Official Northeast Merger Discussion Thread

I'm bad at computers, what do you mean?

 

The football powerhouse of RI wins with a badass "native son" DE going #21 in the draft.

 

Godfuckingdammit what a missed opportunity

 

Miss me with the annoying-guy-in-Philosophy-101 semantics bullshit. No brewery is in ANY way affected by the level of posting about them in goddamn BeerAdvocate forums. It's just a braindead argument.

 

*looks at posts on the first page.....

"What the fuck is Kane Brewing?"

 

"What the fuck is a package store?" A UPS store?

 

I know, it's so goddamn confusing......

 

In what states is this actually a more common thing though? I bet it's more than I'm giving credit, and likely includes at least state included in the forum formerly known as the mid atlantic.

 

What is the cutoff for northeast?

 

Hey we usually don't even call it "package" - it's just a "packy" or "packies"

 

I'm British. When i moved here and first started using BA, and saw that being used, my first thought was who are these horrifically racist fucks in New England. then someone explained it to me...

 

Sort of, in PA most people still refer to beer stores as "beer distributors" and liquor stores as "state stores"

It was only recently that beer is available at supermarkets, with seperate registers to sell beer (196 oz limit) and wine (3L limit).

And it's only somewhat recent that beer stores can sell six packs instead of whole cases.

 

And it's great that they appear to be standing in front of a beer store. With regards to the culture clash in the quote below... is it just me or does that appear to be a store that sells both beer and wine in an imaginary version of NYC? It's California's idea of a NYC alcohol shop.

 

Looks like NoVA. Northeast?

 

18.3 million new visitors to beeradvocate.com in 2020
106K active users
6% of visitors from MA
Not huge numbers but its safe to say the percentage of those visitors are interested in beer
Presumably a high percentage of the traffic that visits the local forums are looking for information about local beer. The visitors to BA also probably tend to spend more money on beer per year than the average beer drinker as well.

The local forums are word of mouth advertising. You can argue the significance of the volume of potential customers but you've got the right audience and they are high value customers (e.g. life time value of acquiring a new customer that visits BA is much higher than typical advertising). Some breweries get the value of these local forums, that's why they read those forums and occasionally respond.

Not thinking there's any value to local breweries to have discussions about their breweries is pretty braindead.

 

So totally this. I was still working out how to say it when I read that you already had.

There are a plentitude of small, local breweries who made their bones doing the thick and hazy NEIPA thing who now have the credibility, means, and sense of urgency to stay relevant to try their hands at a saison or a helles or a bock of some sort, or whatever. They’re not all good, but it gives me something to do all day.

 

This forum merge sucks.

 

Every state has different rules, so different terminology. In some states (NY for example), you can't get beer at a "package store" which sells only wine and liquor. Beer is at the beer distributor / beer store or other retailer. In Oregon where I grew up, hard liquor was sold only by the state in no-self-serve liquor stores (we called them "green fronts" since the windows had green covers). You still can't get beer or wine in a liquor store in Oregon, but you can pick up the hard liquor you want from the shelves now. In Illinois, a store that sells bottled liquor/wine/beer can also sell by the drink. Hence the old "economy tap", where a bar is set up among the bottles and cans, and the by-the-drink prices are rock-bottom -- now it could be called a "dive bar" and become trendy???