More Brewing Co (2019)

ISO: Bath Salts
FT: Revenge

 

OK, we are definitely meeting in a public place to exchange beers.

 

I agree that people will always complain, but the whole "oops, just sold 400 bottles an hour before the actual release, but they can keep them!" is bullshit and a huge fuckup. People that don't get any are always going to complain, and people that do (i got both) are going to think it's a great system.

personally, I would rather have this way or lining up on a saturday. I hate the lotteries because I can't help but think they can easily be rigged/manipulated by people with enough time on their hands.

 

Beer people are insufferable sadly to a large extent. People, you don't need to have EVERY beer ever produced. I promise, there will be more. If you seriously let something like this ruin your day, you need therapy.

 

Unfortunately all my friends/family I had trying for me fell victim to this line of thinking. They hit refresh and it said sold out and they were like "whelp, oh well!". Meanwhile same thing happened to me, I hit refresh on another tab, and it pops up to buy. Sucks because I told them that might happen and to keep trying but I know they didn't.

 

I disagree with this though. It gives the best chance to people with bots set up to buy the second the site has an available button. It would still sell out in less than 5 seconds but instead of a bunch of neckbears dying for a taste, it will be a bunch of greedy fucks looking to make a few thousand bucks.

 

To me, cancelling the pre noon sales should be the easiest decision ever. I'm a big sports gambler and sometimes the book will post terrible lines that are clearly errors. One time it was total hits/runs/errors in a game set at 1.5. I put my entire bankroll on it, bovada cancels it, I say "oh well, worth a shot!". That's exactly what anyone who got a bottle based on a system error should have said. They gave it a shot and they knew they didn't actually deserve that bottle.

 

I think the best way of doing lines is like how Mikerphone did it... give everyone a ticket when the line gets long enough. This gets rid of the line cutting issue and also saves people from waiting in a line when they won't get one.

 

I generally agree with this premise, but MoRE has done such a good job of running the onsite releases. I don't think they've ever had a situation where someone who got there at open didn't get a bottle / allotment. I can't speak to the impact of the noise/littering - but they do have porta-potties and trash cans set up.

Contrast that to this where they had a fairly big screw-up and it's just hard to reconcile. I do agree generally that I'd rather lose 5 minutes at lunch than 3 hours on a Saturday.

I believe them - no reason not to - but that isn't the point. To make up for the pre-sold bottles, they either had to take away from future cellar releases or bottle more that would have been on draft (I'd assume the former). That's just not the right way to deal with it - it rewards people who knowingly broke the parameters as opposed to someone who's coming on-site at some point. If you're going to do that, don't set up the parameters to begin with.

 

The one think I do like about More is that they do their releases different every time. Keeps people on their toes and people that normally cant wait in a line overnight get a chance to get some of their beers as well.

 

I feel like this should replace "RESPECT BEER®" as Beer Advocate's tagline.

 

I feel like this is my wife's burner account, telling me what I need and do not need.

 

Not to distract from this fruitful conversation, but the pickup dates listed on the tickets are wrong, right?

 

I will admit I haven’t been to a line-up release in a year (BA Henna released during last year’s DLD), but all I have is images of Henna b1 and Henna b2 releases. Even the BA Henna releases seemed to have a lot of people littering, getting in the way of people on the trail and just took a really long time to get through the line. I remember then thinking that that was going to be the last time I line up.

I don’t know, maybe I’m just getting old and grumpy. Don’t have the patience as I use to. I’d just rather have the chance at on-line tickets because even if I miss on a release, I felt I didn’t lose all that much (time). And there will be another beer at some point released, I’m sure. I’d almost rather be it that way than getting a bottle but having to stand in line for hours (for 1 bottle). Just my thoughts on the manner. We’ll all have a different opinion.

 

Are people still blaming bots?

 

Beer nerds are all about conspiracy theories.

 

Yes, I agree and wish I'd have thought to point it out myself!

Yeh - like I said, I mostly agree. I guess to me the line doesn't really take as long as some others. By comparison, MoRE gets through their stout lines (meaning everyone who is there at open) in less than an hour. I went to the first Henna, got there at 11 and was done before noon - I remember it seemed like nothing moved for about 20 minutes then went faster.

Contrast to Revolution, which frankly has less people than the BA Henna lines from Craft Beer week last year, but at Rev if you are there at open it will take well over 2 hours (I think for the vanilla was over 2.5 hours). At the end of the day if you hate lines, one is just the lesser of two evils. Like you said - if you lose 5-10 minutes hitting f5, that's a lot less time than any line like this.

 

Stopped in on my drive down south for lunch.

Hot take: Screw their BA adjunct stouts, Arketype is the single best beer they’ve brewed.

 

Gonna have to strongly disagree with you on that. How could you possibly prefer arketype over Henna? Arketype didn't wow me in any way. I thought it was good, I just wasn't blown away at all.