Sierra Nevada BFD (Beer for Drinking) Question

Yup, that one year old beer will not have an optimum taste/flavor.

I just visited the SN website and I too noted the message that this beer is no longer available. Maybe @SierraTerence could educate us on when this brand went obsolete?

Cheers!

 

I would not worry about it and drink it, flavors may be off a little. I cannot imagine you dropped more than 2 bucks on it so no big loss.
Cheers
The store, probably like most, has loads of out of date beer, especially gas stations where they get a lot of one and done customers so a lot won't come back anyway.
Check your dates going forward

 

Samual Adams ensures only fresh stuff is sold? That’s news to me. I would say Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada try their best to get fresh beer to the market. However, I doubt gas stations pay attention to their inventory and make sure their beer is fresh. The beer have sat there for a year or they could get old stock from the distributor.

Sad to hear BFD is no longer being brewed. I thought it was a pretty good easy drinking blind with a nice touch of hops. Either way a year old BFD won’t be too bad but the flavor will be impacted negatively.

 

Unfortunately, once a beer hits the shelves in most stores it stays there until sold regardless how much we complain about it on thisn site.

The only rare beers are....... none, come to think about it.

 

It might still be in the market, it was mainly designed for convenience store sales in 19.2 oz. cans and didn't preform the way we hoped. It will be replaced with 19.2 fl. oz. Hop Bullet and Hazy Little Thing.

Last packaging of BFD was 2/1/2019

 

That is a shame. I really liked the BFD. At first I thought it was a little odd coming from Sierra Nevada, but I liked it a lot. I never put two and two together, but yeah, the 19.2 oz. can kind of turned me off; just not my thing.

 

Jim, I had the same thought about BFD coming from Sierra Nevada. I first tasted this beer at a Sierra Nevada sponsored beer festival in Philly and I drank it as I chatted with Bill Manley (he worked for SN at that time). It was a pleasant drinking beer but it was not a beer I would have associated with Sierra Nevada (at that time). SN is now making a year-round beer of Sierraveza (an "easy-drinking lager") so I suppose brands are 'expanding' at Sierra Nevada?

Cheers!

P.S. Maybe BFD was a competitor for the consumers interested in Sierraveza?

 

Interestingly enough, or not, my second thought was that a lot of craft brewers are now producing golden ales and lagers, so why not Sierra Nevada? Doing so in years past might have seemed 'turncoat' to the revolution, but it seems acceptable now, and Sierraveza fits right in with that as well.

Myself, I don't care if craft breweries produce Pilsners and what not. I think they should. If you can make it as good as they do in other parts of the world why not? Of course I've always supported Bud, Miller, and Coors as well so what do I know?

Just to note, I liked BFD much better than Sierraveza.

 

I posted a similar sentiment in the Paste Magazine Lager tasting thread:

“It would seem that the American craft beer movement has come full circle? Paste evaluated 102 brands of “boring old lager”.”

https://www.beeradvocate.com/commun...-blind-tasted-and-ranked.613140/#post-6482254

Cheers!

P.S. A few days ago I purchased a 6-pack of a new beer from Love City Brewing: Deep Cut Pilsner. The wealth of riches we have of locally brewed Pilsners just keeps getting better and better. Let the good times roll.

 

This is not just for Jack, so everyone else please chime in.

Firstly, yes, props to Love City, and also to Double Nickel in NJ for bringing some more brilliant Pilsners on board. I'm sure I don't have to name anyone else, but yes, we are blessed with quality lagers; AND, I believe 100% that Philadelphia was the birthplace of lagers in the new world! Come at me Saint Louis or whomever thinks differently!

So, not to hijack this thread, but I think it's pretty much come to it's collusion anyway, why has the east coast seemingly embraced "boring old lager" from day one yet the rest of the country didn't?

There was Anchor and then New Albion, followed by Sierra Nevada... who was the first modern craft brewery on the east coast? Paging @jesskidden.

My first craft brewed lager was probably from Stoudt's, and if not, the contract brewed Dock Street Bohemian Pilsner. But Stoudt's also brewed an ESB and several Belgian styles. I've always enjoyed lagers along with everything else... is it just me?

 

About three months ago, I purchased a can of the same old beer. Turns out, it tasted okay, not great. But for a Friday evening after work, it did the job.

 

Wm Newman in Albany (ale-centric, like its home town).

Contract-brewed lager on the east coast? Might go to New Amsterdam Amber Beer, circa Fall 1982 - originally brewed at F. X. Matt, later opened their own short-lived NYC brewery.

 

Jim, my first craft brewed lager (to the best of my memory) was Stoudt's Gold sometime in the later 1980's.

For New York City (and nearby areas) it appears that there was a 'war' between Manhattan and New Amsterdam in the 80's; those beers were both contract brewed:

"Both Manhattan and New Amsterdam contract brewed. That is, they paid other, larger breweries to make their recipes, though each also brewed in-house. In Manhattan’s case, it was with the Lion Brewery in Wilkes-Barre, PA. For New Amsterdam, it was with the F.X. Matt Brewing Co. in Utica, NY."

http://allaboutbeer.com/new-york-city-beer-war-mid-1980s/

Cheers!

 

Maybe it’s me but Hop Bullet in 19oz cans seems a bit overboard. I’ll pass.

I would think Sierraveza and pale ale would do well and dare I say Keller would be a purchase for me in that size.

Enjoy

 

Manhattan, correct me if I'm wrong, gave us Garrett Oliver who then also produced a lager as the flagship beer at Brooklyn Brewing Co.

 

Yeah, but New Amsterdam Amber Ale was contract-brewed before they had a brewery in NYC and first released in October, 1982.

Manhattan Gold Lager, their contract-brewed lager and first bottled beer, was wasn't released until nearly five years later, after Manhattan had been brewing in NY.

One of my favorites of the era, too.


By '87, New Amsterdam was being sold in 22 states and the brewery, the Old New York Brewing Co., Inc., was listed as the largest "Micro-Brewery" in the US by the Brewers Digest.

Well, half right (or just worded wrong ). Oliver did work at Manhattan but he didn't join Brooklyn until after Brooklyn Lager was on the market - that beer was created by ex-Ortlieb and Schmidt brewmaster, William Moeller.

 

I had that in my micro brew subscription days many many years ago, long before I joined any beer community. Iirc, it wasn't very fresh..

 

I buy the tall boys of BFD all the time. Great out in the backyard or by the pool

Sad they’d kill it off just before summer....

 

Yeah this really throws me for a loop that these Stove Pipes of High ABV beers are being churned out for convenience store purchases. I know it is a market, but most of these beers are bought by people on their way home from work. 19.2 oz of 8% Hop Bullet is quite a drive home beer. The one that really blows me away is Karbach Rodeo Clown at 9.5%. That is like drinking 3 12oz 5% beers