Rogue Brewery Feature - June 2011

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Sun May 29, 2011 11:19 am

lister wrote: How is purchasing and redistributing not the same as holding and hoarding?

Because it's buying with the intent of sharing? Plus even bringing some DDG to a store shelf in London is making a real difference. Locals should be glad anyone at their store would care.

lister · Post by **lister** » Sun May 29, 2011 11:30 am

Belgian wrote:
lister wrote:Because it's buying with the intent of sharing?
It's no different. How is that different? The same group of people get their hands on it whether the product was held or if Len buys it and hands it over to them.

Plus even bringing some DDG to a store shelf in London is making a real difference. Locals should be glad anyone at their store would care.

A real difference for who? How does a limited availability product make any difference? I'm assuming you mean supporting and growing the craft market. Not when it gets snapped up by the same handful of people out there.

Now if you mean a difference of throwing a bone to the craft supporters out there, then I suppose so.

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Sun May 29, 2011 11:37 am

lister wrote:
SteelbackGuy wrote: The few bottles that end up in London will not be held then. I Will either purchase and redistribute or put em on the shelf, as to not contribute to the hoarding.
How is purchasing and redistributing not the same as holding and hoarding?

Because London doesn't have a single bottle of the stuff, and I managed to get a FEW transferred in. There isn't going to be cases upon cases being held for a select few, or any such thing.
I said I MAY purchase the few bottles and distribute them, likely to folks who never would have even had the chance to get one. Plus, I wouldn't call having 4 bottle of something, hoarding. I'll probably buy 2, and put the other 2 out. I think that is fairly noble.

PeenSteen · Post by **PeenSteen** » Sun May 29, 2011 3:01 pm

I receieved no such memo about holds for DDG, I would hold it for anyone who asked it just so happend that the people who did ask are members of BT.

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Sun May 29, 2011 3:05 pm

lister wrote:....

I see there ish no pleashing you, Auschtin Powersch.

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Sun May 29, 2011 3:15 pm

PeenSteen wrote:I receieved no such memo about holds for DDG, I would hold it for anyone who asked it just so happend that the people who did ask are members of BT.

Well then you're doing the right thing I guess, as I was just relaying what I was told. Some other stock eg. Ola Dubh 40 upon first release was also 'no holds' depending what store you deal with. I just wish it were all more consistent and up-front without the games and guesswork.

TheSevenDuffs · Post by **TheSevenDuffs** » Sun May 29, 2011 3:18 pm

I went to the King & Spadina LCBO yesterday morning at about 10:30 and the entire stock was gone... lasted less than a day apparently.

Seems like there might be a few bottles kicking around in Mississauga, but they may also be gone by the Monday morning inventory update.

Oh well...

hammy78 · Post by **hammy78** » Sun May 29, 2011 5:42 pm

Yeah I was keen enough that I took a trip to Guelph to drop something off at a friends and since I was there picked up a few bottles. I also had a friend pick up a few of the "Double Dead Guy", so I'm looking forward to that. Why do we have to deal with such crappy ways to release things here?

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Sun May 29, 2011 11:42 pm

hammy78 wrote: Why do we have to deal with such crappy ways to release things here?

I assume because the gigantic system doesn't handle tiny orders that well! Which means a dilemma - we get them randomly, or not at all.

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Mon May 30, 2011 1:55 pm

TheSevenDuffs wrote:I went to the King & Spadina LCBO yesterday morning at about 10:30 and the entire stock was gone... lasted less than a day apparently.

Seems like there might be a few bottles kicking around in Mississauga, but they may also be gone by the Monday morning inventory update.

Oh well...

I was just there at lunch. All they had left was the Chipotle and the Somer Orange Honey Ale. The manager said more DDG would be coming in, but not sure if it was at his store.

TheSevenDuffs · Post by **TheSevenDuffs** » Mon May 30, 2011 2:04 pm

phirleh wrote:
TheSevenDuffs wrote:I went to the King & Spadina LCBO yesterday morning at about 10:30 and the entire stock was gone... lasted less than a day apparently.

Seems like there might be a few bottles kicking around in Mississauga, but they may also be gone by the Monday morning inventory update.

Oh well...
I was just there at lunch. All they had left was the Chipotle and the Somer Orange Honey Ale. The manager said more DDG would be coming in, but not sure if it was at his store.

They were out of the Northwestern too? When I was there on Saturday they must have had 3-4 cases of that on the floor...

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Mon May 30, 2011 3:13 pm

All but the Choptle are, in my view worth getting a few of - they are good brews.

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Mon May 30, 2011 3:18 pm

TheSevenDuffs wrote:
phirleh wrote:
TheSevenDuffs wrote:I went to the King & Spadina LCBO yesterday morning at about 10:30 and the entire stock was gone... lasted less than a day apparently.

Seems like there might be a few bottles kicking around in Mississauga, but they may also be gone by the Monday morning inventory update.

Oh well...
I was just there at lunch. All they had left was the Chipotle and the Somer Orange Honey Ale. The manager said more DDG would be coming in, but not sure if it was at his store.
They were out of the Northwestern too? When I was there on Saturday they must have had 3-4 cases of that on the floor...

They may have had it, the shelf was thoroughly picked through and bottles were a little mixed up.

zaireeka · Post by **zaireeka** » Mon May 30, 2011 10:59 pm

Rogue Goodness! Picked these up in Mississauga last Saturday. I called in the morning to reserve two Double Dead Guy Ale's, they had 16 at the time. When I arrived a few hours later they only had two left. Any word on the Soba one?

georgebest · Post by **georgebest** » Tue May 31, 2011 7:16 pm

Tried the Northwestern and Brutal IPA. Beautifully balanced beers, plenty of hop flavours but not overpowering. Both very tasty. Brutal IPA is a bit of a misnomer, not brutal, not excessively bitter. Northwestern, I really liked, a very hoppy amber with lots of malt flavour. Wow.