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yeah, that ain't legal unless they did HELLA paperwork in the last few days, which i'm kind of doubting. within the state is fine, though. got poo poo boxed up for my winners, although only one was ready when UPS came by. if i'm able to keep working through this... thing... i'll hook the other few people up, too, but i can only pay for so much shipping right now.
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Maryland suspended all their alcohol laws. All my locals are doing online ordering for beer and alcohol to go. Some of them are even doing delivery. And a bunch of bars are doing premixed bottled cocktails. It’s a wild time.
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Sirotan posted:Link plz https://www.facebook.com/AngryChairBrewing/photos/a.484769218229688/2946863458686906/?type=3&theater
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atothesquiz posted:Social Distancing: Night 1 Honestly? Negronis
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Spuckuk posted:Honestly? This is a great great call.
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The CA breweries have jumped into shipping quickly. Ended up ordering a mixed case from Cellarmaker and some cans from Humble Sea, and Russian River just announced they'll ship as well so I grabbed a mix 12 with Pliny and Blind Pig. I really hope the shipping and local pickup options are enough to keep breweries running through this all.
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If any CA residents want to order me some Pliny and Blind Pig I’ll send you some good Ohio beer. Nowhere in Particular, Masthead, North High. Or I have lots of 5 year old barleywines I posted in the beer exchange thread.
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California is on the shut down so now i cant get my beer anyway!! Boo!
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Zam posted:The CA breweries have jumped into shipping quickly. Ended up ordering a mixed case from Cellarmaker and some cans from Humble Sea, and Russian River just announced they'll ship as well so I grabbed a mix 12 with Pliny and Blind Pig. Yeah I’m in the sac area and a ton have started shipping, or same-day delivery locally. It rules. Plus taprooms are trying to offload 5 gal kegs. I just picked up Interpreter hazy DIPA keg by Ruse in Portland and it is awesome. They’ve got no limits on any Russian River, but I’m not really into those. The Sac area has so many breweries that make WC IPAs that are just as good as those and aren’t subject to ”limited” supply.
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I'm kinda tempted to try to get some angry chair togo stuff this weekend
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Spuckuk posted:Honestly? my man funkybottoms posted:yeah, that ain't legal unless they did HELLA paperwork in the last few days, which i'm kind of doubting. within the state is fine, though. if it'll help spread the wealth, I'm still in a place where I can throw a few $ to help with shipping
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Hauki posted:if it'll help spread the wealth, I'm still in a place where I can throw a few $ to help with shipping nah, it's all good, just decided it would be wise to use that money on an extra forty pound bag of dog food in case poo poo really goes sideways here. our governor has decided not to enact additional restrictions for the time being and the owner of the brewery is shooting for all of us to get at least thirty hours next week, so my anxiety has abated just a little bit... also, Aslin is taking online orders and delivering them "inside the Richmond beltway" tomorrow. first, what the gently caress is the "Richmond beltway"? nobody says that. second, gently caress off, carpetbaggers; we've got enough breweries scrambling to keep people without your bullshit.
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...and first thing i learn at work today- before i even get inside- is that we've let go of the majority of the staff (sales, front of house, and one production person), are taking slight pay cuts, and will just plug away for as long as possible. good thing i pulled from my tiny lorazepam stash this morning.
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funkybottoms posted:...and first thing i learn at work today- before i even get inside- is that we've let go of the majority of the staff (sales, front of house, and one production person), are taking slight pay cuts, and will just plug away for as long as possible. Sorry, dude. This poo poo is so hosed.
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funkybottoms posted:...and first thing i learn at work today- before i even get inside- is that we've let go of the majority of the staff (sales, front of house, and one production person), are taking slight pay cuts, and will just plug away for as long as possible. I'm sorry.  Is there anything folks can do to support you guys? Other than "buy beer" which we're already on.
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Quorum posted:I'm sorry. much appreciated, but, no, justifying our existence everything we need. we can limp along with a skeleton crew at our current rate until mid-May, but that's due in large part to a bunch of my friends losing their jobs today. lucky me; i get to see all but the last two executions.
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Yea shits hosed for most breweries in Asheville. A lot of them are doing to go sales but it's a fraction of the sales they'd normally do. I'm lucky to work at a brewery that owns our building and most of our sales are in grocery stores which are doing gangbusters right now. We've slowed down production but they're keeping the taproom staff on and having them work on various projects around the brewery for now.
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funkybottoms posted:much appreciated, but, no, justifying our existence everything we need. we can limp along with a skeleton crew at our current rate until mid-May, but that's due in large part to a bunch of my friends losing their jobs today. loving terrible. Sorry to hear all that.
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funkybottoms posted:...and first thing i learn at work today- before i even get inside- is that we've let go of the majority of the staff (sales, front of house, and one production person), are taking slight pay cuts, and will just plug away for as long as possible. poo poo dude. I hope everything will be alright for you guys.
