I'm so embarrassed that the US has spawned this aberration

I liked the bottle far better than the beer. I would say the beer was meh at best.

 

Good ole USA, land of the free, home of I can do what ever the hell I want to! Yeee haaa!. Corny marketing, crazy promotions, nothing new here. Germany should be ashamed by the fact that the USA now has more breweries than them. Go see Ricky Bobby in Talledega Nights for a " slice" of some USA culture. Being this is a free country, vote with your wallet, very simple.

 

This thread and some of the responses completely justify the 'beer snob' persona perceived by the general public. Understand that I'm not calling anyone a beer snob, simply that this would be the perception by the general public. If you disagree with the way any product is marketed the best defense is to simply not spend your money on it. There was outrage at the way Founders was forced to remove the baby from the FBS bottle label and how the public is so grossly sensitive to things that don't even matter. Then, we have this thread to completely contradict that argument. Honestly, who cares how a particular beer is marketed? And to claim to be ashamed that our country has 'spawned such an aberration' is one of the most overly dramatic things I've heard in a long while. But, you got me to respond so nice marketing job...

 

Except Rogue wouldn't be as creative with the packaging.

 

right next to the biggest gimmick brewery lol

 

also Fonta Flora's brass monkey tastes exactly like fruit loops so I wouldn't mind to see them bottle it with fruit loops in the wax haha

 

I mean, I wasn't outraged by the baby getting removed from the Breakfast Stout, it was more of a, "Why is this a problem?" The level of offensiveness is so low that it surprised people more than anything. Most of the "outrage" was people wanting to rant on a website.

Oh, and the OP is obviously a troll. Who really cares if it's covered in waxed cereal? They did it for the fun of it, pure and simple. I'm certain it came about with someone going. "Why don't we put cereal in the wax? Wouldn't that be hilarious?!"

Beer is meant to be enjoyed, and obviously you can dissect it all you want. But, beer is something that is enjoyable from the second you look a the bottle.

I suppose the OP eats nothing but plain rice and off brand vanilla ice cream so his delicate eyes aren't muddled by packaging.

 

Here's the most annoying part about this whole thread. If a brewery like Russian River or the Alchemist or Treehouse did this y'all would be foaming at the bits and praising this. My friend and I were talking about this and this is what he has to say...

"If FFF decided to have Honey Nut 666s of Satan Diabolical Imperial Stout of Hell people would go fucking nuts. 'Bro got my hands on a single bottle of HN6x3SDISH. Give me a whole case of Heady for it...Oh, did I mention it's barrel aged and then hand dipped in a shaman's earwax?'"

Where's the lie. Some of y'all on this sight are so freaking ridiculous it drives me crazy.

 

You're painting with a pretty broad brush there. Especially when most of the people on this site haven't even posted in this thread.

 

Right? I expected their "beard beer" to have beard clippings embedded in the wax-topped bottle, but no dice.

They can go in for those crazy-heavy ceramic flip-tops but wax is too expensive?

 

I just realized how much the neck of that bottle looks like the lower 25% of an IPA glass.

 

The baby label was back at the end of December. It was removed due to Foundrs not have
Ing registered it, not that it was deemed offensive.
http://www.mlive.com/business/west-...s_fan-favo.html#incart_2box_news_grand-rapids

 

What? Pepto-pink (and sriracha red) bottles aren't creative?

Actually, a lot of their graphics are pretty good (from a graphic artist).

 

mmmmm FIS. That's the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the pic.

 

https://blackbottlebrewery.com/events/

I was distressed to see that a local brewery is having people vote for a cereal to be used in a new beer.
There are only two kinds of cereals that are acceptable in beer: barley and wheat. Breakfast cereals need not apply.

 

You sir have never experienced the sheer joy of Ballast Point's Victory at Cereal.

'Twas a Victory at Seach cask stuffed with C'apn Crunch.

Simply awesome.

 

What do you think breakfast cereals are made of? Wheat, corn and sugar, mostly. All honest ingredients. Albeit it’s a stupid and expensive way to use them.

 

Coincidence?

 

Whoa do you know Walter White?!