Your Sad Beer Pictures

I've always referred to them as "beer museums", like in the quote from a thread ten years ago.

 

From 1982 in Switzerland. I knocked over the pyramid. Sad? or just perfect freudenschade? Ha!!

 

This. So this.

 

I would upload an image I took at work, but postimages is no longer functioning for me.

 

Something tells me you won't find that on a Black Butte.

 

One of several stacks today at a beer store I don't visit frequently.

 

A month or so ago I visited Smokes & Suds in Dalton Gardens/Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. They have a lot of beers with canning/bottling dates from two years ago. They have a lot of stuff I've not seen elsewhere, but it's so obvious they don't pull stuff that's sitting out at room temperature that I'm not sure I'll visit them again.

 

“There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says ‘Good people drink good beer.’ Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.”
Hunter S. Thompson

Parking lots also reveal this universal truth.

 

That was meant as a response to @DIM's post just above, but I apparently chose to respond to it in an incompetent manner and did not properly use the reply function.

 

Even though this is my closest option, I don't go often. The cooler space is limited and the building isn't even climate controlled. That Celebration is sitting at around 85°

 

"Liked" but not liked. Fuuuuck. Glad you presumably have other sources a little further away.

 

I do for sure. My lager was cold and I can't imagine sugary ass shandys are that fragile so with limited time this afternoon I said what the hell.

 

Mudder of kripes and baby Jaysus! What a waste!

 

A far cry from my experience residing in San Diego 50 years ago. We always looked in the back of the cooler, and once were rewarded with an authentic Ballantine Ale king size six pack of cans that had been brewed in Newark just before the brewery had closed, almost a year earlier. (It tasted GREAT.)

 

I would chance a 12 pack

Enjoy

 

I'm wondering about the relative near term stability of beer in cans vs. bottles. Small scale bottling has been around for quite a while. It's fairly easy to foam the beer before capping to expel oxygen. If the bottle is held upright, all the beer touches is glass, completely inert to the slight acid environment. Minimal effort is needed to protect the bottles from excessive light. I think large volume canning operations can do a good job. But what about small, and even mobile canning? (I won't even touch crowlers.) Oxygen might not be expelled efficiently, and there might be vulnerability to bare metal if the closure wasn't done just right. I'm not sure that cans are the best vehicle for less stable beer. The cans cost the brewery more.

 

I think I could've won this thread, except I don't have a photo:

About 3 years ago, at a Hudson Valley store that sells mostly macro, I picked up a Pretty Things Baby Tree.

Not only had Pretty Things been out of business over 5 years at that point, but the brewers had already moved to England and reopened as St Mars of the Desert.

 

Saw the exact same thing yesterday, stacks of Celebration, and like you also at a store I don’t frequent often.

It also had 6 packs of Firestone Walker Propigator beer that was nearly 3 years old and some Luponic Distortion about the same age.