Wolves & People

I appreciate your passion.

 

i've enjoyed the slow progression of this thread from "new brewery, you guys! " to "what's the meaning of life? "

 

Progression? Beer is the meaning of life. It always has been. I think we started and ended there with this thread.

 

This is the opposite of what a kickstarter usually is. Almost all of them give you a discount on the final product because you are giving up capitol with the risk and a long wait for the payoff. Crowd funding in no way represents paying more money out of good will.

I have no problem with the expensive society, but to say that we are donating money to them is really dumb.

 

troublemaker

Looking forward to visiting the brewery once it's open. Sounds awesome. Cheers!

 

Thanks for including "others" in there. If your beer turns out to be good, I'll drink it passionately.

 

I still don't understand why even offer this type of thing if the beers haven't even been brewed, or at the very least been poured at an event. I mean i love good beer but there should be at least some sort of promotional event. Also has it been mentioned what beers will be for distro or if the beers that come with the membership will be brewery only?

 

I dropped out of the conversation several days ago, and I'm not sure that I missed much....

At the end of the day, W&P sold out of those 75 cellar memberships priced at $350 in three days. So regardless of what you feel about cellar clubs, Kickstarter, investing, or having wolves as pets, the memberships are gone. So were they priced too high? Obviously not. In fact, one could argue they were priced a little low, given the length of the campaign versus the speed at which the memberships sold out.

Now for the people that did purchase a membership (myself included), we'll see whether it turns out to be worth it. The one thing I can guarantee, there will be a discussion here about it...

 

Well I hope this all turns out well for those that put up the cash.

 

I think it's probably good to lock this one down until the brewery actually starts selling beer.

 

BULLSHIT!

This is actually one of the best threads on the NW page in the 7 years I've been on BA. Lots of great opinions, differing viewpoints, very little name-calling, and the way the road curved, have kept me interested all the way through. Cheers and congrats Everyone!

Plus, now @JordanBrewer will have an extra spark to make great beer. I mean, after all, we don't want to confuse him with Fat Heads, now do we?

 

I disagree as well. While I mocked the length and topic of this discussion in my last note, I don't understand why this thread would be locked. It contains a discussion about beer, breweries and the business of brewing beer. AND the discussion has been a decent one without a large number of personal attacks or purely troll posts. And as W&P gets closer to a grand opening, I sense the discussion will continue. If BA wants to be a community about beer, then this is the type of legitimate discourse should be encouraged, not discouraged by locking it down. IMHO.

 

I don't strongly have an opinion on it, but I personally un-watched this conversation a while ago when it seemed like it was just going around in circles with people repeating the same conflicting viewpoints over and over. I think that's the argument to lock it: while it's been interesting we also don't need another 5 pages of people repeating the same things.

 

From their facebook page:

"We had some questions about our Cellar Club beers. Glad to help clarify this matter. The first six beers reserved for Cellar Society members will be released only to members and be served at select special events, i.e. private beer dinners and a festival or two (there won’t be much to go around). The second six will be released to Cellar Society members at least one month before going on sale in the tasting room and possibly another retail location or two (as well as certain events). Either way, Cellar Society members are granted first dibs to many of our first releases. Thanks for your support!"

Anyone else more confused now? I thought it was two sets of six beers we were getting...

 

Now they clarify.... Sort of

 

Yeah that was my thought.

The seems kind of like the Upland thread (see link above), where even though more could be said, it was kind of tapped out. I do think this has been pretty civil though, barring a few posts by this trollish asshole:

 

I'm totally stoked for this brewery. Us Oregonian beer enthusiasts are truly a lucky bunch. I passed on the membership though because $350 is 38 Bu Weisses (and 1 Hose) so I think I'll stock up a little more next time I'm at de Garde and not feel as bad about it.

 

The two longest threads in recent memory in the Northwest forum have been about how Fat Heads will clog our arteries and fail and how Wolves & People are really the wolves of Wall Street with their objectionable financial schemes.

For a part of the country with so many breweries, we don't seem to be welcoming them with open arms.

I appreciate the desire for substance and the realist's skepticism ... but at some point it crosses over to cynicism and negativity. Not that it's on topic - but when has that stopped this thread - but it's curious and interesting to me that "we" seem (based on my limited sampling) a lot less positive and welcoming than the other regional forums.