Your "Dear John" letter to a beer destination

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  1. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,157) Mar 12, 2009 New York
    In Memoriam Pooh-Bah Trader

    Here is mine:

    Dear Vermont;

    I have loved you for a long time. For skiing back when I was a ski bum. For the beauty of your state. And for the last ten years for the great beer made in your state. I have put up with your attitudes to me, that condescending attitude of having to suffer my presence, your grudging endurance of having to take my money though you wish I would just go back home. The looks you give me when you hear I don't have the same accent as you have. I put up with it all for all these years because I truly love your beer. No more. You will be happy to know I am staying home and you won't have to put up with me any more.

    I am breaking up with you, Vermont. The local beer around here now is just as good. In fact, it has gotten even better. I can't tell you how nice it is to be on friendly terms with the makers and sellers of this beer, the gratitude I receive, the feeling I am a valued customer, not some alien interloper. I can't tell you how great it is now that I don't have to endure your attitudes, not to mention the long drive I had to make to get a cold shoulder from you while I dropped lots of NY money on you. I am breaking up with you, and I won't be back. I'm sure you won't miss my money. I'm sure I won't miss your attitudes. Goodbye Vermont, goodbye forever.

    How about you? Do you want to send a "Dear John" letter to some 'beer destination' now that you can get beer just as good from friendly folks at home? If so, what would your letter look like?
     
    #1 cavedave, Jan 11, 2018
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  2. rozzom

    rozzom Pooh-Bah (2,620) Jan 22, 2011 New York
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    @guinness77 - cavedave just went and made a purpose built thread
     
    #2 rozzom, Jan 11, 2018
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  3. zid

    zid Grand Pooh-Bah (3,132) Feb 15, 2010 New York
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    @cavedave , I seem to remember you talking of retiring there at one point... but that was then. I guess you're glad your retirement came a little later than expected. Dodged a bullet? :slight_smile:
     
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  4. rozzom

    rozzom Pooh-Bah (2,620) Jan 22, 2011 New York
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    Lol - the beer gods were really listening today
     
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  5. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,157) Mar 12, 2009 New York
    In Memoriam Pooh-Bah Trader

    Yes, I was looking at Hardwick when my wife wouldn't agree to sell her half of the house to me during our divorce, and my youngest boy still lived near to there, and planned to settle. I think I would have been able to put up with the attitudes if I lived 20 min. from Hill Farmstead lol. So glad things worked out better, especially as I now can get Hill Farmstead-esqe beer from the friendly folks at Suarez right here at home!
     
    #5 cavedave, Jan 11, 2018
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  6. Harrison8

    Harrison8 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,285) Dec 6, 2015 Missouri
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    I'll keep taking trips to St. Louis until the KC beer market matches it, until then, I won't be writing any letters.

    We're finally getting NE IPAs with some regularity, and a few world class stouts, but nothing around the calendar year that would make me dump traveling 4 hours for world class beer available every week. Maybe, and hopefully, 2018 will yield improved beer on our side of the state.
     
    #6 Harrison8, Jan 11, 2018
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  7. rozzom

    rozzom Pooh-Bah (2,620) Jan 22, 2011 New York
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    Dear John,

    I really really used to like Heady Topper, but recently I've................
     
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  8. Squire

    Squire Grand Pooh-Bah (4,385) Jul 16, 2015 Mississippi
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    To the theme of 'Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover'.
     
    #8 Squire, Jan 11, 2018
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  9. Jacobier10

    Jacobier10 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,102) Feb 23, 2004 New Jersey
    Pooh-Bah

    I don't get up to NY often anymore, so when I do I like to spend my time there wisely. Aside from Suarez, what other breweries make you want to leave VT in the dust?
     
    #9 Jacobier10, Jan 11, 2018
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  10. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,157) Mar 12, 2009 New York
    In Memoriam Pooh-Bah Trader

    Equilibrium, Plan Bee, Hudson Valley, Industrial Arts, District 96, Captain Lawrence, Sloop, Rushing Duck, just quick off the top of my head.

    Not for nothing NJ is killing it lately, you should send NY a Dear John lol
     
    #10 cavedave, Jan 11, 2018
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  11. kinopio

    kinopio Savant (1,037) Apr 30, 2009 Massachusetts

    Dear Vermont,

    Your beer is delicious and the craft beer scene in this country would not be where it is without you. See you in the spring.
     
    #11 kinopio, Jan 11, 2018
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  12. chipawayboy

    chipawayboy Pooh-Bah (2,181) Oct 26, 2007 Massachusetts
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    Say it ain’t so!! Do this right away — Make a reservation at HotW in Waterbury — have the Jasper Hill Baley Haze Blue cheese to start. Get a draft Heady (still incredible on draft). Have the mushroom toast. Soak up the one of a kind atmosphere. Pick anyone of their amazing entrees and have another Heady. Walk or drive back to Blackback and get a River Roost Mas Verde...chat w/ the unpretentious owners and clientele. Contemplate your next Beer. Maybe a Society and Solitude #5? This should be enough to convince you to take her back — and you did it all within a square mile. :grin:
     
    #12 chipawayboy, Jan 11, 2018
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  13. EvenMoreJesus

    EvenMoreJesus Initiate (0) Jun 8, 2017 Pennsylvania

    Is it bad that I don't want to break up with any of them? Sometimes it's nice to booty call a place you haven't been for a while.
     
    #13 EvenMoreJesus, Jan 11, 2018
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  14. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,157) Mar 12, 2009 New York
    In Memoriam Pooh-Bah Trader

    Yeah yeah, been visiting Vermont and loving all the good things (things, not people) for fifty years, Pretty sure I have an accurate read at this point.

    Goodbye, Vt., when you visit NY I promise to be a whole lot nicer to you than you were to me.
     
    #14 cavedave, Jan 11, 2018
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  15. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    Dave, you are a Gentleman.

    Cheers to you sir!
     
    #15 JackHorzempa, Jan 11, 2018
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  16. rozzom

    rozzom Pooh-Bah (2,620) Jan 22, 2011 New York
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    The entire state was mean to you CD?

    Genuinely I’ve only ever had great experiences up there
     
    #16 rozzom, Jan 11, 2018
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  17. IBUBrew

    IBUBrew Initiate (0) May 6, 2017 Vermont

    Great! More for us! (Half-joking)
     
    #17 IBUBrew, Jan 11, 2018
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  18. Shanex

    Shanex Grand Pooh-Bah (4,960) Dec 10, 2015 France
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    I feel like a Oregonian could write the same letter to California.
     
    #18 Shanex, Jan 11, 2018
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  19. rgordon

    rgordon Pooh-Bah (2,701) Apr 26, 2012 North Carolina
    Pooh-Bah

    That's what's wrong with y'all suthners. Y'all got more damned manners than than you know what to do with. Shit's contagious.
     
    #19 rgordon, Jan 11, 2018
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  20. chipawayboy

    chipawayboy Pooh-Bah (2,181) Oct 26, 2007 Massachusetts
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    What about your little side piece Foam? Bet you are gonna keep her gmail address in your phone book....
     
    #20 chipawayboy, Jan 11, 2018
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