What will be your Bourbon County Stout replacement?

I did a side by side a couple weeks ago and agree, more or less. Uncle Jacobs was definitely sweeter and boozier, with booze being distinct from bourbon. Bourbon flavors themselves were stronger in BCBS. Love 'em both.

 

Nothing. I've yet to meet a BA stout that marries bourbon so well with a chocolate heavy stout. If BCBS quality really does slip I will be a sad panda, but after having numerous 2012's I'd say we're safe for another year.

 

Wow yeah, it just sucks that GI has been able to ramp up production and now I can get all the great tasting BCS I want. $&#@ you AB InBev!

 

Batch 1 King Henry is my regular night cap, so when batch 2 comes out that will take it's place.

 

Y'all are nuts if you think AB is going to screw with GI's recipes and start cheaping out on quality. They know they've got a good thing going. Goose Island is basically becoming AB's 'Acura' brand while Budweiser is their 'Honda'. Same company, completely different in terms of quality, price, and market.

I don't think they're suddenly going to start barrel-aging adjunct lager and continue charging $20 a 4-pack for it. That would kill GI and their prescence in the craft market at the same time. They bought GI for the name and quality behind it because people are NEVER going to buy a premium craft version of Budweiser... completely different market. That would be akin to Wonder Bread putting out an Artisan series of Pumpernickel and freshly-baked Rye.

 

$14 bomber vs. $20-25 12 oz. 4-pack. I'll take the latter any day, especially if we are talking high ABV beers like Bourbon County and Parabola. I've been saying it for months: we need more big beers in 12 oz. bottles.

Also, you need a ride tomorrow?

 

I will be replacing it with nothing as soon long as it doesn't go south in quality. I love that beer

 

Haha ABInBev once was a tiny company making beers you would call craft also.
They succeeded because people like their beers.

Actually you can't make the case that ABInBev had any effect whatever on craft beer growth. And in fact, given craft beer's incredible growth, one could even just as easily try to make the point that the backlash against ABI's tactics has helped the craft movement.

So go ahead and make your line in the sand, and pretend that businesses, with the exception of ABI, aren't out to make a profit and put their beer into bars and on shelves and keep their competition's off the shelf. Pretend that investors are bad and that decisions made to increase profits are bad. When ABI breaks laws I will be for punishing them.

When ABI fucks up Goose Island I will move on to a beer I like better. I don't fool myself with holier than thou crap, which, by the way, is the craft beer marketing angle you and all like you have fallen for hook line and sinker, just like BMC idiots by cheerleaders on TV ads.

 

Hey......wait a minute. You mean those cheerleaders DON'T have anything to do with making the beer or delivering it to the store? Screw that then. I'll start drinking Miller High Life. At least they actually use a real delivery guy in their ads! I'ma be living the high life, baby!

 

What does GI brew in house now? Or is the brewery empty and all work has been farmed out to AB facilities?

(honest question, as I thought their big specialty beers are remaining in house while their daily beers like Honkers were farmed out)

 

They are not doing this for us it's for the money. While they obviously make more money on macro. They are seeing far higher percentage profit on bcbs and it's variants than on anything else. Believe me there costs to produce it are probably 1/2 of goose islands but there as no price drop. Big business is not in business to do favors for consumers

 

312, Nut Brown and I think Honkers have all been outsourced to different facilities. Now they have the capacity to brew more experimental beers and make more of their existing specialty beers.

 

Just curious - do you boycott all manner of consumer goods because of their ownership (i.e. places that ship American jobs overseas or treat their employees poorly), or do you only do it when buying beer?

 

Ok, that's the way I understood it as well. So what Tamarack22 said is inaccurate.

 

Easy question to answer. Although I think BCBS was as good this year as it has been in the past, if it ever goes away I'll switch right to Peche Mortel. Fairly easy to get, albeit a bit expensive, but excellent.

 

bcs is still made in chicago by the same brewers as before sooooo.....

 

All I know is the evil AB-INBEV employs a lot of people where I live, and BCBS quality has not yet suffered under them. All breweries have to make money, whether they be large or small

 

Congratulations on the 1000th "What happens when Goose eats the d..." thread!

 

who cares? this is a deflection from the topic to some idiotic and irrelevant conversation about whether or not 1 person (who no one gives a shit about) is a hypocrite. asking this question is far dumber than any answer you could possibly receive.

 

Goose products and BCBS have increased in quality since AB took over. I have gotten plenty of some of the tastiest BCBS ever, the option of actually getting Madame Rose, Lolita, and Juliet from the shelf, anxiously awaiting the return of Nightstalker and Big John, enjoying a very highly rated Cherry Rye, and enjoying countless one-offs and specialties from the Fulton brewery... so, um, OP does not compute.