PeenSteen wrote:
I would line up for world class, best in style beers if they were produced in Ontario. It's silly that if world class beers were being produced in our own backyard we would be annoyed by the inconvenience of taking a drive and lining up for them. I would do it gladly, if you aren't willing to do so that is fine by me.
To me the HF issue is less about the volume of people lining up and more about the inefficiency of the process of getting the beer. If they are doing everything they can to move people through their cash and there are still lines, great, have at it. But by just about any account, they aren't doing that, or are moving towards it very slowly.
Pre-filling growlers only makes total sense to me, and if I was in line for two hours because they won't do it, I'd be cranky.
I went a year ago, was told I had to line up in the same line as the growler folks even though I only wanted bottles and left. For my personal value system, his beer (and nobody else's either) is not worth the wait. Sounds like his new bottle line is at least half way to being decent, although I don't understand why the growler people should have any impact on the bottle people.
Personally, I've never yet met a beer I'd way 2 hours for.