What beers do you wish would return?

Yes, we have the same situation here, with Reyes distributing Sierra Nevada here in most of the Chicago Area (McHenry County the exception). Powder Dry IPA (excellent) was the last beer I had from SN (Jan 2022). It was a gift from my brother, fresh because he got it either in McHenry County or Wisconsin. I don't think my source for SN Narwhal and Bigfoot (The Beer Temple) even carries the brewery period (I need to ask next time - they have no SN for sale on their website).

The problem with the Big Box / Grocery Store arrangements, is the distributor must always keep a significant portion in the warehouse. A brewer will lose their SKU / shelf space if store runs out of beer and the distributor can't replace it by the next day. This results in a significant quantities that are at minimum 1-2 months old sitting on hand for "just in time" delivery. If the beer isn't selling well, 1-2 months turns into 1-2 quarters before it even goes out. Informed shoppers see that, and it makes the situation worse, as even less people are interested due to the fact it is stale. There is no new beer coming in because the distributor doesn't need any. At least for the seasonal sku (Oktoberfest, Celebrator), it's delivered fresh.

Fear we (Chicagoans) are going to lose both the variety and freshness of Bell's if they move back under Reyes (New Belgium is primarily a Blue House brand). Larry pulled his beer out of Illinois in the 1990s after Reyes bought their distribution rights from another distributor (he did the same recently in Virginia @vabeerguy ). The "New New Belgium" is already consolidating sales reps, and it only makes sense at this point to have one distributor to deal with per market.

Cheers!

 

Julius... I just bought some canned 4/28. It is not what it used to be. I think it's Hurricane in the wrong can.

 

SA Hallertau Pils
Stone IRS
Bell's Quinannan Falls
SN Otra Vez
Troegs Sunshine Pils (old recipe, or at least receipt from 2017)

 

When Hop Wallop first came out it was indeed great, then later not as good to me but still good.
I grew up on Schmidt's and Ballantine ale.
I remember riding a motorcycle on a hot ass afternoon day out by Lehigh valley near the Appalachian trail decades ago and go to a bar that just tapped Schmidt's. It was glorious.
Another similar incident was with Stoudts Gold Pils. So good.

 

Purchased packaged Pivo 6pk today at FW Propagator (canned 3/10/22). No idea whether that means it'll see distro or find a spot in the production brew cycle, but I'm betting it'll be around for FWIBF next month. So there's hope...

 

FW Double Jack

 

Ballast Point ~ Victory At Sea. My favorite porter, period. Left me and Missouri high and dry.

 

Boulevard Heavy Liftin’ IPA

 

Narragansett Lovecraft series
The honey ale, old ale, red ipa. As well as the original summer ale and fest

Dogfish piercing pils

 

To be honest I wanted to try the following beers:
Miller Foutune
Miller Red Dog
Bud dry
Bud light lime Orange-A rita
Bud light lime grape-A rita
Bud light lime apple-Ahh-rita
Bud light lime Straw-ber-rita splash
bud light lime splash
Dog fish head higer math
new belgum blue pattern
evil twin bikini beer
rouge ales beard beer(I know what some people are prob thinking but i would like to try this)

People had said some of these were bad or awful or good in some cases. However I have not tried them wether they are good or bad.I would have liked to find out.

I aslo wish the brewing comapny Avery would bring a lot of thier rarier beers back to try.Most sounds great.I have tried some that were discountinued and i liked what I had.I would like to try some of the others that are no longer able to get.

 

Rhinegeist Brewery - Hans
I really really miss my namesake
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/31995/262932/

Just found out that Sonder will not do the "Bruder" anymore
I will miss that one as well...
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/54377/463757/

 

A hyper-local one for me, Orchard Street Brewings (Bellingham WA) Stock Ale. Was such a good beer when I moved here 22 years ago, I think the brewery has been almost 20 years now.

 

IRS will be released later this year.
https://www.stonebrewing.com/content/pr-archive/010322-fan-vote-ssr.pdf

 

I came back for another to stir the shit by saying Miller High Life Light. It's not the same as miller lite at all

 

About a year or so ago I had a conversation with an employee at my local Retail Beer Distributor. I related that until I read something (a BA post?) I didn't even know there was a Miller High Life Light. He responded with something like: "Oh yeah. It is really good! It goes down like water". I didn't know how to reply to that so I switched topics to some other beer topic.

Cheers!

 

Lol. It sure does. imo better than most because although it's a light beer it's still tasty and also. Allegedly it's unfiltered. I was also told that the only difference between high life and mgd is high life is unfiltered and mgd is. Both are pasteurized. Idk the % of truth but I've been on a massive kick of the minor differences between AALs lately. I was convinced that old milawaukee and pbr were one step away from being the same beer buy side by side taste I was so wrong. But that's another story. These AALs. So similar yet so subtly different. I've gone mad


Anhueser is hiring in NJ and I may apply. Work my way up. Learn what I've been obsessing over. But is it work the hour plus drive

 

Well, for most of its life (circa mid-1980s) to be legally labeled Miller Genuine Draft it could not be pasteurized.

The Feds, however, dropped that rule within the last couple of years.

MGD started out as simply MHL that was micro-filtered/sterile-filled instead of tunnel pasteurized.

In recent years, current owner Molson Coors has slightly different stats for the two beers on the Nutritional pdf:
MHL - 4.6% 141 calories
MGD - 4.7% 144 calories
... suggesting they might have tweaked the recipe of one or both, although the differences are within the legal tolerances, IIRC.

That same Nutritional pdf "Updated 10/13/2021" still lists the availability of Miller High Life Light.

 

I was hoping to hear from you @JackHorzempa

 

Hi!

Another rainy day in SEPA.

JK, is the man when it comes to American mega (and regional) breweries and history.

Cheers to JK!