Foreign Objects

I agree they should keep the great ones in semi constant rotation but at $20 a 4 pack their best best for constant sales is new beers. I can't count how many times I have seen brewers have a good beer only to pump it out into full time production and once the in store stock start to age its over. If they want to release the great ones on a semi regular basis word but if they try to keep something in stock all the time it will fail.

 

I went back and bought one more can each of What We All Want and MBLS, so, yes, I guess I will.

 

Yeah, I fall into that camp that's getting increasingly crotchety about paying the same price for a 4-pack that I used to pay for a case of 24 not too long ago. I still buy the expensive stuff, but I search out better values, too.

Along the lines of what FBGS is saying here, an annual release of one or two of a brewery's better beers might get my buying it on the reg every year. Otherwise, I think upstarts are pricing many of their products almost exclusively as tick items -- at least for some segment of their customers.

 

Although at least for now, they are selling through everything they ship out. My Whole Foods sold out of all FO cans in 3 hours. Sounds like your source lasted a little longer though. I would have bought more if they hadn’t sold out so quickly.

 

The new marketing strategy seems to be to make people followers of the brewery, and not any beer in particular- keeps the tickers coming back, and the word of mouth hot.

 

Drinking a Mind/Body/Light/Soul. That is one hell of a beer.

 

I tried In The Gold Dust Rush last night and it was pretty horrible. Under-carbonated, citrus with an awkward sweetness, and very hot alcohol flavor that surprised me for a 6-ish percent IPA. I think I could replicate this beer with Sunny D, a grapefruit, and vodka. The snowglobe look wasn't doing it any favors either. I received it from a friend who kept it refrigerated as did I. No date on the can, but based on the dates in this thread it's probably a few weeks old and I think the can was slightly underfilled. That's no excuse though; quality control is part of being a professional brewer, and I have plenty of other options for IPAs.

Foreign Objects: 1 win, 1 loss.

 

yeah, In The Gold Dust Rush is earning a lot less stellar reviews compared to some of FO's other stuff on Untappd. will probably hold off on that one.

 

i really enjoyed in the gold dust rush. also liked what we all want. picked up green galaxy, willful delusion of false perceptions, and fascination street yesterday. all 3 neipas apparently. excited to try them

 

I've tried 3 FO beers (MBLS, Wet Gravity, and What We All Want) and my lowest ranking was a 4.13 (and I'm pretty stingy with my 4+ reviews). I really like what they're doing. That having been said, there are alternatives out there that are less expensive and equally good.
THAT having been said, I'd probably revisit Wet Gravity no matter what the cost. It's that good.
You can't buy happiness, but you can buy good beer and that's pretty close.

 

Wet Gravity is a phenomenal, dry and flavorful beer. I don't know how many times they've brewed this but it's absolutely worth seeking out.

 

I've found all of the Foreign Objects 4 packs from $15-18 a piece under the distribution umbrella of 31st And Wharton.

I think the issue is that as you get closer to Philladelhia and it's surrounding suburbs, retailers severely price gouge beer products, probably as bad as or even worse than they do in Manhattan, making that demographic the most expensive in the country for craft beer.

 

Managed to find some of their beers here on the Nassau/Suffolk border...I’ve been very impressed so far. Looking forward to getting my hands on anything that makes it out here.

 

I wish that I could say you are wrong here but...

The selection of craft beer in SEPA is absolutely wonderful. The prices charged for those craft beers is a different story altogether.

Cheers!

 

just dropped a big shipment to Remarkable Liquids for NY. Wet Gravity + 2 new beers.

 

Is Foreign Objects now dating their cans? I'm drinking a Wet Gravity and just noticed a very smudged "062418" blending in with the top of the label. Assuming that's a 3 month shelf life from March 24th.

www.imgur.com/a/J8oAygv

 

No way my dude...I'd never be okay with my precious hops sitting for 3 months! The brewery we produced at does that standard on all packaged products regardless of anything else.
For all future releases, they will have a "packaged on" date.

 

Very, very happy with Wet Gravity. Opening the 2 new ones today.

I do wish the distro happened a little bit quicker so we could try these at 2 weeks (presumably their peak?) as opposed to a month, but I know it’s a huge nightmare to work with the broken PA distribution system. Maybe that’s asking too much?

 

The most recent packaging run appears to have been on 4/4 (give or take a day?) so seems I am getting them closer to your two week limit versus one month (they hit the area Monday/Tuesday last week) .