Wolves & People

I hear ya - I'm a 'reserve folk', by the way.

 

I used to think this too, but now I just end up using facebook more for breweries and it works well. I just have a small set of breweries (degarde, holy mountain, etc) that I have notifications turned on for so that I don't need to be checking my feed. It's by far the one avenue where a brewery can cover most of their patrons, so it should be expected for facebook to trump email or anything else now. It's also less formal than email so when Holy Mountain taps a new beer they usually post and that's something I'm interested in.

I do agree in the sense that we payed money up front that we should get some more formal email updates, but for everything else facebook is king.

 

I've never installed FB on my phone, and have no plans to. So, it's kind of random what I see on my feed. At the same time, I'm not the type that has to be tied to his phone. If I were to be following along in real time I probably wouldn't leave one place, just because another place tapped a certain keg. To my eyes, a business' own website is where all the important info and announcements should be. FB, twatter, etc, should be secondary avenues.

 

It'll be Wakefield all over again when W&P beer is on tap at an event across the country (i.e. the de Garde quarterly party last Saturday) before their society members see a release.

 

I agree that having info on your website would be great but fact is the amount of people who will check websites for updates is negligible and the amount following on facebook is pretty large. You could even have facebook email you the updates if you want!

 

Just checked their FB page, and most recent update was from 2-1/2 weeks ago. Scrolled through the posts, and lots of stuff about CBC. Any word on how things are coming along?

 

Still waiting on federal approvals I believe. I imagine things will pick up fairly quickly once that happens.

 

From their website.

"We hope to be licensed and brewing in our facility this June."

 

You guys should host an open house for the cellar society. Show us around share you're plans for the future. We'll bring the beers do a little bottle share? Nothing against the law in you guys sharing your "homebrew" right?

I'm sure its not as simple as that, lol. But damnit I can't wait to come check out this badass farmhouse brewery!!!!

 

I second that!

 

Don't know what the rules are in OR, but a local nano got a bit of heat from LCB last year for doing exactly that. Another got in trouble for pouring beer at a fest before they had license approval. They thought that "giving beer away" was OK. They learned different.

 

The Lebrewatory got busted during the CBC. The OLCC thought they were selling beer - which they were not licensed for yet. But they were able to prove that they were giving it away and the charges were dropped.

 

More importantly, how does he taste? Hmm that sounds weird...
I second a bottle share. Would be pretty cool, and make your initial supporters feel loved.

 

Cart before the horse comes to mind when we are talking about collaborations before ever releasing a beer.

 

Lots of breweries do collaborations before they brew anything on their own system. If all their waiting on is permits and such, getting their name out there via collaborations is a good use of time.

 

I know that they were working on something with The Commons last year (which they even mention in their bio at the beginning of this very post)... But what, I have no idea.

I do know that they are still working on (or, is it 'with'?) 'Sebastian' - their yeast strain... So, who knows when they'll actually have anything...

 

For anyone else out there who has been waiting...