NathPowe
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Howdy,
I thought I’d share this little anecdote with the group. Not homebrew-related, but there’s definite beer-nerdery herein.
A while back I began having an issue finding freshies of one of my favorite beers (I’m not gonna name names - seems proper). When I say an issue finding freshies I mean that everything I could find was 6 months old. Now this beer is a really hoppy beer, and I’m less than excited about paying for 6 month-old really hoppy beers. And mind you, this isn’t happening at just one store, but at several different retailers. Naturally I mentioned it to the managers on duty at each location and got the expected ‘Yeah, we’ll check it out’. And yet, upon each return visit, the same old beer remained (same date stamp).
Finally I figured what the hell, I’ll email the brewery, and I did. The same day I received a response from a friendly sales rep saying he appreciated me letting him know about the situation and that he’d like to meet up and give me some freshies of the aforementioned really hoppy beer. So naturally I’m stoked and after an email we set up a meet at a bar promo he’s doing.
Fast-forward a couple weeks.
A few hours ago I met up with said sales dude. Cool guy. After introductions he goes on to tell me the story of how I uncovered a significant mix-up in their warehouse/shipping situation. Apparently it was kind of a big thing and very helpful. Basically, my understanding is that there were some fresh pallets of beer on top of a bunch of 6 month-old pallets and this resulted in a mix-up that had them thinking that all of the beer was fresh – and they were shipping it as such (something like that… there has been Stone Enjoy By involved). Thus all the 6 month-old beer I've been finding.
Anyway, sales dude then tells me that, as a result, he has no freshies for me (should be on the shelves in the next week or so) but that he assumed I was a beer nerd (valid) and had something special. He then busts out a cold can of Heady Topper. I live in NC and have never had it… so I was pretty stoked to say the least.
So as I sit here on my couch, listening to The Black Crowes (Before the Frost... awesome) and enjoying a can of Heady on this Wednesday evening, I just wanted to remind ya’ll that Little Beeracles do happen every once in a while.
This stuff really is mighty fine.
I thought I’d share this little anecdote with the group. Not homebrew-related, but there’s definite beer-nerdery herein.
A while back I began having an issue finding freshies of one of my favorite beers (I’m not gonna name names - seems proper). When I say an issue finding freshies I mean that everything I could find was 6 months old. Now this beer is a really hoppy beer, and I’m less than excited about paying for 6 month-old really hoppy beers. And mind you, this isn’t happening at just one store, but at several different retailers. Naturally I mentioned it to the managers on duty at each location and got the expected ‘Yeah, we’ll check it out’. And yet, upon each return visit, the same old beer remained (same date stamp).
Finally I figured what the hell, I’ll email the brewery, and I did. The same day I received a response from a friendly sales rep saying he appreciated me letting him know about the situation and that he’d like to meet up and give me some freshies of the aforementioned really hoppy beer. So naturally I’m stoked and after an email we set up a meet at a bar promo he’s doing.
Fast-forward a couple weeks.
A few hours ago I met up with said sales dude. Cool guy. After introductions he goes on to tell me the story of how I uncovered a significant mix-up in their warehouse/shipping situation. Apparently it was kind of a big thing and very helpful. Basically, my understanding is that there were some fresh pallets of beer on top of a bunch of 6 month-old pallets and this resulted in a mix-up that had them thinking that all of the beer was fresh – and they were shipping it as such (something like that… there has been Stone Enjoy By involved). Thus all the 6 month-old beer I've been finding.
Anyway, sales dude then tells me that, as a result, he has no freshies for me (should be on the shelves in the next week or so) but that he assumed I was a beer nerd (valid) and had something special. He then busts out a cold can of Heady Topper. I live in NC and have never had it… so I was pretty stoked to say the least.
So as I sit here on my couch, listening to The Black Crowes (Before the Frost... awesome) and enjoying a can of Heady on this Wednesday evening, I just wanted to remind ya’ll that Little Beeracles do happen every once in a while.
This stuff really is mighty fine.