And I sure wish I would've saved one of the dinky, 7oz. Anchor Steam Old Foghorn barleywine bottles for my, "beer-wall-of-fame" collection.....but there's still a number of unpacked boxes after the last house move from 10 years ago so.........fingers crossed......
I miss the days when a variety pack actually had variety. Had some friends over the other day and one of them brought a Deschutes mix pack… Fresh Squeezed, Fresh Haze, Mirror Pond, and a lemon radler type beer. So three pale ales/IPAs and a fucking fruit beer. I love Mirror Pond and would happily drink that all day but where’s the Black Butte?
I liked variety packs better when that was what they were. Now I think that they contain made up slight variants of the popular beer in the pack.
That pic of your fridge is AWESOME!!!. Yes, Alpine as a local(ish) gem...Founders, Terrapin, Revolution, BCBS....Those were the days to be so excited to trade!. I'd bait people with Pliny, Bruery, the above shown Nelson and Duet. Dear Lord. I loved getting a shot at Pipeworks, New Glarus, and many others.
Man, some good nostalgia going on here. there was a sweet spot in the early 20-teens where craft beer abundance and scarcity met at an apex. coincidentally this was also right when i was really getting into craft beer. here in Portland that meant having my mind blown the first few times I visited Hair of the Dog, or the first time a buddy of mine came back from north carolina with all sorts of goodies we never saw or heard of on the west coast. there seemed to be a much more understood hierarchy of what beers were awesome and top of class for style, and so you could really seek out and savor beers when you finally ran across them. nowadays we are awash in craft beer. its not necessarily a negative, but its different.
