Side Project / Shared (2022)

Geez

Give up on FoMO. You’ll be happier.

 

3 bottles seems like a high price of admission for an unknown / unusual (kind of) collab. don’t get me wrong, Flim Flam sounds awesome and those other three bottles included are great, but when you’re bundling non-white labels price gets steep fast.

 

I would be more inclined to pull the trigger on a $170 bundle if it was more diversified in styles being offered. Instead of three sours just package one and then a couple different 4pks. Wild ales and sours are the absolute lest of what I drink and by a huge margin so when I have to buy three beers I will most likely never drink just to get the one bottle I actually want it makes it an easy decision to pass. Not completely hating on the bundles because I understand why they do them, but it wouldn't hurt them to mix things up a bit.

 

I said before that packages would be more popular (if still hated on - everyone agrees packages are BS) if they just allowed you to pick what it was bundled with. Give some options. They won’t do that, because they bundle it with stuff that isn’t selling. They won’t bundle it with canned beer, because those actually sell out. Some of the sours just sit for forever though.

 

Looks like single bottles available at the Cellar.

 

Never been happier to skip on a SP package. Every beer happens for a reason.

Hard to tell, but maybe 4 or 5 boxes left from the stack they were pulling from just now. Not a huge crowd.

 

Passed on the package but did pull the trigger buying it individually at the cellar. I’m almost numb to the ridiculous cost of this stuff..

 

Not a huge port BA guy either, but Copestone from Fox Farm is pretty fantastic. That one's an outlier for me.

 

Opa cans Friday, draft today.

 

hope this means Oma to follow

 

cheers SP forum! was planning to open this friday but it was calling my name tonight apparently.

 

How is it?

 

pretty good. better than least year’s ST but not as good as the first year.

 

Pecan Barelywine blow off…

 

Been there…

 

Maybe this has been asked before, but why does Side Project continue to make sours that don't sell unless they are packaged with stouts or barleywines? The allure of their sours has waned significantly over the past few years as has the demand for sours in the general craft beer market. Why not just make more stouts and barleywines if that's what people want?

 

That's a seriously unpopular question to ask, and why it hasn't been asked. That's the only reason it hasn't been discussed at length. I think most everyone that has expressed frustration at pricing and/or packages over the last 6-8 months has wondered why they are producing so much of these beers. There's for sure a lag from production to bringing it to market, but...still.

For sure, they have to produce it. They can't only produce stouts/BWs. But it seems like they'd be better off producing more of what will sell. -Unless the prevailing thought is that more supply will result in lower demand, and thus as long as they can bundle (seems to be getting harder), they will, and that's the best route to take.

But, I think there is writing on the walls.

 

This photo feels NSFW.