Highlands Wine & Liquor: poor experience

Pretty sure we're boycotting them



Seriously though I've never been there and don't really care to, I have a couple Denver spots where the staff are great and I can find everything I need. Next time you're in town go to Joy Wine and Spirits instead. Everybody there is super helpful and I don't think they keep stuff hidden in the back.

 

Support for Joy.

 

Sorry man, that's a bummer, guy sounds like a douche.

 

Sounds pretty lame. Normally I could understand some mild expasperation at someone not being specific about what they want, but when it's someone from out of town just looking for a nice bottle and you know that you keep some stuff stashed in the back, just throw him a bone and bring out something decent. There's obviously a middle ground between doing nothing and giving you the last bottle of Cantillon he had hidden away.

 

Sounds frustrating. I'm not sure that Highlands has a "back" storage area. He could have just said, 'no. all we have is on the shelf' (that's what my store does. No room for secret stuff). But maybe he misunderstood. Still, not very skilled in conversation it seems I live just down the street and don't go there, but mainly b/c Mondo is closer...and I get discounts there lol

 

you're nicer than i am. i'm "that guy" who goes in looking for one or two specific beers but always talks the beer guy's ear off and walks away with $50 in stuff i wasn't looking for. if i EVER had someone treat me like that i would leave the coutesies for a better bottle shop. i've had places where the beer guy was gone and i was talking over the top of the wine guy's head, but they are always cordial.

i guess this is why we're boycotting.

 

When you asked him for the good stuff in the back did you follow that up with a nudge nudge wink wink?

 

What's so limiting about a local product that is potentially barrel aged, non-sour or non-belgian?

 

So sorry to hear about that experience.

I have never been, but have been hearing many similar experiences from local beer-geek friends about that place. (I have had similar experiences at Coaltrain W&L in Colorado Springs. Can't seem to buy a relationship there!) In the end, they do get some good allocations (i've been reading) and must have some favorite regular customers, but they are handling their overall craft beer customer base super poorly. Sooner or later, they are going to find out the repercussions of this (when they stop getting nice allocations from distributors because they can't sell the standard craft faire consistently due to alienating their customer base). Not much consolation to you, but next time hit up Lukas in Park Meadows. Nick and James are both SUPER solid.

 

Yeah, never been there, but this isn't the first time that kind of thing has come up about that place.
I tend to stick with Lukas down south (Davidson's as a back-up), Mile High in the central/west area, Total Beverage up north, and Illiff and Chambers close to home. People swear by Joy, too.
Good people at all of those places.
Not sure if he's still there, but Nick up at LiquorMax used to hook my wife up when she was working in Loveland. She go in looking for something "Belgian" and he'd send her home with gems like Pannepot back when it had 3-4 reviews.

 

Ok is anyone else noticing the beer guy told him "sour beers are barrel aged, they technically get sour from the wood". Sooo the guy is a douche nozzle and completely full of BS? I mean true if a sour beer IS aged in a barrel, then yes there WILL be some bugs and possibly brett in the wood that'll go in the next beer aged in it...but they get sour from bacteria or a sour mash...not from wood.

 

Probably hoarding a case of uncle jacob in the back for himself. I'd be a prick too.

 

That was my thought. My second thought was he could have just directed him to Odell's Footprint.

 

I like how the reviewer below calls it a 'Honey hole'. Lol, I gotta remember that.

 

That beer was so weird. I had tastes from five different bottles and that shit tasted different every time. The first two tastings were great, the last three were progressively worse til the last, then it was good again. It mademe scared to pull the trigger on shenanigans.

 

Yeah, I read the reviews on Footprint and that held me back from investing the money on a bottle. I wanted to make it to Freshcraft today to try it on tap but never made it.

I enjoyed Shenanigans a good deal. I would have liked it even more if the aroma didn't hit me like a wall of rubber, though I do want to try it again to see what that was about; that experience seems to be unique from anyone else.

 

I'm just getting into bretts after falling in love with muscat d'anour. That piques my interests, but I'm gunshy with odell single release now. It sucks. So I picked up brett dream. Anything brett that odell does I'm sure funkwerks does better...

 

Both Shenanigans and Saboteur are good beers. But if you are focusing in on brett presence, yeah, Funkwerks would probably be the better route to take. Odell's usage seems a bit more subtle.

 

Back on topic though, let's go roll this ass hat for his uncle jacobs stash.