Especially when they spray it wildly nearby when you are sitting down drinking. I'm all for a clean table, but read the room. Sometimes just hot water is fine to avoid spraying chemicals into my glass.
Yards would have to do something truly offensive other than a cookie cutter rebuild/renovation to keep me from coming back. I mean, they still produce English ales and put them on cask.
It's been said at least once, but need to be said again so that some brewers (Tree House) will get the hint. List the abv on your product. What I really don't understand about said brewery above, is that they list the abv on about 70% of their labels. Why not all of them???? It makes absolutely no sense
The pint or half pint choice is good. Limit consumption when needed, and get to try reasonable size serving of more than one beer.
White Stouts are an abomination of the stout style in my opinion. Especially with chocolate in them. Whoever came up with that idea should be pimp-slapped. I'd try a white stout sans coffee, but I don't know if that exists. I just do not like coffee in my beer, at all. But, that's just my opinion.
It's probably just beer that does not get released out into the wild, i.e. other states for distribution. In state packaged beer doesn't have to include that sort of information.
Wow really? That's surprising, they're usually good with just about everything regarding the customer experience. Tree House doesn't distribute beer outside of the brewery. Bars/restaurants or liquor stores.
I thought about this and honestly my main issues is glassware and how it's used. I like glassware to match the style. An IPA pint glass for a stout is just wrong. Another issue with glassware is the tiny glasses you get with small pours. Most places will fill it to the brim. So you have this mini glass and no space in it to actually smell the beer. I now request that I get the small pour in a big glass. Some look at me funny and some understand immediately. They fill the small glass and then pour it into a 12oz snifter (or something like that). The experience is WAY better.
Sometimes we beer consumers need to 'educate' the folks serving us beers. Cheers! P.S. A separate but somewhat related story: “I was at a local craft beer bar and I ordered a 'special' beer that was served in a very small goblet (maybe BCBS?). That beer was too cold so I cupped my two hands around that small glass to warm up the beer. The bartender looked at me with a quizzical look and asked what I was doing. I replied that the beer was too cold and I was warming it up. The bar has a common cold room for all of their kegs and they need to maintain a constant cold temperature (e.g. 38 degrees F) to provide proper serving of the draft beers."
Oh, well. I can't explain why Tree-House hasn't figured out how to implement a master page for their label design in a way that would EASILY address the matter.
I would say that breweries not giving samples pisses me off the most. I'll try your new concoction and I'll even buy a full glass of it if it's halfway decent. But, give me the courtesy of a taste so I don't blow $8-9 on a full glass of something I then find awful.
Agreed that not offering samples and not having a small option is intolerable. I had a fight with the local brewery (currently biggest brewer in Vermont) when their policy changed to no samples. They have since relented.
I am pretty sure it's because breweries spend a ton of money on equipment etc to get the brewing side ready that there isn't really a lot of money left for the actual tap room. Those mass produced metal stools are what's left because you can get a lot of them for cheap at their vendors. They're cheap and they're durable. There is some sense in it, but I would argue that it's a short sighted decision.
