in post #211 above:

"I was at the Fermentaria yesterday for lunch. I had an 8 ounce glass of Lightful; the server told me this is the first time they brewed a Hefeweizen. I thought this beer was very good! It has a very pleasant balance of banana and clove for my palate. I would encourage others who are fans of the Hefeweizen style to try this beer."

Cheers!

Jack

 

Sorry Jack, didn't see it....my bad!

 

I prefer a flavor profile of boots & bananas myself.

 

good hop profile and my preferred ABV. That one hit it out of the park for me, on my last trip I grabbed that, AC, HopHands and the Nelson Invasive - Happy Birthday was the clear winner.

 

Definitely. These beers have a pretty limited shelf life, and selling them a month+ from the day they were canned - assuming they made it from tank to can in a timely manner - risks the product being not as good as what they want their canned beers to be.

My own personal take is that most of these beers, particularly the non-adjunct ones, are fine 3 or even 4 months after canning, but they definitely change along the way. FWIW, Hill Farmstead puts a "drink by" date on their cans of about 6 weeks from canning, which to me seems about right for how long they can sit in the fridge before they change pretty noticeably.

I suspect this is why these breweries are loathe to put their cans out into distribution. They could no doubt sell more beer in the short run, but in the long run there are a lot of places where your product isn't going to be stored cold and isn't going to make it promptly to market. You lose the ability to do hype/FOMO marketing, sure, but you also risk crappy versions of your product making it into people fridges, reducing the stature of your brand.