Overwhelmed by hype

Are you still commercially brewing? If so, where did you end up?

Cheers!

 

Taking a sabbatical. Traveling. Talking to a couple breweries. Not in a rush to work.

 

Enjoy your time off.

Cheers!

 

Much more fun wading through what is a hidden gem and what is crap with the local beer scene than trading for hype monsters. You find out a lot about your local beer scene that way. My tastes have gone away from hype inducing style of beers so they do not even come up on my radar. Now if a brewery can brew an exceptional bock or dunkel weizenbock, I want to hear about it.

 

The few hyped beers I've had were very good. But, I didn't chase them down.
I drink local mostly, because I think fresh beer is good beer.
Eat local.
Drink local
Cheers!

 

Maybe so, but every time I start to think that I just remind myself of many of the experiences wife and I have had at wine tastings at various CA wineries and even at friends and family events. Wine snobs make beer snobs look like amateurs. I still think waaaay more beer people are fun and laid back than wine people, but perhaps that bar is set too low for comparison :-)

 

YEP! The only time I spend what is, in my mind, a stupid amount of money for a beer is when I get a Firestone Walker barrel-aged series beer. The only reason i do it is because it reminds me of a great beer/food pairing dinner hosted on the central coast of CA by a great restaurant and Firestone several years ago. Wife and I had an excellent time and every time we drink one from that barrel aged series it is like reliving the experience of being introduced to those beers.

 

Im sure but I know nothing about wine. I can imagine though because of my time in the restaurant business

 

I actually think wine is a handy benchmark for measuring various aspects about beer. Besides using it as a snob-gage, I find that when I bemoan the "high" price of some beers they do not seem too bad when compared to the cost per ounce of some decent wines. A $30 /750ml bottle of wine = about $11.80 for a 12 oz bottle of beer, or ~$71/6pk of 12 oz bottles

 

Thanks BigIronH, for the post. It acted as a gut check for me.
I traded a handful of times on BA and met some great and generous folks. Then when the trading rules changed I moved to FB. What a mistake that was. I started down the wormhole of the hype beers and tried chasing a couple. What a joke!
People actually ask you to pay them 10$ extra per 4 pack to proxy from a brewery they were already going to... wtf!
Anyway, I appreciate the reality check that came with this thread.

 

Reading this thread and discussing the recent NFL draft made me think that sometimes it’s best to just pick the ‘best available’. If your at a bottle shop with a good mix of styles buy a highly regarded beer in a style that you are not super familiar with. A Weihnstephaner Hefe, Tap 6 Aventius, St. Bernardus Abt 12, or Unibroue La Fin de Monde.

 

over here, Monkish comes to mind. not to mention the spread on their glassware @ secondary is even more hyped & ridiculous.

 

Is this really a thing? All the limited glassware these places put out, does it really get traded or bought for huge price increases?

 

It is a thing. A crazy thing. But a thing.

 

well, i'm not sure what you consider "huge". i've witnessed several pushing $150 a pop. to be clear, Monkish, itself prices them $15 or less ($12 is a pretty common price on most ware i've paid attention to when released).

 

I guess I know people who do the whole show poster thing, I have a few but I've never paid secondary. However I do know people go in early to buy and resell them. Same sort of thing I guess...

Wow! Hey to each their own, when it comes down to it I guess any collectible is the same way. Worth whatever someone will pay for it.

 

it's ok. you can just say it. people are stQQpid.