Bluejacket to bottle their beer

Heard about this also. Gives me a better chance and environment to review their beers in the future so I dig it. Now if Right Proper stàrts bottling ...

 

Launching with 10 different bottles, bold move. Hope the qc'd them all. 12 bottle limit is going to be rough.

 

Do you know if they have plans to bottle at some point?

 

Uh no... that was just an off handed wishful comment. Neither here nor there, I wouldn't read much into that

 

I'll give one of two of them a shot if I see them on shelves. Maybe not being there in-person will make the beer taste better. Probably last on my list of places I'd like to hang out and drink at in DC.

 

Call me when they start making beer that's remotely drinkable and maybe I'll care that they're bottling it.

 

But will there be a 12 doughnut limit as well?

 

Ouch. I've only been once. Tried several small pours at the bar then had dinner. Enjoyed most everything I had and definitely nothing completely off. True, it wasn't the most pleasant atmosphere.

I wonder if expectations/hype were just set way too high. I appreciate their willingness to brew a bunch of different styles. OTWOA is great, but not of other exceptional local options. Agree that Right Proper is off to a great start, but definitely think our market has room for all of these joints.

I went and picked up Twit and Clockwork today. Just tried Twit. It's damn good. Floral with just a little funk, nice and sour but not overly aggressive. Would work with food but also refreshing on its own. And $8 for a 750ml is really fair.

If the place toned down some of the pretension I think it could be great.

 

Anybody else pick up any bottles? Thinking about grabbing some and am curious about the level of inventory.

 

I was there Sunday 5/18 after the baseball game and picked up two Twits. They had everything except Mexican Radio, which was sold out. But that was five days ago.

 

No offense.. But says the guy who is -rDev on ~70% of his ratings/reviews.

 

Maybe I just think reviewers on this site overrate ~70% of beers.

 

this made me scroll the the first few pages of his beers. He is plus rDev on some great beers (by which I guess I mean I share some of his biases, right?)....and at least one Bluejacket beer (a Kolsch).

wouldn't a smack dab in the middle of the road (vis a vis the collective "wisdom" of the entire board) reviewer tend to be 50/50 on positive vs negative rDev? Isn't a 70/30 split only mildly more critical than that? And another issue--many of these negative rDevs on his list are low single digits.

I never understand this criticism of a reviewer.

haven't been to Bluejacket though, will hit it next time I'm back home in VA.

 

Except most of Bluejacket's mean ratings are pretty mediocre... so maybe you are the outlier here.

 

Most are mediocre. Some are complete misses. Some are must tries.

My point was that bluejacket occasionally receives sweeping generalization criticisms such as that one; whereas the 'mean ratings' alone should dictate otherwise.

 

Their highest rated beer is a 4.07, and most are well below that, so it seems like the sweeping generalizations are somewhat warranted.

Which beers are must tries?

I get the sense that people want to like Bluejacket, but they haven't managed to put out anything good yet, and for some reason they seem to be focusing on quantity rather than quality.

 

Maybe expectations were set high, but they did that all themselves, and I have a feeling they did it before they ever knew whether they could brew a decent beer. They made it sound like it was going to be the be-all, end-all American brewery, and it seems to have fallen short of even being average. Being a victim of unreasonable hype sucks; drumming up outsized hype and then utterly failing to live up to it deserves to be mocked.