How long until Treehouse is replicated?

Other Half is doing similar things in Brooklyn.

 

He'll yeah. Usually it's fun seeing these fads play out. But in this case, with the self-awareness set to 0 and the obnoxiousness set to 11, it's kinda hard to ride along.

 

There is also UC Davis, where Dr. Bamforth does research. He has been working on the science of foam,,as it is more important than most would think. He is referred to as the "Pope of Foam" by some.

 

Thanks - major miss on that one. I have his book on malt - while technical, it is very readable.

I also found this, which Draft Magazine calls required reading and graciously provides the link to the full paper. While not strictly hop-focused entirely, it certainly shows how complex the chemistry gets. I haven't plowed through all of this article - it's way over my head and slow slogging!

http://depa.fquim.unam.mx/amyd/archivero/ARTICULOGRUPO8_25527.pdf

 

Alpine sold for a stupid amount of money, and Founders has done nothing but succeed greatly and expand production since the days they were the "flavor of the day" I guess is my point.

 

Yeah, that will be a slog, but thanks, looks to be worth the effort.

 

again... I would bet you have not had Tree House...

 

Couldn't agree more. Waiting 4 to 6 to 10 weeks to drink a volatile/fresh hoppy ale is absurd -- JK is brilliant --but that "10 week" comment is just pure propaganda.

 

I'm hoping it's somewhere in PA near @JackHorzempa so he doesn't have to keep drinking 6 week old FWUJ...

 

Ive never had treehouse but id imagine that situation would be like store brand goods. Its replicated, but never as good as the real thing. The first thing im going to do next chance i get though is brew a clone so i can get an idea of the hype. Lol

 

Well, if you had used the expression "brainless beer tick BA rare beer bruh idiots" instead of "people" to describe who was moving away in your first post it would have been tons clearer what you meant. The fact is that some "brainless beer tick BA rare beer bruh idiots" may have moved away, but "people" have joined their customer bases in astronomically huge numbers since the "brainless beer tick BA rare beer bruh idiots" put them on the map and started them on the road to success.

 

As is the bullshit he wrote about drinking from the can because the aroma is better, which is so demonstrably bullshit it's laughable. He advises drinking from the can because he was one of the first to put out a tubid mess of a beer with floaties and didn't realize that look would grow to be beautiful to many of us instead of how ugly he assumed all of us would find it.

 

And now you don't hear either brewery spoken of with the same dotty reverential tones fanboys apply to Tree House or Trillium. It's not a matter of quality or success so much as subcultural estimation.

Both of the breweries I've named have produced some of my favorite beers but I can't imagine their continued success won't be accompanied by a certain cooling of rhetoric in describing them. This isn't an insult to these outstanding breweries at all. It may be an insult to certain fans, though.

 

If your point is the ridiculous hype train moves to different stations to satisfy the impatient fan boy hipster crowd looking to be in on the newest iteration to be served at the party to which they showed up so late, I agree.

 

No, that beer is still an ugly bastard to be sure. The turbid-ness is fine but the floaties make it a real horror show to look at.

 

While clearly these new breweries are hot right now (and I'm sure they're making great beer), the way Beer Advocate is doing the rankings has changed significantly in the last...few months, I think? However they do their metrics now have shaken up the Top 250 list quite a bit, so some of that has nothing to do with "beer bruhs" Founders or Tree House; some of it is just the newer way the data is parsed.

 

Honestly, thats the majority of cans coming from very small breweries. Canning at low TPO is very difficult because of how large the opening of a can is. O2 standards aren't very good for cans in most cases. The can freshness hype is mostly a myth in my experience, mostly due to the oxygen issue IMO.

 

Indeed!

 

From what little I have had, Other Half and Tired Hands both pull off Tree House levels of deliciousness. Trillium does, too, and their expanded Canton brewery means they're actually hitting LBS shelves around here... the non-hoppy stuff they put out is amazing, just like Tree House.

It's a good time to be a beer drinker.

 

Treehouse sells there beers between 3.75 and 4.25 per can. So from the brewery its 22.50 - 25.50 a six pack. Imagine a Distro was involved how much it would be for a 6 pack of this beer.