Bear Republic to return to MA within the next two weeks.

If a shelf can make a turd, can it also make a fart?

But seriously, I hope to see fresh Bear Republic in Mass. I love Tartare, and I'm totally down for waxing nostalgic with a Racer 5.

 

Took a trip down nostalgia lane and ordered a draft R5 over the weekend. Stale faint fruit flavor - bleh. Also saw ~ 15 twelve packs at my local store which are almost assuredly past their prime already and will continue to collect dust @ $21 asking price.

Sad - this used to be one of my faves on trips to CA or when it was avail fresh around here.

 

Was wondering why there was super fresh Racer 5 at my local packy ... must get some today.

 

Send a note to the brewery ... check the freshness date on the bottle if you can, I am sure @BearRepublic would love to remove all old product if possible.

 

Racer 5 that I saw yesterday had a best before date of Feb 26th 2016

 

Curious who the brewer holds responsible here? The distributor? The liquor store itself? Sure a brewery doesn't have the resources to monitor every store. I mean it'd be fantastic if they could, but I consider myself a man of reason!

 

Bear Republic is pretty big, so they could probably have people responsible for something like that. Stone takes their freshness dating very seriously and you can even report stores that are selling old Stone beer. It can be done.