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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Hawkmoon on February 15, 2017, 05:54:58 PM
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https://vinepair.com/booze-news/walmart-sued-craft-beer/
http://coed.com/2017/02/15/walmart-lawsuit-fake-craft-beer-trouble-brewing-company-info-details-updates/
Wal-Mart is being sued for selling store brand "craft" beer that's not craft beer. In fact, it's produced by a Costa Rican plant owned by weasel pee brewer Genesee Brewing Company, under a nomme-de-bloom "company" that apparently doesn't exist.
Looking on the bright side, it's one thing Wal-Mart is (or was) selling that's not made in China.
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https://vinepair.com/booze-news/walmart-sued-craft-beer/
http://coed.com/2017/02/15/walmart-lawsuit-fake-craft-beer-trouble-brewing-company-info-details-updates/
Wal-Mart is being sued for selling store brand "craft" beer that's not craft beer. In fact, it's produced by a Costa Rican plant owned by weasel pee brewer Genesee Brewing Company, under a nomme-de-bloom "company" that apparently doesn't exist.
Looking on the bright side, it's one thing Wal-Mart is (or was) selling that's not made in China.
Costco is selling beer now that says "Craft" on the label so many times it must be fake. ;/ But it tastes pretty good for $20 per case, so who cares?
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I think the Kirkland Signature craft beer was made by the same contract brewer that also does Trader Joe's private label beer: Gordon Biersch in San Jose. .
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Stuff like this is why I don't drink beer anymore. I've moved on to craft malt liquor. It's made by really small, local breweries. You've probably never heard of them.
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I think the Kirkland Signature craft beer was made by the same contract brewer that also does Trader Joe's private label beer: Gordon Biersch in San Jose. .
It might just be the Kirkland light beer, but I thought I read they actually used a couple of different brewers, East Coast and West Coast, for more efficient distribution.
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Stuff like this is why I don't drink beer anymore. I've moved on to craft malt liquor. It's made by really small, local breweries. You've probably never heard of them.
My drink of choice is very geographically exclusive. You can't even buy it outside of their special distribution region. Best of all, they pipe it directly to my house.
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Ummm.... I'm guessing craft water...?
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Cordex, I thought the pipes were supposed to take the yellow liquids out of the house?
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Cordex, I thought the pipes were supposed to take the yellow liquids out of the house?
It's a closed loop system.
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It's a closed loop system.
Pretty much. At a certain scale, anyhow.
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Just because a product - ANY product, but in this case beer - is made by a small company, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's good.
Just because a product - ANY product, but in this case beer - is made by a LARGE company, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad.
If the guy bought some beer and didn't like it . . . the solution is to not buy it again. NOT FILE AN <EXPLETIVE> LAWSUIT.
Next up: Lawsuit against Keebler. It turns out the cookies AREN'T actually baked by elves in a hollow tree - they've been lying to us for decades!
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Are the beer hipsters just angry that someone made a pine tar flavored beer with a fake 'craft' designation? :rofl:
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Just because a product - ANY product, but in this case beer - is made by a small company, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's good.
Just because a product - ANY product, but in this case beer - is made by a LARGE company, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad.
If the guy bought some beer and didn't like it . . . the solution is to not buy it again. NOT FILE AN <EXPLETIVE> LAWSUIT.
Next up: Lawsuit against Keebler. It turns out the cookies AREN'T actually baked by elves in a hollow tree - they've been lying to us for decades!
Was the guy actually harmed by the beer? Probably not.
Did the product information on the package have the correct source of the product? Probably so.
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Are the beer hipsters just angry that someone made a pine tar flavored beer with a fake 'craft' designation? :rofl:
http://coopaleworks.com/beers/f5-ipa/ (http://coopaleworks.com/beers/f5-ipa/)
My initial impression was that some one fed horses with pine tree, collected the horse pee, mixed it 50/50 with pinesol, fermented it and sold it as beer.
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^^^I know we have a lot of hate for IPAs on this board, but I bet I would love this beer. Give me a double or Imperial IPA with at least 80 IBU any day of the week.
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^^^I know we have a lot of hate for IPAs on this board, but I bet I would love this beer. Give me a double or Imperial IPA with at least 80 IBU any day of the week.
I like IPA's, although I think they are overrated.
What drives me nuts is the "session IPA." It's not a session IPA, it's just a pale ale, and there's nothing wrong with that. Just don't make it too bitter. If you want 80 or 100 IBU's you need lots of malt and lots of alcohol to balance it out.
Local brewpub makes a nice hoppy tripel that's amazing. That's the next fancy beer style I'm going to try making.
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Brewing is a highly automatable and industrializable process. The creative input comes from the recipes and ingredient selection; the rest is just process control. No real compromises need to be made when scaling up to high volume. In fact, larger breweries have the resources to get their beer to the customer faster and fresher... Sierra Nevada just put a brewery on the East coast, and others are doing the same type of thing. And the big companies also get the contracts for hops and malt, leaving smaller breweries fighting over what's left. Brewing is not like cooking, where high volume is more or less opposed to highest quality. If the brewmaster is leaving his personal touch on the beer, he's an epically crap brewmaster.
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Mill Creek - If you are up for an Imperial Stout let me know. It's in secondary ferment now. Likely to be bottled in a week or two. It'll need a while to carbonate and age, but I'm thinking of taking some out to Neah Bay for halibut season (May 4,6). Should be ready by then.