Monkish Brewing (January 2017)

As to what some of these folks are standing in line for $5 cans of beer for - I think the answer has to be profit. A quick $50 or $100 would motivate a lot of people.

 

Those kids don't care where they're hanging out - they're going to be doing the same things wherever they're at. I wouldn't bring my kid to wait in line, but only because I don't wait in lines for beer anymore.

This is a joke, right? Every sporting event I've been to has drunker people than any beer release I've been to - outside of festivals.

It looked really cold there....

 

In my adult life...I have come to the understanding that millions of people do not and have not considered the concept of Time vs. Money. In the case of beer, they also have not considered the law.

 

...because tailgating for hours and hours before the game is all about the sports...

 

he should have edited to this song, in slow motion

 

When the Coliseum stopped selling beer at USC games, that had absolutely nothing to do with people getting obliterated at the games... amirite?

 

When I pointed out that parents took their toddler to the Tovarish bottle release and waited in line in the rain, I was told "how does it affect me?"

It doesn't. But like these monkish parents, it does have to question someone's priorities and their willingness to put a child at risk all for the sake of beer/profits.

 

Was the kid dressed appropriately for the weather?

Just trying to judge how much "risk" these kids are actually exposed to. Unless the parents are being negligible to the needs of the child (regardless of what they are lining up for), then it does not appear there is really all that much risk to me.

Does this mean you should not take your kid camping in the fall/early spring because they'd be exposed to colder temperatures for a longer period of time than a beer line in Long Beach?

 

Enough with the "kids" or "no kids"
I don't think Monks even gives a sh!te if they have kids there or if the chairs are lined up at 3am or if they are drinking in the lot before opening or if they all have mules with them. Kids or no kids, these places will have parents bringing their kids in with them so they can have a good time drinking. Just hope they are responsible. I don't care if both parents are drinking and have their kids with them and go out driving and gets into an accident or gets a dui. NOt my problem. It will be there problem to figure out whats next.

 

No judging here about the kids. Those people probably don't spend any time with their children at all except waiting in line at Monkish. You should 100% devote all of your time to doing hikes, picnics, camping, gymnastics, football, soccer, baseball, etc etc etc with your children and basically do everything you can to avoid having your own life as well. THE AUDACITY!!!!!!

 

What does that have to do with going to a game? You tailgate at every sporting event you go to? The kids are getting something out of being at game. Plus, you don't have to be 21 to enjoy a seat at the stadium. They sell booze there, sure. Its not the same thing. It's more of a courtesy to others and maybe having your kid do something more productive.

 

I'm pretty sure Henry does care about his brewery being called Monks though. I mean, come on. NO MSG, NO IPA'S AND NO STUPID NICKNAMES.

 

OK forget about the kids, how about the elderly?

 

if not for beer releases, when will grandchildren spend time with pop pop and me'ma? Gonna be an awfully lot of sad elderly people waiting at the retirement center porch wondering when the next limit 2pp bottle release gonna drop.

 

#1 if kids standing around all day is what they'd be doing anways, well then thats a problem in itself.

#2 no they don't. You know how i know that? My kid doesn't need a fake ID to get in.

#3 it was Socal cold. About mid 50.

Look my mine issue is the parents bringing kids to the lines, but you're missing something if you think taking a kid to brewery is like taking a kid to a ball game.

They don't mind being there...lol..okay.

 

Tailgating is generally done in association with a sporting event and not just done randomly. People generally just don't post up in the parking lot of a 7-11 andwhip out grills and coolers.

Generally, yes. I like sports, I like to drink and I think they go well together. I'm guessing there are a lot of Americans that feel similarly about alcohol and sports.

How does that excuse the violence and public drunkenness?

Legally speaking, you don't have to be 21 to be at a brewery's taproom either. If kids at breweries bother you, don't go to breweries that allow children.

Also, you are passing judgment on these parents based on 1 hour of observed behavior without any clue what those parents provide to their children in terms of opportunities, activities and whatnot.

 

Yes, that is a problem. But assuming a child isn't fulfilled because you saw him stand in a line for 1 hour with his dad is simply ridiculous on your part.

Doesn't need one to go sit an Monkish either. There goes your point...

So... not really cold.

Actually, you're missing something if you think we should be concerned about violence and public drunkenness at a beer release but not at a sporting event. Excusing that violence because the kid is being entertained is crap logic.

 

This still just reads like you don't want to hang around kids while out drinking (totally understandable) and are coming up with excuses why that's morally wrong of the parents. You don't need an ID to get in to a brewery either, kids are totally welcome at Monkish - it even says so on their website.

I didn't say that taking a kid to a brewery to wait in line is comparable to taking them to a ball game. But, from my many brewery visits around the world over the years and many, many sporting events attended across the country, a ballgame exposes kids to a lot more drunkeness and violence than a weekday afternoon at a brewery. And it's not even really close.

Really, the kids waiting in line here are having as much fun as waiting in line at the DMV, or any of the other 1000 errands I remember being bored out of my mind doing with my parents when I was younger.

And the big issue is that morons are still lining up for beer. Especially canned/bottles IPAs.

 

I don't mind the kids. It's the unemployed neck beards or those that just drop everything just to make a release in fear that'll sell out before they get there.