so tonight at a local natural type grocer..i see two bottles i hadnt seen before Trinity Swing-line and 7 Day Golden. I was kinda interested but put off by the heft price for 12 oz bottles..that were badly waxed ( semi coverage of the cap). is $10 for Swing-line and $7 for the Golden a price you guys pay? I can get a 750 of the Commons stuff for less that $10. Are they worth it?
Yup. Those prices are just about right. And if you buy any of them, be ready for at least a quarter of the bottle to gush out upon opening...
No, it's not. But I have a bias against this brewery, so that may just be my opinion... Hopefully others will chime in...
Absolutely. Day 7 is a Great Beer & Really Nice & Sour. Haven't come across a Gusher bottle of Day 7, but I did have an older 750 ml bottle of TPS Report foam over.
I haven't been impressed with anything I've had by them... In fact I poured out a Damn, It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta!. It was undrinkable. The You Never Even Call Me By My Name was okay... But not all that great. Plus, their labels are ugly as sin. For my money, I'll go with Crooked Stave - also just now getting distro in Oregon.
Trinity has alienated some of the locals here in CO and with all of the great offerings out there, I don't even pay much attention to them anymore. Crooked Stave has pretty much the same price point for generally similar styles, but much better IMO.
I might be thinking of another Trinity beer, but I thought Red Swingline was closer to Batch 60/Progenitor. Hop Savant is more straight funky and minimally sour. I like 'em all.
@Domingo red swing is closer to those, but neither of those beers are regular rotations like red swing is, so I opted to compare hop savant to red swing instead. In my head I lumped them together as "American wild ales".
Hop Savant, Progenitor and Red Swingline are all great beers and all kinda fall under the same general style. It's not Trinity's beers that are the problem to me, it's their general attitude. I hate trying to compare breweries or bashing any breweries, but Red Swingline is probably Trinitys best beer and Hop Savant is probably not even in the top 5 of CS beers.
The irony of mentioning Primitif I mean Progenitor in a Trinity thread. OP, I'd suggest not buying any. Like you mentioned, the prices are ridiculous, and there are so many other breweries you get up there that are worth supporting.
Price-wise they were too expensive. Everyone complained and they lowered their prices. Then they moved from a 750ml format to a 375ml format and jacked the prices right back up to what they were before or even more. Personally I'm not a saison fan which is a good portion of their profile. But I do actually like the Elektrick Cukumbahh, but at $11 a 750ml, not $8 a 375ml. Their Chocolate River was alright, but because of the price, it was a 1 time buy. OK beers, obscene pricing. But they do think a lot of themselves. Google their responses to their placement in recent beer competitions. To paraphrase: "If you don't think our beer is the best, then you don't know beer."
