I wish there was a way to preorder pizza even just for dine in, and if you could I would honestly go more. It’s hard to pitch going there with anyone else when the wait could be over an hr, but if I could look and schedule it before getting in the car it’d probably be an every few weeks thing.
Cisco proved you can sell mid to shit, to any idiot in Boston. You could sell God Tier to rabies infected rats and any human in the city. It’s a smart move and I agree with the above. Also, to the point above about how the journey to TH is part of what drove their popularity and the lore. I completely agree. But the people who find the joy in that are long gone and already customers. The current consumer finding it is the parents and people by proxy of others. The beer journey days are gone. Fuck I can get Hill Farmstead all over. Alchemist makes its way to California and Treehouse is pre order at a level you couldn’t actually transfer how much you could buy if you actually tried to spend your mortgage down payment. If I were a Brewey. I’d concentrate on making an incredible product and finding a way to keep the casual parents who go by default of friends. A lot of them aren’t even all that interested. If the parent group thing dries up, or everywhere were forced to be 21+ only. How quickly the landscape would shift. Pivoting is to selling beer and wine was already a sign of breweries realizing that not everyone coming in was there for beer these days. Unfortunately a lot of people I have known who try spirits and non beer things sold by breweries. Tend to say, this isn’t good. We all focus on how much TH sells. I wish there was a study to determine of the groups of people who come. Who buys to go once, who repeatedly buys to go, and who has no interest in to go. That there, is the key to understanding the trends. It will be interesting to see how TH does out of the current 20’s.
Nate is keeping that 1 750 ml growler pp of Good Morning in his back pocket for a rainy day. And yeah I know their current stouts have almost certainly far surpassed GM. But hype and FOMO are real. Just look at HF when they release Ann. $100 for a single bottle IF you were lucky enough to win the online lottery.
I agree, it seems risky at this point. They may have some time and some play before they need to worry Most other brewers have had to expand their facilities to appeal to people outside beer nuts. I think they need to install a kitchen in some locations. In Saratoga in the winter, there are no food trucks, and, I repeat, their pizza is really bad and the garlic knots are floating in oil. ‘my wife couldn’t find anything she wanted to drink (read: wine)
I’ve never had the pizza, so I have no opinion on it. But I’ve never heard a single person call it “really bad.” Tons of people go nuts over it. And with all they have to drink, your wife can’t find a single enjoyable thing?
I've never heard anyone say the pizza is really bad. It's actually some of the best. With all of the products that Treehouse makes your wife wants them to offer a product that they don't make? And considering the quality of the product they put out if they were to offer wine I'd imagine it would be $18-$22 glass pours of something remarkable and not a grocery store wine like other breweries offer. Maybe with time they'll make wine too. Finger Lakes?
first time for everything! i'm totally shocked as i thought their pizza was considered across-the-board excellent. this guy also seems to like bay state DIPA so i guess take it all with a grain of salt lol
Wasn’t crazy about Prestige II - not bad but pretty low on the list of TH beers I’ve had in the last year. Prestige I was top 2 or 3
You know who's gotta be really pissed off about the Celtics pregame airing live from Tree House? Jack's Abby, the official craft beer of the Boston Celtics. If I were in that ownership group, I'd be furious that TH sniped us on that. They even have a Celtics beer. Pretty cool they hosted NBC Boston there, though. Looked like a TON of kids and families. Happy to have watched from the couch with a couple Oblivions -- and then a short pour of Wild Turkey.
People used to bad pizza will not like their pizza. It's much like bud light drinkers not liking TH IPAs
I def agree the pizza is dry sometimes. Even when it’s dry it’s still pretty good - the flavor of the dough and quality of the ingredients is still on point - but not elite. When you get one that’s right on it’s up there with anything but the very very best (L’Industrie, og Sally’s, Zuppardi’s, Pizza Project imo).
Unfortunately, we have a lot of bad pizza around these parts and our predominant style of pizza is one most people would find off putting (Greek/New London style). I say that as someone who would call Greek style pizza a comfort food, having grown up here. The dryness takes away from the mouthfeel (we are on a beer website) for me. I agree the flavor is generally good though. I certainly would not call it bad pizza. The pizza is based off choices. I am not a fan of all of the choices. I just took umbrage with the "excellent across the board" comment. I think folks can speak for themselves, but I have spoken my thoughts on TH pizza before, but I also don't want to go out of my way to be a wet blanket about it every time it comes up. And it's not like I wouldn't order a pizza if I'm there.