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thanks, guys. i know i'm in a better place than a lot of folks, but i've been with this brewery since it was a Sabco in a garage with a half-assed outline of a business plan, so this is some heartbreaking poo poo to witness.Josh Wow posted:Yea shits hosed for most breweries in Asheville. A lot of them are doing to go sales but it's a fraction of the sales they'd normally do. I'm lucky to work at a brewery that owns our building and most of our sales are in grocery stores which are doing gangbusters right now. We've slowed down production but they're keeping the taproom staff on and having them work on various projects around the brewery for now. just coming out of the slow time and this hitting right when spring seasonals are coming out and the weather is getting nice is a fantastic double-whammy. we're lucky in that we sell a lot of package through grocery and convenience stores, but the curbside/delivery stuff is gonna be spread pretty thin between the taproom manager and one or two servers. i'd ask for some Black Watch, but lord knows we already have way too much dark stuff that's going to be even more difficult to sell whenever people are allowed to gather again.
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https://twitter.com/hopnotes/status/1241024710646927360?s=21 For the Illinois folks.
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Compusaurus posted:https://twitter.com/hopnotes/status/1241024710646927360?s=21 They're cancelling Craft Beer Week? WHERE WILL I GET *checks "events"* $1 OFF DRAFTS ON A RANDOM WEDNESDAY AT SOME lovely LOCAL BAR!? I don't live close enough to a place that will do deliveries so I guess I'm just gonna have to drink what I have and then dip into this lambic stash...
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Texas is petitioning for delivery and shipping  Stay safe yall https://twitter.com/MikeJudge/status/1241070374541881344
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Local pub is now offering 2 for 1 on all entrees and offering bottled beer to go. Free roll of TP with purchases over $50 too :\
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We (edit: Union Craft Brewing in Baltimore) have been coming up with ideas to support the team through all this and we've started selling beer bonds with 100% of the proceeds going directly to the taproom staff. If you buy some and PM me I'll give you a super exclusive tour and let you touch a barrel and/or give you samples of warm fermenting beer straight from the tank or whatever. Put something like "bring back Sour Deezus" in the comments at check out because I really want to brew that again. Instagram post about it here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9920dKJq8f/ internet celebrity fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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internet celebrity posted:We've been coming up with ideas to support the team through all this and we've started selling beer bonds with 100% of the proceeds going directly to the taproom staff. If you buy some and PM me I'll give you a super exclusive tour and let you touch a barrel and/or give you samples of warm fermenting beer straight from the tank or whatever. Put something like "bring back Sour Deezus" in the comments at check out because I really want to brew that again. This is a good idea. Purchased 6. Future me will be happy to have those beers.
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internet celebrity posted:We (edit: Union Craft Brewing in Baltimore) have been coming up with ideas to support the team through all this and we've started selling beer bonds with 100% of the proceeds going directly to the taproom staff. If you buy some and PM me I'll give you a super exclusive tour and let you touch a barrel and/or give you samples of warm fermenting beer straight from the tank or whatever. Put something like "bring back Sour Deezus" in the comments at check out because I really want to brew that again. sell those dope double-wide rolling papers
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funkybottoms posted:much appreciated, but, no, justifying our existence everything we need. we can limp along with a skeleton crew at our current rate until mid-May, but that's due in large part to a bunch of my friends losing their jobs today. That blows. I'm really hoping that things "settle" down enough where businesses are able to get back on track by then. internet celebrity posted:We (edit: Union Craft Brewing in Baltimore) have been coming up with ideas to support the team through all this and we've started selling beer bonds with 100% of the proceeds going directly to the taproom staff. If you buy some and PM me I'll give you a super exclusive tour and let you touch a barrel and/or give you samples of warm fermenting beer straight from the tank or whatever. Put something like "bring back Sour Deezus" in the comments at check out because I really want to brew that again. This is a cool and good idea. I'm gonna mention it to some of my friends who work in the Twin Cities scene. One of the breweries that is more set to weather the storm is brewing a beer that will have 100% of the sales going towards keeping breweries from going under and has set up a gofund me that is going to be spread to whoever needs it.
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Picked up a bunch of cans + crowlers from Live Oak and St. Elmo today and online ordering really should be the norm. Also planning to rip through my cellar, starting with this 2017 Fen Tao: 
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Interesting if this is what pops the craft beer bubble. I figured it would be tropical hop fatigue, natural wine and hard seltzer, not the plague.
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we've actually sold so much beer in the past few days that if this pace keeps up we will run out of crowlers soon (i pulled an eleven hour shift yesterday- swapping out kegs, filling crowlers, organizing online orders, etc, while i was brewing- and finished by making deliveries on my way home). it's been roughly equivalent to our normal on-site sales, but i doubt we'll get close to our normal weekend numbers. if demand keeps up, we might be transferring kegs back into the brite tanks in order to bottle or can them. this isn't sustainable in the long run- draft is a huge part of our business- but it's a lifeline i'm happy to cling to.
