Hop Butcher (2019)

Interesting name

 

dudes post portillos and gene and judes on their instagram feed all the time. they actually posted some gene and judes dogs yesterday followed up by their canning run.

it was canned yesterday, at least it got started. i would assume we would start seeing drops today or tomorrow?

 

Their new email said to expect it Monday at the usual accounts.

 

email!?!?! whaaaat? no idea they had a newsletter. thanks for the heads-up.

 

I didn't either. They tweeted something out earlier in the week saying to join because they plan on sending more emails out.

 

http://www.hopbutcher.com/contact/

^sign up for email updates

 

LOL "South Loop Brewing Company"

 

What did they "comeback" from?

 

Your bad reviews of their beer?

 

if anything, HB ascended to the top tier of the local scene

 

Haha...I wasn't trying to dig at HB. Just legitimately trying to figure out what caused them to be "down" prior to 2018. It seems they were on a pretty upward trajectory prior to 2018, so was curious what the OP thought made them a comeback story.

 

Hot Damn thanks didn't know this existed

 

I don't think I'm allowed to talk about their consistency anymore around these parts.

 

I can understand the Comeback Brewery of the Year thing. Think back to when b1 of Mellotron and Reply Hazy came out, and they had that off, Belgian-y taste. Or when they started taking "New England Style" off of their cans because they were getting grilled on here for consistency (b1 of I Want To Believe was labelled this way, and it was a see-through brown color). This was all prior to 2018, and I really can't think of a bad batch of anything they put out last year.

 

Maybe also the fact that where they were brewing got shut down so they have to move elsewhere? I forget when that happened.

It's still a super weird pick imo

 

Yeah, this is kind of how I took it. Not everyone agreed on every batch, but there seemed to be much more consistency in terms of all the beers at least being decent/good (depending on opinion), and their highs were really, really high (Tavern Cut, a couple of the milkshakes, etc.).

 

Not go all #DictionaryAdvocate here, but a comeback is supposed to imply a return to one's former status/accomplishments (i.e. Andrew Luck is the Comeback Player of the Year in the NFL because he was awesome, then was out for a year with an injury, and returned to his awesomeness this year).

Maybe more of a Most Improved or Rising Star award should be given to Hop Butcher. Perhaps we should've done some Chicagoland Beer Awards for 2018 or something.

 

Bruh I'm gonna let you finish but GB batch 1 is still one of the greatest of all time