Unfortuantely they need to pay for their $8.5 million dollar brewery so that’s going to equal Kirby brewing low quality crap and selling it at $8-$9/sixer to make up for it. It’s also going to be geared to the "everyday" drinker so it’s never going to be flavorful enough to offend anyone, just will always be meh. |
Originally posted by esjaygee I don’t see saison in that list. But in perusing a story from the Isthmus back in October ( http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=41270), a saison might be on his to-do list. "Nelson says he’s already thinking about a Maibock, and hints that he intends to make a Saison and what he describes as a "kick ass pale" (ale)." (!) |
I didn’t see that article on the Saison, I was just guessing what I thought he might do. Guess that could be the easy drinking beer I had slotted for #2. I wonder if his kick-ass pale Saison while be sort of like Horny Goat’s Exposed Saison, aka not really a saison. I remember a few years back when Capital took their Wheat beer and added a muted Belgian yeast strain to it... sure hope that isn’t his idea of a kick-ass pale. |
Originally posted by esjaygee Sorry...didn’t mean to insinuate your list is wrong--more a "holy shit, Kirby’s making a saison!" I’ll reserve judgment until I drink it, but I can definitely see your scenario coming true. Regarding the pilot batch vs. bottled batch, I’m assuming someone like Skyview looked at it and did the proper research. I’m guessing there were some recipe tweaks after getting feedback at Great Dane/Vintage. |
Originally posted by madvike lol, no worries. Yeah, Kirby didn’t deviate much from the norm while at Capital. Hop Cream and wild rice dopplebocks were about it. So holy shit is 100% correct! I guess that makes sense on the beers being different, though given the feedback I’ve heard here and elsewhere, I think they still need some tweaks! |
It would require a lot of people telling me the beer is great before I’d even buy a sixer. |
Originally posted by levifunk I bought the mix-six at Woodmans for like $8. I’ll drink the extra Session IPA I got, but now I’m wondering what to do with the extra Porter. Probably leave it in the fridge for a guest that wants to try it. Just had the American IPA. Decent, but yeah, don’t need to revisit. |
Someone I was talking to an unreliable source who was convinced they were not bottling on premise, sending their beers to LaCrosse to be packaged up. Can anyone confirm or deny this rumor? I figured an 8.5 million dollar brewery would have a bottling line. Other than the Amber, which is unacceptably sub-par for a beer made in 2013, I still don’t find them to be that bad or offensive, average and mundane is better than infected and homebrewish in my book. |
I hadn’t heard that rumor. Is it possible the had Point or Minhas bottle their first run so they could get it into the market earlier? That wouldn’t make a lot of sense unless their was a problem with installing the bottling line. |
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