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funkybottoms posted:we've actually sold so much beer in the past few days that if this pace keeps up we will run out of crowlers soon (i pulled an eleven hour shift yesterday- swapping out kegs, filling crowlers, organizing online orders, etc, while i was brewing- and finished by making deliveries on my way home). it's been roughly equivalent to our normal on-site sales, but i doubt we'll get close to our normal weekend numbers. if demand keeps up, we might be transferring kegs back into the brite tanks in order to bottle or can them. this isn't sustainable in the long run- draft is a huge part of our business- but it's a lifeline i'm happy to cling to. Wow! I'm glad you guys are doing such brisk business!
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deedee megadoodoo posted:This is a good idea. Purchased 6. Future me will be happy to have those beers. Super appreciated, thank you. Give me a shout when we reopen and I'll hook you up with a growler fill or something. funkybottoms posted:sell those dope double-wide rolling papers got u fam.
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funkybottoms posted:we've actually sold so much beer in the past few days that if this pace keeps up we will run out of crowlers soon (i pulled an eleven hour shift yesterday- swapping out kegs, filling crowlers, organizing online orders, etc, while i was brewing- and finished by making deliveries on my way home). it's been roughly equivalent to our normal on-site sales, but i doubt we'll get close to our normal weekend numbers. if demand keeps up, we might be transferring kegs back into the brite tanks in order to bottle or can them. this isn't sustainable in the long run- draft is a huge part of our business- but it's a lifeline i'm happy to cling to.  That's great to hear! I've got a couple of those crowlers in my fridge and I'm particularly looking forward to the Honest Admiration, which makes a good quarantine beer imo.
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^ thanks again for the support! nice! actually still have the ones y'all were giving out at the TCB's first Covenant festival, because there's no way i'd survive using them all with the 20% stuff that's around these days (shout-out to Lake of Fire for helping me keep my poo poo together) Nth Doctor posted:Wow! I'm glad you guys are doing such brisk business! thanks. i handle all the shipping and web orders, so i'm also seeing the online beer order emails and we've gotten (21) so far this morning for both pickup and delivery. we're not even open yet, so there will be a lot more, not to mention just regular walk-ins from our densely-populated neighborhood. we'll make a couple thousand, which is great, but it's very much a "for now" situation; even if we get a ton of crowlers and people continue to come in, there's no replacing kegs going out to distro, and when money eventually gets tight, cheap-rear end macro lagers are going to be really, really appealing. sorry to make the thread all about me, just figured that a group of craft beer lovers would be interested to know how this is playing out from the production side. funkybottoms fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Mar 21, 2020 |
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Please keep us updated, this is super interesting and I'm rooting for you guys. Its honestly illuminating to know that this exact same scenario is playing out a million times across the country too.
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Thanks to funkybottoms, I got to try some Veil hype. Cognac Circle of Wolves is a respectable barleywine. Like pretty much all Cognac BW's it leans sweet and the backend it more dark fruit than brown sugar/molasses. Good beer, but I'm more interested in the bourbon version, which Mr. Bottoms also sent.
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the bourbon version is better. unfortunately, everyone else felt the same and i was only able to get a couple. speaking of the Veil, on Friday i talked to one of the guys from Reverie, their distribution company, and he's definitely concerned about the fact that they only have a few accounts that are moving product right now- if we go into non-essential lockdown, there's only one grocery store they deliver to, and it's not big. i would assume Veil has the cash to ride this out longer than most breweries in town, but they recently opened a Norfolk location and are mid-construction of the new Richmond location, soooo... i dunno. looking at our online orders is interesting because we are selling so many Honey Ginger crowlers, which is one of our most popular beers on draft, but it absolutely dies on shelves/our cooler when we bottle it. when it rains it pours and all that. oh, and somehow during all of this someone placed an online order for one glass. that's it. postage will cost more than the merchandise. also, we furloughed two of the production staff, so i'm now the longest-serving employee, which is an honor i achieved a few decades earlier than i'd hoped for. might also have brewed our last batch of beer, too, but obviously i'm trying not to dwell on that.
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I would like to say that I got around to trying y'all's saison and I really quite liked it, if that can be at least a little positive for you.
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graybook posted:I would like to say that I got around to trying y'all's saison and I really quite liked it, if that can be at least a little positive for you. yay! stylistically, it's more down-the-middle than i prefer, but it's a good fridge beer and works great with food. we trialed different yeast strains a few years ago and everyone wanted to change to a drier French yeast, but the owner was the only one who didn't like it, so it stayed the same (the Dupont strain). best online order just came through: four baltic porter crowlers and one juice box. delivery.
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