Counter Weight Brewing Company (2018)

I've got 2 bottles in my fridge, been there forever.

 

Why? It's not getting any better.

Opened my lat PM three years ago at an Igor's release and it was already past its prime.

The wax-seal (2013?) Attempted RedRum was also a goner when I opened it thanksgiving weekend 2015, but the plastic (2014?) was still drinking fine at EBF.

 

Lost interest in it, I had a few more and drank them when they were new and these two just sat at the bottom of the drawer. Maybe it will be my pre-storm beer tonight.

 

Yes. It is on tap now and tasting great.

 

Pumped to see all these IPAs finally making it into production, but excuse me if i'm wrong here, but wasn't Counter Weight originally going to be like a wild ale sour brewery? I just remember seeing a picture of their coolship.

Is it possible that they are pumping out the IPAs while the wild beers mature over?

 

No, never was going to be wild ale sour brewery. Does have a coolship. not operational yet. Also will have a foeder.

 

Cans still in distributor warehouse?

 

Of course the cans are in distributor. They will be there for a few weeks. How else will you create a scarce product so that all the liquor stores can have passwords and secret hand shakes. This is my attempt at sarcasm. I hope games are not played with this distribution.

 

I am pretty sure that Headway will be the only beer exclusive to distribution (at least to start). Evidently, Matt is wise to the whole distribution "scheme" that runs rampant in CT. I hope all his other offerings are brewery only. Let's be realistic, Hamden is relatively centrally located in a small state. It isn't like fellow Yankees can't find time to get down there every week or two to pick up cans and growlers.

 

Matt has this down. Distribute something that may be popular, brewery only releases for more selective stuff.

The thing that kills me here is the people commenting on how new breweries should operate, when thinking in terms of beer geeks. It's not only about us! Some breweries realize - it's a good thing! - that they need to reach more people in order to make the more rare beers, e.g. coolship beers (expensive).

Headway IPA and others will fund more interesting beers.

 

They commented on FB today that they are brewing a batch of Space Coyote. Said that "this batch" is galaxy and "each batch will explore a few different hop combinations". The can they show in the post says 6.0 ABV on it.

And for those that think Hamden is centrally located ... you must not have fought traffic on the Merritt from Western Fairfield County!!

 

I work in Wilton. Far enough west for you? I am well aware of the traffic. And I am speaking relatively; hordes of beer drinkers from CT flock to TH weekly and Trillium and VT frequently. CW is also open Saturdays unless that conflicts with your work schedule. In sum, picking up a few sixers a month from CW doesn't appear to be a stretch.

 

CW's FB shows a photo of 4 brews with stickers. All are in cans. I highly doubt those are going to be sours or barrel aged limited releases. Not to say that he wont have those in the future but I highly doubt they are "rare". Seems like they are likely "standard" brewery release only (stout, IPA, saison, Pils)?

 

Had Headway tonight at Brewport, very solid, would definitely buy it in cans,

 

I guess I can trump you with Stamford for work and Ridgefield for where I live () both of which are surprisingly large increases in drive time from Wilton. I'm sure I will make it up there at some point, but it's not remotely realistic to think it will be frequently (which is why I love distribution option). NEBCO is a 2-3 time a year event. Add the tunnel and a few more exits and it is a hike. It isn't VT, Treehouse or Trillium that is true.

 

Did you even see my post above about the coolship and foeder? He's engaging the market with general releases. Then will build from there.

 

Points for having the most oxymoronic sounding post in the thread.

 

I'm excited to make some Counter Weight -> NEBCO trips from Middletown in the near future.

 

Thought by selective stuff you meant coolship beers. Your words.

 

How so? Am I reading this wrong? Possible! Can't a brewery have a coolship but it's not the main focus? Maybe my wording was wrong on initial post, but I thought it was obvious that you can have general market beers plus unique/more rare stuff. I dunno.