Russian River hype. When will it end?

pittsburgh is awesome. ohio, not so much

 

So you are upset that during the two weeks out of the year when younger is out, you cannot get a growler fill without waiting in line? Also I was there on Friday night and there was a 20 wait, not quite 2 hours.

 

i dont think you could make the argument that RR>legendary belgian beer, but belgium is also across an ocean. in the meantime...

 

can someone delete his account? this is blasphemy.....

 

I'm confused by this entire thread. I would take some of these overhyped RR brews in Illinois.

 

You're doing a pretty poor job of it.

 

You live 10 minutes away from RR and yet have found something to complain about, get a grip bra!

 

When I started with sours, I had tunnel vision toward RR. But I have expanded out since. There are many places around the US to get great beer. So now that my tunnel vision has been cured; if I was right next to RR I would go inside to buy a beer happily. Meanwhile drinking it and comparing it with others around the nation that I like. I hope to go some time, and I would consider it a mecca vacation for me. So would Cantillon and many others. Enjoy beer

 

When you brew a high quality product(s) as well and as long as they have been doing so, while maintaining their "Hype" with all the other new breweries and beers popping up all throughout the nation...I'd say they're doing something right. Should deserve some respect and a little more credit than you are giving them.

There are other beers and breweries out there right this minute getting more "Hype" than RRBC. Are you singling RRBC out because you once lived there and their success made it harder and more annoying for you to regularly drink their beer?

Comparing Bear Republic to RRBC...to each their own I guess.

 

You're complaining about those prices? During your California vacation did you look at all the other prices on the shelves for DIPAs?

 

Moderators should delete these kinds of posts immediately. All the same "everyone loves this brewery, I don't get it, blah blah blah" EVERYONE ARGUE!

 

Vinnie started brewing Blind Pig in Temecula around the time that Gopher was invented and started brewing at what is now Russian River Brewing just a year after HTTP was officially released. Their beers had been distributed around Bay Area bars and recognized for their excellence for years before anybody had even thought of Yelp and most of us have bottles of "tion" beers older than Reddit.

I think that it is a little misguided to say that Russian River's "hype" is the result of the internet or Yelpers or Reddit or any of the other social networks or peer review sources that may be coming to mind (like this one). The "hype" existed on the street from word of mouth long before these technologies, first around the Bay Area and then through visitors to the old beer bars within reach of the original distribution. All that the internet and all of these sites have done is allow more people to know of RR's existence and to help facilitate a trading network much further reaching than the physical distribution network.

 

Yes. Ruination and Double Jack are cheaper. Pliny isn't that expensive, it's just not a particularly good price.

 

Pliny is $3.99 to $5. And $4.25 a pint for one of the best DIPAs in the world is a bad price?

 

LOL Pittsburgh. I'm from the burgh our beer sucks. Dont cite Church won all kinds of awards. Those are beers they dont even brew they are one offs for the GAFB for the most part.

DFH. Joke. DFH's best beer would not even be in my top 10 for RR best beer.

Russian river makes some of the best beers in the world, Not just talking about 1 beer, talking about a dozen world class beers that are as consistent as any brewery on the planet earth.

 

Doesn't enjoy beer internet hype.

FFF as counter example.

 

If you're not a dick they'll let you go in and get other things to go and roll out. Although, it may be limited to bottles and not growlers...

 

I sympathize with being annoyed by crowds, but the bottom line is that nobody is forcing you to mix with the crowds. If you'd rather enjoy a beer at Bear Republic where it's maybe less crowded, then good for you. But why do you care if other people don't feel the same way?

You say that Russian River is not phenomenal. Many people disagree. I disagree. But I don't care that you don't like it. Why do you care that I do? I can't think of one way that you're possibly being hurt by the fact that a lot of people really love a brewery that you only like.

 

One less person to drink Russian River beers?


Yeah I'm OK with that

 

And that ladies and Gentlemen was just a quick exercise on how to turn an entire community against you! thanks to all who participated.