I was at a Chinese restaurant in Palo Alto today ,ordered up a Tsing Tao and was told it was on some kind of allotment and very hard to get. Any feed back?
It's starting to become available again. My local distributor for it (Harbor Orange) recently got it after several months of being OOS. I have a regular customer who's asked for it that whole time and I've explained the situation enough he knows to just wait. Quite a few imports in liquor are hard to get; right now, that's especially champagne and cognac. There are still lots of logistical and inventory kinks going on due to COVID. There are literally dozens of ships sitting along the coast waiting to get into San Pedro and that situation is true everywhere.
That's the first thing I did ,but noticed most local places(Total wine and 99) were out of stock. I just found it strange a Chinese restaurant told me they couldn't source it. But I guess it's true.
Im looking for OG Löwenbräu. Cans, bottles or draft. One of these many German/European restaurants/pubs should have it on tap somewhere. I can’t fly back to Germany right now because of our world situation. Back in the DAY, Löwenbräu was the go to beer. Everything else was pretty much crap!
AB doesn't distribute it around here, or anywhere in the US, as far as I'm aware. I get this question more frequently these days, I assume the pandemic has got people nostalgic as I'm getting the same question with brands like Stroh's, Schlitz, Olympia, etc. that are either entirely dead now or hyper-regional.
Your quest for lowenbrau is a noble one. Ever have the domestic lowenbrau malt liquor from the 90s? Only saw it once and it was delish.
