Transient Reserve Society

I've had JIL already - got a growler over the summer when I was at the beach in SW MI. It was fine, nothing worth me going too out of my way for...more of a "if I see it available and I need/want some beer, I'll grab some". But, I clearly have a different palate when it comes to the NE style than others around here seem to.

 

More like...your palate doesn't like NE IPAs.

(which is totally cool, given that I like a lot of other shit myself)

 

But then I like some SS versions and Galaxy Bowl. The problem is that it seems hit or miss, so not worth my $$ to keep trying. More for the rest of you filthy animals!

 

Yeah, I won't buy it and Todd the Axeman isn't worth the price. When you can buy far better beers for significantly cheaper, you should. I'm glad people can tick Transient, but really it parallels Ballast Point where they for no reason charged $5 more for beer than all their competitors. And no way Transient is adding $5 more of hops unless they are really bad business men who can't negotiate a contract and are getting bent over on the hop contracts. Ballast Point sold out and someone talked some common sense on pricing into them, let's hope Transient isn't too far away as their ego seems to be a bit greater than their beer.

 

Not sure how much better breweries put out world class beers for much cheaper.....

 

You seem to be a brilliant financial mind. Perhaps your services would do well outside of an Internet forum.

What do you do for a living? Whatever it is, you get paid too much for it just. Why? Because I say so and I have no actual reasoning to back that up. Does that sound ridiculous to you yet?

FYI- Hop "contracts" aren't a negotiation.

 

Parallels Ballast Point?????

Not close! I would take Transient at their price point over Ballast Point literally EVERY day of the week but I guess your palette may differ

 

Can you provide some examples of $20 comparable 4 packs in the industry? Not many come to mind. Unless you are putting a $5 genius tax on your beer.

 

Almost all Trillium & Treehouse is priced the same...that is literally without thinking about it at all

 

This is my gentle reminder that all palates are different, and as much as I can post about one beer being my favorite, or better than another beer, the odds of that being true to others are very slim. We're all individuals with different taste buds and minds...no different than why I may love olives or guacamole but someone else doesn't.

I'd say that @core42 already mentioned this fact, but he was talking about palettes instead.

Transient makes nice beers for those that have been in the style I like (sours/wild ales aren't my thing, so those haven't gotten me hooked on that end). Even though I'm less generally into NE IPA's than others, I liked Juice is Loose more than ones from Trillium & Treehouse, and I really liked Buckley. I think what I'm most intrigued to see is how you guys are integrating into that region and with the locals (probably not a big deal to most here since we tend to just look for wherever the best beer is). I know there are buzz-worthy beers being made there, but I'm intrigued to see how a brewery coming from Chicago gets "accepted" in the smaller towns of SW MI.

 

Damn you palettes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obv I meant palates...stupid autocorrect, I normally catch it but hey I'm 4 big beers in today

 

I don't understand the price debate. Either buy or don't. I have no problem with Transient's pricing. I'm just glad they are in Michigan. Love their beer!

 

Trolls gonna troll.

If Transient wasn't like a 4 hour round trip I'd buy the shit out of their beer. Just paid $14, $16 and $18 a 4 pack at Ellison's can release and they don't seem nearly as highly regarded as Transient.

Also, WTF is a genius tax?

 

A couple of things. 1. The way these beers get so juicy is to dry hop the hell out of them, which is amazingly inefficient and expensive. 2. Chris has a tiny brewery with a tiny setup. It's going to be a little more expensive because of that. Less economies of scale. So yea he isn't taking anyone for a ride.

 

Are you this bad at math? Pipeworks Ninja vs Unicorn and Half Acre Double Daisy Cutter are both $9.99/22oz, a hell of a lot more expensive per ounce than DIPA's from Transient. Trolling is not a good look on you.

 

Have we really become so entitled that we feel we can tell a business how much to sell their product for? If you don't like the price, don't buy it. It's pretty simple. But people really shouldn't feel like they're entitled to tell a business what's what unless they own a share. That's just crying, and there's no crying in beer.

 

This!

 

So you are comparing a 22oz bottle to 4 16oz cans? Okay, I'll humor you. Let's compare apples to apples using your example of Ninja v Unicorn which is now sold in 4 packs of 16 oz cans, for get this, $12.00. So my math is pretty good, your understanding of bomber vs 4 pack pricing seems to be poor. Bombers are traditionally more expensive... You've also listed HA Double Daisy Cutter which will be released in 4 packs soon if it already hasn't been. Guess where the pricing will be on that? Right around the price of their bombers of it.

 

Seriously can you guys start a new thread and debate it there?

 

It's "traditionally higher" priced because it is how small breweries get their beer to market at the margin they need to operate. Small breweries don't can because
1. It's either a higher initial cost of equipment or higher mobile canning fee (twice that of a bomber for packaging)
2. Some people devalue the product for the simple reason that it's in a can with no actual facts to back it up. (You)
3. Bottling allows you to smaller runs because set up time is much lower.

Until this year pipeworks sold all their beer in bombers, and still sell many of them in that way, and they will put out 80+ times as much as I do. And half acre still hasn't done cans of many of their double ipas. Again, aside from the material it is packaged in what provides value to a bomber over a can?