I didn't vote because there's no option for "Sky is the limit" My first stovepipes were BA Ten Fidy, so I'm not at all familiar with the direction of this conversation.
This thread hints that breweries are tending to use these stovepipes as an additional option to the regular packaging for big beers. I don't understand their logic, and it is opposite the logic that BA members use for wanting smaller bottles/cans. Who's right?
I was just replying to your statement concerning availability of stovepipes in the state if New Mexico. Cheers!
The logic is pretty obvious. The brewer, distributor, and retailer will go with it if it sells and makes a profit. Rational thought isn't a big factor.
Even if I had good reason to visit Albuquerque, I wouldn't waste my time checking out convenience stores for stovepipe IPAs.
If it was something I really wanted to try and a stovepipe was the only format available, I'd be inclined to buy it if the price was right, drink what I wanted of it, and dump the rest. Of course, I have been known to polish off a bomber of high-octane imperial pastry stout now and then (looking at you, Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break Natale - Pretty Please With A Cherry On Top). Sometimes you just have to press on. What?! I thought "Faastah's" was Australian for "beeah"! Back in the early 80's (give or take) our church had an Aussie vicar. One time he hosted a party for our young adults group. He showed us some beautiful slides of Australia, then surprised us with Foster's served from "oil cans." I thought it was pretty exotic at the time. (insert gratuitous Paul Simon "Kodachrome" video) @JackHorzempa
BA is always right. #SevenOunceBrownGlassBottles-It'sTime You never know when you might want to grab something to drink in the car on your way back to the hotel.
For me, it depends on the beer. You won't see me throwing down a 24 oz Colt 45 HG, but I will enjoy a full can of 11% Kasteel Donker on occasion...poured a couple of times into the appropriate glassware of course and sipped on for a couple of hours.
I think it's the company you keep. A few summers ago, we stopped at DFH on vacation, and had never seen 90-minute stovepipes before. The few friends we told about this back home were also intrigued, so we brought home 3-4 cases of them. On the flip side, I avoid 750s like they carry plague these days because there are so few shares to take them to. The only bombers we have come from HOMES, Central Waters, or Toppling Goliath.
They may have effectively replaced the 40 oz. of malt liquor. $3 for a 19.2 oz. can of 9% beer is a cheap way to catch a buzz.
Perhaps you are right. And 1-2 cans of those high ABV IPAs won’t poison you nearly as bad as Malt Liquor, 4 Locos or MD 20/20. So probably a little healthier ingredients to your system (maybe?)
Fosters has largely become a meme in Australia, recalling the glory years of the early- to mid-1980s, when Paul Hogan and Men at Work exported a non-stop stream of Aussie culture to the US and the world. I check in all my beers on Untappd, and over ten years on the app, I've checked in Fosters once. Cheers!
As far as I can tell, typical Australian themed pubs in Europe will sell damn Foster. Unless I’m mistaken, Coopers from Adelaide is likely the brewery which exports well abroad. Those are good, but again Australian craft are difficult to grab around here. @AzfromOz I received this several years ago from a good friend over in Cairns:
On a couple of rare occasions I have had a 9% “stovepipe”, but it’s definitely not a format that interests me on a regular basis. Nowadays* I’m much more about the 12oz single package, can or bottle. And I much prefer lower strength beer brands: Easier to finish a lower alcohol beer before / after work, less worry about having to re-seal a rare “whale” of an IPA, etc. Overall I think the format is probably not long for the world (unless your world involves Craft Beer at gas stations, BevMo, or Total Wine). Most of the mom and pops that I visit regularly have all but the stovepipe in favor of splitting up four packs of 16oz for mix and match. And to be honest, 90 Minute IPA in a stovepipe didn’t hit me as viscerally as my first 750 of 90 Minute back in 2003. *You’ve heard of DINKs, well, what about SINKs? It’s just me and my lonesome, here (my cats don’t count), and all of my adult drinking buddies are busy with kids and grandkids, so I rarely have an opportunity to split a can of this size, or any larger size bottle for that matter.
That's a nice care packet, although those Tinnies beers are just supermarket macro brand swill (and I'm not a fan of Cherry Ripe...)! Coopers is Australia's oldest independent brewery. I'm not sure how big they are in the export game, but they are ubiquitous in Oz. As for Aussie-themed pubs, I 100% get why they would stock Fosters, as it's the quintessential Aussie beer in non-Aussie minds, but to me it's akin to selling Bud everywhere and marketing it as the totality of American beer. It just ain't true! Cheers!
I would buy any ABV if u wanted the beer and the cost was right. I can split the beer or drink it over a few hours after work one night if it was a High ABV. I buy them from time to time but the price keeps inching up. At one time I could get Sip for $3-4 a can vs a 4x16 price. It’s close to $5 now, still not terrible. Most beer I see in 19.2 is also available in other formats. I always look but don’t buy often. Last one was Double Jai Alai. I like the base better. Enjoy
