Beers (one’s you could buy at stores) that you loved that were kiboshed at by their breweries. This includes beers that are only available at the brewery now.
Schlafly Scotch Ale
Boulevard Tropical Pale Ale
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2A thread up my alley!!
These are two off of the top of my head. I am sure there are more.
Goose Island Honker’s Ale (damn you, Anheuser-Busch!)
Dogfish Head Aprihop
EDIT: I just looked up Honker’s Ale and it looks like it might be available again?!
EDIT #2: college-aged me is still angry about Caffrey’s Irish Ale, though I seem to remember it being very similar to Boddington’s Pub Ale.
These are two off of the top of my head. I am sure there are more.
Goose Island Honker’s Ale (damn you, Anheuser-Busch!)
Dogfish Head Aprihop
EDIT: I just looked up Honker’s Ale and it looks like it might be available again?!
EDIT #2: college-aged me is still angry about Caffrey’s Irish Ale, though I seem to remember it being very similar to Boddington’s Pub Ale.
jason (he/him/his) from volo (illinois)
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3Okay, I thought of something else.
Not necessarily a beer, but a beer style.
I fucking love the Cascadian Dark Ale / Black IPA style. It was a thing for a bit and then it went away. Very upset about that.
Not necessarily a beer, but a beer style.
I fucking love the Cascadian Dark Ale / Black IPA style. It was a thing for a bit and then it went away. Very upset about that.
jason (he/him/his) from volo (illinois)
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4I have a bottle opener for some old Boston beer called Haffenreffer. Anyone ever try it? Pretty sure it went under before my time.
We're headed for social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.
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5Bell's Oberon circa 2000-2003. Whatever they're selling as Oberon now isn't the same.
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6I do quite a bit of homebrewing, and I made a Bell's Two Hearted clone in 2015, but with black malt. This was right around the peak of the CDA/BIPA craze. I called it "Black Hearted." Made it quite a few times after that.jfv wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 5:13 pmI fucking love the Cascadian Dark Ale / Black IPA style. It was a thing for a bit and then it went away. Very upset about that.
In 2020, Bell's released their own "Black Hearted" ale. Tastes pretty similar to what I was doing. You can still find it in their variety packs.
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7Stillwater Classique. It went away, it came back, and now the can fucking sucks and I can't find it anywhere.
it's making a return in san diego. Yes, the year is 2013 once again. I am a happy boy.
https://bineandvine.com/product/societe ... pa-collab/jfv wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 5:13 pm Okay, I thought of something else.
Not necessarily a beer, but a beer style.
I fucking love the Cascadian Dark Ale / Black IPA style. It was a thing for a bit and then it went away. Very upset about that.
it's making a return in san diego. Yes, the year is 2013 once again. I am a happy boy.
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8When I knew about it in the late 80s, it had transitioned into some truly awful malt liquor (with rebus puzzles under the caps!), and apparently it was contract brewed by Narragansett. Also by that time Sam Adams had taken over the brewery in Jamaica Plain, which was the first brewery tour I'd ever been to, though even then Sam Adams had outgrown the JP location and mostly just used it as a taproom.Krev wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 7:18 pm I have a bottle opener for some old Boston beer called Haffenreffer. Anyone ever try it? Pretty sure it went under before my time.
There was another Boston beer called Brubaker that came in 16oz bottles and was most famously sold at Theater District drag bar Jacques.
Does anyone remember Glacier Bay (or maybe Arctic Bay?) - who had bottle openers built into the underside of the bottles?
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9Chainbreaker by Deschutes. It was a white IPA (AREN'T THEY ALL) and the first time I had a hazy IPA I thought it reminded me of Chainbreaker. Anyway, it's now a Heartbreaker as I certainly miss it.
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10Thanks for the info! I used to get into a bar with a bad fake ID. They had $1 Brubakers on certain nights. That stuff was swill. While not a Mass beer, I miss Gennessee Cream Ale.twelvepoint wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 3:52 pmWhen I knew about it in the late 80s, it had transitioned into some truly awful malt liquor (with rebus puzzles under the caps!), and apparently it was contract brewed by Narragansett. Also by that time Sam Adams had taken over the brewery in Jamaica Plain, which was the first brewery tour I'd ever been to, though even then Sam Adams had outgrown the JP location and mostly just used it as a taproom.Krev wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 7:18 pm I have a bottle opener for some old Boston beer called Haffenreffer. Anyone ever try it? Pretty sure it went under before my time.
There was another Boston beer called Brubaker that came in 16oz bottles and was most famously sold at Theater District drag bar Jacques.
Does anyone remember Glacier Bay (or maybe Arctic Bay?) - who had bottle openers built into the underside of the bottles?
We're headed for social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.