Went to westbrook today for a haul of key lime pie gose. Had a Mexican cupcake. A low abv "session" mexican cake. It was surprisingly really good tons of flavor and mouthfeel for 4.2% Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum mobile app
10am DuClaw Funk and some skunkberry for a wake and bake. Happy puppies and swimming. Excellent Saturday. Shhhhhhh!
Been drinking a lot of Tired Hands brewing beers lately. They are so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking some up.
Sorry brochacho, I do not support beer trading and the commodification of beer. I stand in line, and drink what I purchase.
I stood in line for hours for Mexican cake and tons of other westbrook stuff love trading for stuff I can't stand in line for 800 miles away. But no worries I feel ya some people don't even drink it and just trade away the entire allocation. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Lately I've been on a leinenkegal summer Shandy kick in a can...must be in a can accompanied with some fresh bubble hash...in the shade Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G935A using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Beer trading IS the reason you stood in line for hours. I do not mean you personally were trading away your beer. But the commodification of beer is the reason for lines. Every release is inundated with people and their mules, purchasing the max allotment and gaming the system for more than that so they can trade. People are afraid to miss out, either due to traders, or because they are traders, so they get in line hours early. I've watched this evolve over the past 15 years to the point where it's ridiculous now. I do not support it one bit.
The whole entire beer scene is a victim to this. Case in point, a few breweries I love I can't even stand to go to releases anymore. One great example is Other Half in Brooklyn. When I started going there two years ago, you could go on a release day any time before noon, maybe wait 15 minutes to a half hour and buy up to a case of beer. It steadily got to the point where the traders made it so you needed to show up a half hour to 45 minutes before opening. But still it wasn't too bad. Then they did a collaboration with Trillium last November. That day I arrived an hour early, and stood for 4 hours while the limits steadily decreased. Now almost every release winds up being like that, limits are low, lines are long. People even hire task rabbits to stand for them. It's ludicrous. One of the breweries in my home state, Carton, frowns on the line thing. So if people attempt to line up, they will come out and disperse the line. But this leads to a different sort of weirdness where people mill around the town in close proximity or in a parking lot near by and then run for it when they open. This is all due to trading. I'm not a super young guy. Hit the big Four-O a year ago. I've been into beer for a long while and can remember when none of this went on. It's sad to see the same selfish practices from the wine and bourbon worlds make their way into beer over the past few years. It used to be the people's drink. Now, just another commodity for people to trade, resell, take photos of for their internet humble brags, etc... Sorry for the wall of text, but that is really why I do not support the trading scene at all.
I understand. That does put it into perspective a bit for sure. Still I can't resist getting to try some of these beers. Living in sc we are deprived. Westbrook is awesome. And I managed to get 12 bottles only traded 4 saving the rest for foot ball season. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Ithaca flower powers at the moment while floating in the pool. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G935A using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Not beer but I'm drinking this gnarly stuff with Sprite lol. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Went to Westbrook and had an amazing IPA on draft. And picked up so mojito gose. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum mobile app