New beer pouring into NY

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  1. jrnyc

    jrnyc Grand Pooh-Bah (3,012) Mar 21, 2010 New York
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    I foresee Sweetwater stuff turding it up on the shelves. Decent beers, but with all of the great local beer and other better stuff on shelves, I would never buy this stuff. In Georgia it has the home field advantage, here, not so much. I would go to Atlanta for work, when in a place that didn't have craft, they always had 420 or the IPA, a decent choice when the other choices are BMC, but nothing I would go out of my way for.
     
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  2. BltByKrmn

    BltByKrmn Maven (1,349) Jan 16, 2013 New York

    Completely agree here.
     
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  3. zid

    zid Grand Pooh-Bah (3,132) Feb 15, 2010 New York
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    I was a little surprised to see Sweetwater here because I too saw it as having a strong regional base. Despite that, it could certainly find success over here... or perhaps not.
     
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  4. taestee

    taestee Initiate (0) Dec 12, 2012 New York

    Beer geeks like us make up only a small percentage of the beer drinking populace. I can see Sweetwater appealing to the same folks that buy "craft-y" beers that you often see in supermarkets, drugstores, etc.
     
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  5. hyperguy220

    hyperguy220 Initiate (0) Mar 24, 2011 New York

    I agree with oppinions on the IPA and 420, though I had the Hop Hash DIPA the other night and it was pretty solid. I would grab some bottles if they were fresh
     
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  6. jrnyc

    jrnyc Grand Pooh-Bah (3,012) Mar 21, 2010 New York
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    Good point, you could be right. But with the rise in the last couple of years of local breweries like OH, Singlecut, Grimm, Kane, Carton, etc., this would seem to be the least opportune time to enter this market. I rarely buy non-local IPAs off the shelf any more. A couple of years ago, always, now never. I can get them straight from the source now and they are as good or better than anything I can buy off the shelf.
     
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  7. taestee

    taestee Initiate (0) Dec 12, 2012 New York

    Agreed, for my personal drinking, I'm stocking up on local favorites like OH, Singlecut, Grimm. Then again, if I'm going to a party, or over to someone's place, and I had to choose from a Duane Reade, I'd definitely consider Sweetwater. I have a soft spot for them particularly because I spent 7+ years in Atlanta.
     
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  8. zid

    zid Grand Pooh-Bah (3,132) Feb 15, 2010 New York
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    I think you are proving @taestee 's point though. Those breweries that you are talking about are higher on the geek spectrum. As of yesterday, I can go into a supermarket and buy a sixer of Sweeterwater. I can't do that for any of the breweries you mentioned. Everything isn't very cut and dry though. As far as the notion that Sweetwater appeals to a "craft-y" market rather than "beer geeks like us," the 90 rating of their standard IPA here says otherwise.
     
    #28 zid, Oct 2, 2015
  9. atlhilbo

    atlhilbo Initiate (0) Sep 25, 2013 Illinois

    Their IPA is a fine beer and if I knew it was fresh, I would have no issues buying it off the shelves up here. Same thing with hop hash. SW doesn't date their bottles tho which always turned me off from buying it when I lived in GA and inevitably will do the same thing here.
     
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  10. zid

    zid Grand Pooh-Bah (3,132) Feb 15, 2010 New York
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    It's especially annoying when a beer is new to a market and undated. It might not yet have an audience and the stock can just sit. Personally, having nothing to do with their dating, I'm not drawn to trying their beer at the moment.
     
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  11. guinness77

    guinness77 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,554) Jan 6, 2014 New York
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    They do have a "best by" date though on the label and I'm pretty sure it's 6 months old. I brought back 2 bottles from Virginia, they weren't that fresh but they were still pretty tasty, IMO. Just to add...like others have said, nothing that's gonna blow your mind, just...solid.
     
    #31 guinness77, Oct 2, 2015
  12. Reck

    Reck Devotee (305) Apr 22, 2008 New Jersey

    Yes, they do bottle date with a best by date. The Fresh Beer Only website indicates a 3 month shelf life. I really enjoy their IPA on draft, but even the fresh bottles ive had dont stack up to the draft version, imo.
     
    #32 Reck, Oct 2, 2015
  13. Kanger

    Kanger Initiate (0) Sep 3, 2013 New York

    I just went to Sugarburg tonight and I didn't realize they had a Sweetwater event going on. I just had the Hop Hash, 420 Pale, and the Hash Brown. All decent beers.
     
    #33 Kanger, Oct 3, 2015
  14. DrRambis

    DrRambis Initiate (0) Jan 10, 2014 New Jersey

    Does Kent Falls bottle? I've only seen draft offerings and I've been blown away by a lot of their offerings. Coffee Maker, Alternate Side, Table Beer, Waymaker, Shower Beer. Killing the brett game!
     
    #34 DrRambis, Oct 4, 2015
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