Breweries you once loved, but don't anymore and why

No longer love Sierra Nevada, but still like their product. Hurts to say.

Anyone know why their Fall Seasonal is yet another IPA? No Oktoberfest or Tumbler or something other than an IPA.

 

Lagunitas. Victory. Sierra Nevada. Alesmith. Osker Blues.

Why? They all turned to a massive shit IPA portfolio and abandoned most things.
Alesmith: Its easier to find Party Tricks than Speedway out here now.
Lagunitas: where the fuck is last years Willettized?
Victory: cant find their stout either
Sierra Nevada : no comment
Osker Blues : Old Chub and Ten Fidy are non existant. What happened to G'Knight

Every brewery now that doesnt do hyped up Special Releases for weridos with yeti bags waiting in line only releases IPAs

Maybe if the population were cut in half cuz i know it isnt their fault
So i guess i hate beer consumers.

Yep. Hate all you guys

 

Yeah, I’m with @Resistance88 , Victory used to be great! Not so much anymore!

 

Trillium.

As early as 2015, they were my absolute favorite brewery. Higher than Hill Farmstead and Tree House. Even in 2016, after their (first) Canton location opened, they were still right up there.

I don't know what happened, but the big change for me was when they started canning their beer. I still recall getting that first canned batch of Congress Street, along with a few other bottles of their other beer. The bottles tasted great as ever, the cans were a complete mess. Just a completely different beer. It had this very strong, what I would call "off" flavor to it that I still can't place (peanut shells?) and it's been in every hoppy beer I've had from them since. I chalked up that first canning run as "growing pains". But, at least for my palate, they never got out of it. I tried cans over the years of pretty much all my favorites, but they never hit the sweet spot again.

And don't get me started on the hop burn. That's a flaw, not a feature and I will die on that hill.

Their canned dark beers aren't bad, although they look like crap (no head, no lacing, sediment occasionally). They also do some decent wilds. But the IPA's are what I loved, and now I can barely finish a can. Or a pour.

I don't know what happened, but this is the first, and honestly only case of me saying "the beer changed" and being 100% confident that it's true and not just my palate. I know many others who agree.

But they're still doing great for themselves and I hope they keep up their success. I'm just done giving their beers a chance. I've accepted that they just aren't for me anymore.

 

Whats funnier to me is all the guys on here who think the "too many ipa" people angry at all this IPA bullshit are over exaggerating
I understand that breweries need to make money...but why all of a sudden do these brewers need so much money to survive?
Well....expansion.
Expansion because they cared no longer about being genuine and just want money.

Why do these places need so many locations?
Stone. Lagunitas. Sierra nevada.
Why multiple locations?

Eat my shit. I hope IPA slows down and they come back to the die hards with their tails between their legs when all these casuals only drink seltzer margarita slushies.

"Craft" beer is a fuckin joke nowadays. Its all corporate bullshit and they all report to investors and have Board Meetings ( as sierra Terrance explained)
They dont care about us...and i could give two shits about them

 

Well, Wicked Weed, because it burned down and was never rebuilt.

Founders because behavior.

Goose Island because Josh Noel.

Anchorage because price.

Against the Grain because Sam Cruz.

 

Well i live really close to their taproom ( pasadena) and get a heads up when all that stuff drops.
(This is main reason i blame consumers for this problem in the end and not the brewery)

Currently have a crowler of 2016 Double Bastard, had cali Belgique today, RIS plenty times there ( 2012,2013,2014,2016,) BA and non BA OG ( 6-7 different years) and they almost always have a variety of styles on tap.

Same with Ballast Point
Their Homebrew + Taproom location is my favorite in SD. No crowd, no kids and great beers. Their R&D stuff is the shit, too.

 

Founders? Really.

Homeboy that filed suit cashed out and never said shit after. He got his bag and said fuck it so it didnt bother him THAT MUCH .

I still drink founders. If homeboy that sued is ok with it so am i. Shit i wouldnt be surprised if he had some in his fridge and yall are here still on it

 

I went and edited my comment to be clearer.
Im on the same boat as you. Ive been do close to going on trading forums to put out an ISO for Willetized Crowler but i hope they release it this year

 

Melvin. Elysian. Skookum. New Belgium. Rogue. Stone. Kulshan. Anderson Valley.

 

Victory might be the worst offender. They sold out while being based out of the price gouging capital of the nation. You can charge whatever you want, for whatever you want in Philly and get away with it...yet the most iconic Philly craft brand won't even throw us a bone and send out a few 6packs of moonglow in the fall. Or find some way to release harvest, hop ranch...or god forbid old/oak horizontal. It's just so clear that they would rather lose that business to potentially gain more monkey fans. I can respect that in the right context but again, Victory doesn't have to do that. They could sell out and still make a half assed attempt to keep their fans like some of these other breweries mentioned.

 

Green Flash...no explanation needed really.

All too common now the story of quick expansion through borrowed funds and eventual take over. Head Brewer splits. Bigger facilities and beer recipes then changed and/or quality suffered. Etc.

I absolutely loved them as a small local right in my backyard. Chuck Silva is a great brewer. They pumped out an incredible standard line up from the WCIPA, the Imperial IPA, Double Stout, the Nut Brown and Hop Head Red. Silva Stout and Rayon Vert were both incredible beers...

But MOST of all they killed my number one fav beer of all time - Alpine Nelson. WTF inexcusable in my book...

 

@Resistance88
A lot of people are going up say Stone. Prepare yourself.

 

I don't think we're your problem