Sheaf Stout: is it still available?

Where are you based, OP?

 

What’s your local store?

I did a quick look on Untappd, and no one has checked one in around the Seattle area in a long time. Total Wine doesn’t seem to carry it locally, and it seems like the kind of beer they’d stock if they could.

https://www.totalwine.com/beer/ale/stout/american-stout/sheaf-stout/p/5206825

 

I sometimes see it in random Mom n Pop mini-marts, but no idea of freshness.

Hmm, always meant to tick it, never have. Now I have a goal for this week.

 

I can see someone being disappointed in not finding Sheaf Stout in North Dakota, but the Seattle area?

 

Dude likes what he likes. Not having had Sheaf, I might recommend Wander Correspondent as being somewhat similar. Anyway, I bet we have multiple local breweries that make equivalents.

 

It was an AB InBev product, but they sold it to a Japanese beer company this past July. That probably explains why it disappeared. It was a common grocery store beer.

 

I like Sheafie..haven't even looked for it for a year. Used to be widely available in Oregon in the early 2000s.
I will check the local cheap cig places they always seem to have these old favs.

 

Someone did a review and said they got a bottle at Blaine WA in late August...the last?

 

There's gotta be a store in Sumas then.....

 

It's been imported by MillerCoors since the SABMiller days, and MillerCoors retained the US import rights for those former SAB beers after buying the part of MillerCoors they no longer owned when ABInBev bought SAB, based on the agreement with the US DoJ - just as they still import Pilsner Urquell tho' the brewery is now also owned by Asahi.

It's still on their Nutritional Code pdf list of beers (revised April, '19), on page 17.

I'd contact MC to see if they still import it (previous threads on the beer here on BA suggest that it had not been well-distributed in the US for many years) - after that, if they do, it's probably a decision of the local MC house to stop carrying it.

MillerCoors Toll Free # 1- (800) 645-5376
MillerCoors Import Toll Free # (from Pilsner Urquell can) - 1-(800) 752-9188

 

It is actually getting hard to find any stout apart from Guinness in bottles/cans anymore.

 

Well, there's Deschutes Obsidian Stout. And Black Butte Porter scratches a similar itch.

Fremont Dark Star is a bit harder to find, but it's worth the effort because it is even more delicious.

 

Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout, anyone?

 

Does Big Bad Baptist still make its way to WA? feel like I haven't seen that one in a while.

 

Wow, not just discontinued but deleted. They'll never acknowledge it even existed now. Seems a bit drastic but whatever.

 

Swear I saw some in the neighborhood Rosauer's last week. Never considered it anything to seek out but always found it comforting there was an okay stout at a good price in a big-ass bottle whenever I popped in to buy groceries.