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Anchor Brewing Company ends national distribution, kills Christmas Ale

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Re: Anchor Brewing Company ends national distribution, kills Christmas Ale

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Post by girvo »

lmm wrote: post #186
girvo wrote: post #36

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> It’s also nice and strong - 9% iirc As all good stouts should be, in my humble opinion! My all time favourite beer is the BrewDog, Nogne and Mikkeller collaboration stout: the Black Tokyo Horizon. It's 17.2%!

Just a waste IMO. Yes, sometimes I want a strong beer, but sometimes I want to spend an afternoon drinking and chatting with a friend. But I still want something that tastes good in that case!

Hardly a waste; I never do the “spend all afternoon drinking” thing these days, and if I really want to, well these strong stouts are excellent to sip over a fairly long period of time because they taste great slightly warmed up

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Post by kaycebasques »

dilap wrote: post #56

They did an ungodly-bad rebrand and suddenly just looked like every other beer.

I took the Christmas Ale tour last year. Little did I know it may be the last! The tour guide made a verrrrrrry interesting and unexpected comment about the rebrand. He said that it was part of the sale contract. I.e. the old owner put it in the contract that they had to rebrand. I am 90% sure I heard that correctly and am not making it up, because it was so strange and unexpected on my ears.

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Post by phillc73 »

brogrammernot wrote: post #177
phillc73 wrote: post #159

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I think Cascade Brewing Co. is already owned by Asahi. I didn’t know they did a sour beer though!

I think you’re getting your breweries mixed up. Cascade only makes sours and they are owned by a local group in Portland with the founder still heavily involved.

Yes. I was referring to Australia’s oldest operating brewery[1].

[1] https://www.cascadebreweryco.com.au/

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Post by pdntspa »

monocasa wrote: post #164
pdntspa wrote: post #143

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I don't really believe in this whole stupid 'boycott them because they don't align with my values' bullshit, people should be free to express their political opinions however they see fit

> people should be free to express their political opinions however they see fit But that doesn't apply to boycotts?

It does. Not sure what that has to do with anything though.

Re: Anchor Brewing Company ends national distribution, kills Christmas Ale

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Post by MAGZine »

gunshai wrote: post #169

I just left a job at Deschutes Brewery. Craft Beer is in a real bad spot atm.

i really liked 2013 deschutes. i actually still think their older beers are good. mirror pond is still, imo, the quintessential pale ale. i miss chainbreaker. and the red chair was always a nice seasonal treat.

i can't blame them for trying to chase trends, but my impression is their distribution was too large to be able to capitalize on anything groundbreaking.

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Post by pdntspa »

brewdad wrote: post #156
pdntspa wrote: post #143

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I don't really believe in this whole stupid 'boycott them because they don't align with my values' bullshit, people should be free to express their political opinions however they see fit

And I can choose not to give my money to someone who will use it to fund politicians who want to actively harm members of my family. Ain’t capitalism grand?

As someone targetted by the GOP's bullshit, I still don't care.

Half-assed personal boycotts don't present the kind of numbers needed to effect change.

Trump and his cohorts getting their asses locked up does. Burning everything to the ground that belongs to neonazis does. The BLM protests did far more damage and effected far more change than the combined power of everyone who boycotts Chik-Fil-A, Hobby Lobby, or Yuengling.

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Post by phillc73 »

kodt wrote: post #121
xarope wrote: post #109

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17.2%?!? That led me down the rabbit hole to find out beers with very high alcohol content. Apparently Brewmeister Snake Venom, at ABV 67.5%, is the highest.

Yes those super high ones are usually freeze concentrated (partially frozen, then ice is removed which removes water, what is left is stronger) multiple times to reach such high ABVs. The highest you will see actually fermented is usually around 18-20%, but there are specialty yeasts that can get up to 25%. Then you can get even higher with extended aging in spirit barrels where some ABV is picked up by absorbing res…

Brewing high ABV beers is actually quite the challenge, especially once it gets above about 10%.

The grain to strike water ratio changes so much that lautering often gets “stuck” due to the thick consistency of the grain bed.

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Post by pdntspa »

vrosas wrote: post #88
pdntspa wrote: post #82

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> Such is progress - there is no more regional taste, only trend Can you tell that to Yuengling, I would really like to partake in their beer without having to fly to Philly

I stopped drinking Yuengling when they got cozy with Trump in 2016. So many other superior breweries in Philly - Yards, Victory, Attic just to name a few.

Also, which of these have the most chance of being sold in California?
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