Great Notion

If you look at BbyDigital's avatar, you'll see that it's a pic of Bernie Sanders...holding a can of Heady.

The dude obviously controls the trade of Heady into Oregon, and he's afraid that all the De Garde traders won't need Heady anymore, now that Great Notion is on the scene. He's protecting his turf.

 

On the premise that they were standard 1/2bbl kegs, there were 1984oz available. Dudes are coming in and grabbing 640+ oz at a time? I know that GG exists to sell beer, but maybe there's a point where they say "whoa there cowboy, settle down"? How many of their regular, loyal customers missed out because of this?

 

I actually felt the same way and was hoping they'd set limits since my parents were going to be in Portland the next day and I wanted a crowler....

 

Well, it does raise the question if it's even a bottle shops place to set limits. They do it all the time for limited release bottles, why not limits on draft-to-go? Or is it a thing where they follow the breweries wishes? Growler Guys gets tons of love in this forum, is this regular policy for them "Yeah sure, we'll empty this keg into cans for ya!"?

 

Well, if folks are buying 20+ containers at a time, it would seem to indicate that at least some people consider it rare enough that they have to grab as much as they can when they see it.

 

Definitely not plentiful. The first two times I went there they only had one IPA on. Sold Out across the others. I actually went to GG during this time because Juice Jr. was gone at the brewery.

 

Make America Respect Beer Again. Thats what it said.

 

Let's not let facts or reality get in the way of internet forum chatter.

No one purchased 20+ crowlers of Juice Jr while we had in on-tap. I believe 1 or 2 guys purchased 12 crowlers during the span of over 5+ hours on a Saturday...as in, bought 3 crowlers...decided to come back later and buy 3 more, etc. I know it's double digits but 12 is a far far cry from 20.

Regardless, do you know how long Juice Jr was on-tap before those 1 or 2 guys purchased ~12 crowlers? A full six days. And looking at the reports from the day after those 12 crowlers were purchased we still had enough beer to fill four 64oz growlers, three crowlers and multiple pints. Cry me a river that we 'allowed' 1 or 2 customers to 'drain' the keg when we had it available for an entire week.

I think anyone who is a regular customer of ours knows we either don't do fills of certain specialty type beers that only come in 1/6bbl's for the very reason that we want as many people as possible to have a chance to try 'X' beer. But people are going to criticize or get into FOMO mode that we 'allowed' a couple customers to 'drain' a keg of a brand new breweries beer that up until 6 days from the day we tapped it was moving at a slower pace than every other IPA we had on the board? Sorry, just doesn't compute for me. Bitch about something else.

 

Well, that would be a first.

 

I apologize for the Internet hyperbole. 20 each is not 12.

 

Maybe they bought their own beer too?

 

Jesus.....enough about this brewery. we are now analyzing crowler policy and breaking down price-per-ounce pricing. Drink their beer or dont, nobody really gives a shit

 

Then what's the point of the thread/forum/world?

 

I didn't mean to misrepresent your impressions. You called one beer watery, lacking depth and at the same time tasty. And another you described as basic, not complex and not something you'd seek out again. Sounded like you didn't really care for those beers. As @John_M would say "shrug", I guess what really matters is what you meant to convey, not my interpretation.

 

Follow the teachings of Brian.

 

I actually think beer pricing really matters and is worth talking about.