Anyone else been duped by World Brews?

Thanks for the heads up. I've seen them around but never pulled the trigger.

 

"Label Beer" ... they just reached out to me about press samples. That should be an interesting night to say the least.

 

Dieselpunk's Stout was decent...

 

Good to know, I was not familiar with them but will be keeping this in mind.

 

You could have checked the ratings here before buying it.
You could have saved yourself a couple of dollars

 

Minhas Brewery is brutal for this very issue in Canada: they seem to unleash a brand new label to the Alberta market about once-a-week, and it's way too easy to grab a random bottle on the shelf to try something new, only to get home and discover from the small print that it's another offering from maybe the worst brewery in North America.

 

Yeah I don't buy beer based on ratings per say, but I always check the brewer rating to avoid stuff like this. You know something is up when they are rolling in with a 2.81 and they have like 81 beers. Wonder how many of those are the same with just different labels

 

It's weird because they have specific brands in specific stores (at least to me)
Kroger - Caguama/Caguama Lite (a Corona clone)
Harris Teeter - Tap Room
Whole Foods - Four In Hand

 

That is the Winery Exchange's World Brews subsidiary's business plan:

They supply private label brands to various supermarket, drug, liquor store and other retail chains. Private beer brands were once very common in the US (and still exist for a few chains like Trader Joe's and Costco). If you check the pull down menu in the above link, every brand has it's own website which usually lists the chain(s) where the brand is available. For instance, the OP's Dieselpunk can be found in "Kroger, Fred Meyer, Dillons, Baker's, Smith's, Fry's, Food 4 Less (select locations), QFC, City Market, and King Soopers and is “Coming Soon” to Ralph’s in So. CA" and Tap Room No. 21 has a similar list.

Most of World Brew's domestically-brewed beers comes out of NAB's Genesee brewery - so seeing "Rochester, NY" on a beer label, regardless of brand/brewery name (especially outside of NY state), is reason to be suspicious. Not every label mentions "World Brews" - some use other dba names, like this one for Roscoe's Hop House:

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I usually know what I want when I buy beer, but I do buy anything that looks good if it's affordable so it's just a matter of time before it happens to me.

 

I try to wait till all you guys and gals buy that stuff and put bad words on here about them. Ya'll save me a lot of grief and money. Seriously I do depend on you folks alot. Cheers

 

Think of all the people that grab one of these in a grocery store and go damned those people drinking that craft beer, I just don't get it

 

Good luck with that. Maybe if they read this threed they will decline to send them.

 

I've been duped once by Tap Room 21, but never again.

I feel the same way about Saranac, for whatever that's worth. Finally got people to stop buying me their mixed 12-packs as gifts; that took some doing (and not a little bit of assholery). "Look, it's twelve different beers, that's perfect!" Twelve different mediocre beers that are guaranteed not to taste like the style listed on the label, you mean. Pass.

 

I remember seeing these at Whole Foods in the past and noticed they were very inexpensive compared to everything else in the beer isle. Really odd..

Picked one up looked at it, real cheap design on the label kind of bland, where the heck is this made?!? Couldn't even figure out or it seemed real misleading trying to decipher the label. So that explains everything now.

 

I was duped once. Bought a 6-pack for $6.99 at Whole Foods. It was horrible and undrinkable.
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/21092/70008/

 

You know what cracks me up about some of these beers is the lone review in the upper 4's. It is usually by someone who created their account that day, reviewed the beer, then never came back again. Not saying that it is fishy, but...