Oregon Beer News (2020)

Damn. If this keeps up, pretty soon I won't be buying anything but Barley Brown beer when I go to the store.

 

I appreciate the fact that brewers are trying to come up with creative ways to move product, and if this works for them, then that's great. However, beers from these breweries are available all over town, so it's not clear to me what advantage there would be to driving over to Old Town for what's essentially a pop up beer market (with limited merchandise). At least in my experience, finding places where I can purchase a wide selection of craft beer has not been a particularly arduous task during the pandemic.

 

Likewise. I took "latest releases" to mean the current range of cans and bottles I can find at pretty much any beer store in town (and likely most grocery stores as well). If they would offer something a bit more unusual or unique (like you mentioned), then this would have a lot more appeal for me. However, there was no mention of that in the article, so I assume that's not going to be the case.

I'm trying to do what I can to support the local craft beer industry during the pandemic, but most of these events (pop up markets, virtual festivals, virtual tasting events, etc.) don't seem to offer anything really new or different, and mostly they just seem to be aimed at getting me to spend even more money on beer than I currently do. The last thing I need to do is to increase my current beer consumption over what is already a pretty significant norm.

 

Same here, and my guess is that goes for a lot of people. It would clearly be a draw, all by itself. Which is all the more reason why I'm fairly certain that's not happening.

If they were offering some of the beers you typically need to be in Seattle to buy (brewery only releases), I have to think that would be the sort of thing they'd want to advertise in the article (as that would be a huge draw). The fact they didn't make any mention of it tends to make me think that they're just going to be selling whatever is currently already available in our market.

 

Thanks for the tip Terry (had never heard of RedTwitGram).

I don't disagree with you (on the contrary), but I would expect they would post something like that in the article. That would be a game changer for a lot of people (me, for example).

While I'm not going to bother to go to this pop-up for beers I can easily obtain over at John's, I'd be over there in a heartbeat this Saturday if I thought they might be selling something I normally can't obtain around town.