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scottyrocks
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I had a Sam Adams Octoberfest today. Delish.
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EVfun 
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 11:38 pm Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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I had an Elysian brewing Space Dust IPA today. It's a classic PNW style DIPA, a little more light amber than pale with plenty of bittering hops and some late hops too. Elysian is no longer a Seattle microbrewery but AB InBev seems to have left them alone.
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 8:48 am Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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| EVfun wrote: |
| I had an Elysian brewing Space Dust IPA today. It's a classic PNW style DIPA, a little more light amber than pale with plenty of bittering hops and some late hops too. Elysian is no longer a Seattle microbrewery but AB InBev seems to have left them alone. |
I didn't know they had sold to inbev. Bummer.
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EVfun
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 9:36 am Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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| cdennisg wrote: |
| EVfun wrote: |
| I had an Elysian brewing Space Dust IPA today. It's a classic PNW style DIPA, a little more light amber than pale with plenty of bittering hops and some late hops too. Elysian is no longer a Seattle microbrewery but AB InBev seems to have left them alone. |
I didn't know they had sold to inbev. Bummer. |
The original owners sold it in 2015. InBev seems to have largely left them alone, with their physical presence still in Seattle and the beers they are known for still available.
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Heiferman
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 7:29 pm Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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Today was the Wilmington, NC Lighthouse beer festival.
I drank all the beers. Jeepers. There were two super good jalapeño beers and I am disappointed with myself I do not recall the brewery or the beer names. After all, there were many to sample.
Cool starry bra - I know.
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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A friend recently spent some time on the Oregon coast crab fishing. She brought me a gift, cuz she knows I like winter ales.
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mrinnovation1
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2025 3:47 am Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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| Whatever root beer is on sale as long as its not diet. |
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BSQUARE
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2025 3:26 pm Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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| Whatever root beer is on sale as long as its not diet. |
I drink root beer as an occasional treat, rather than just to have something to drink; so being on sale isn't really a consideration, for me.
I prefer Weinhard's or Sprecher
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2025 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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Root beer floats since March of this year..
I'm thinking they still slip a little bit of sassafras in there.
High cheers with the root beer mug! 
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mrinnovation1
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| There is a root beer stand about 25 miles from me that is quite popular. It looks like it was an old A&W drive-up and is still used but I haven't seen anyone on roller skates. I can't help thinking back to the late 60s and early 70s when we would go to the local Dog-n-Suds bringing our own jug and getting a gallon of root beer for 69 cents. That made for a lot of root beer floats. |
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 9:10 am Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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When in the Midwest within their marketing/distribution area, I highly recommend Schell's Brewing Company's 1919 root beer. For many years it was only available on tap at select restaurants. They recently began canning it for wider distribution. Schell's is the second-oldest family owned brewery in the country behind Yuengling. They brewed root beer through prohibition to keep the business running, and they still make it. Good stuff.
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I am not a fan of the IPAs so I stick to my old routine of pilsner in the summers and Bock in the winter. I’ll be switching over soon. As for brand I’ll try anything in those two styles.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 11:18 am Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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Frosty top birch beer from my local ace hardware, they make a nice orange/cream soda as well.
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the_benjamin_effect
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:23 pm Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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| EVfun wrote: |
| cdennisg wrote: |
| EVfun wrote: |
| I had an Elysian brewing Space Dust IPA today. It's a classic PNW style DIPA, a little more light amber than pale with plenty of bittering hops and some late hops too. Elysian is no longer a Seattle microbrewery but AB InBev seems to have left them alone. |
I didn't know they had sold to inbev. Bummer. |
The original owners sold it in 2015. InBev seems to have largely left them alone, with their physical presence still in Seattle and the beers they are known for still available. |
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It was a sad day for me in 2015 when Elysian sold to AB InBev. To this day, I will still not visit Elysian Brewery after their sellout to AB, and I live within reasonable distance to their flagship location in Seattle... I'm looking at you Dick Cantwell... I can hold a grudge like a good anchor holds a ship in a storm.
Anheuser-Busch and ABInBev made a mockery of the craft beer industry just after acquiring Elysian in their newly extensive portfolio of buying the threatening competition of craft breweries.
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The polarizing beer commercial aired during Super Bowl XLIX back in 2015, and if ever there was an ad that Anheuser-Busch probably wishes they could take back, it’s this one.
It was during craft beer’s boom years, when Budweiser’s “Brewed The Hard Way” aired.
Craft breweries were posting double-digit growth and mega-brewer Anheuser-Busch clearly felt threatened, so much so that it had already begun a dedicated campaign to acquire them.
AB InBev shocked the craft beer world with the purchase of Chicago-based Goose Island, Blue Point and 10 Barrel Brewing , as well as the acquisition of Breckenridge and Elysian Brewing in 2015, the same year it touted the strength of Budweiser while taking shots at craft beer and its growing number of fans in the Super Bowl XLIX.
And here’s some of the bulleted text from that polarizing spot that pissed off craft beer’s many fans…
• Proudly a macro beer. It’s not brewed to be fussed over.
• The people who drink our beer are people who like drinking beer. To drink beer brewed the hard way.
• Let them sip their pumpkin peach ale. We’ll be brewing us some golden suds. This is the famous Budweiser beer. This bud’s for you.
The backlash from the craft beer professionals and the community in general. was as immediate as it was sometimes hilarious…
…Elysian co-founder Dick Cantwell who had cut ties with the Seattle-based brewery after it was acquired by Anheuser-Busch, and was clearly unhappy with the commercial…
“I find it kind of incredible that ABI would be so tone-deaf as to pretty directly call out one of the breweries they have recently acquired, even as that brewery is dealing with the anger of the beer community in reaction to the sale. It doesn’t make our job any easier, and it certainly doesn’t make me feel any better about a deal I didn’t even want to happen.”
Not only did craft brewers and pundits weigh in on this poor choice in marketing, even MillerCoors distanced themselves from Bud’s gaffe.
But that was back then, when craft beer was at its hottest…
By 2019 Anhueser-Busch had acquired 13 craft properties, the majority of those now jettisoned, due to poor sales.
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 Below video of AB InBev mocking the craft brewery (Elysian) they just acquired.
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Ok root beer tie in for you North and South Carolina guys. Thomas Creek Brewery. I knew the guy’s mom who started this micro brew. I used to buy real brewed root beer from him through her at work. It came with a CO2 cartridge I think it was CO2 but a gas cylinder the pressurized the root beer it was the best I’ve ever had. But every time I go back down to Anderson I get some Thomas Creek.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 7:21 am Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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It was a sad day for me in 2015 when Elysian sold to AB InBev. To this day, I will still not visit Elysian Brewery after their sellout to AB, and I live within reasonable distance to their flagship location in Seattle... I'm looking at you Dick Cantwell... I can hold a grudge like a good anchor holds a ship in a storm.
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I hear you. Same happened to our beloved 10 Barrel brewery. My buddy is a sales manager for 10 Barrel before the buy out currently with InBev and said it was a good thing and saved some jobs even benefited the employees at the time.
Here is a trip down memory lane for you benjamin effect.
A bunch of us bus drivers at Stellar Pizza about 10 years ago. The photo was taken from the towers of Elysian.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 7:30 am Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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While Inbev indeed once owned 10 Barrel Brewing.
They sold it off to,
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| Acquired by Tilray Brands: In 2023, Anheuser-Busch sold 10 Barrel Brewing and seven other craft beverage brands to Tilray Brands, a global cannabis and consumer packaged goods company. The sale included the breweries, brewpubs, and employees associated with the brands. |
I prefer 10 Barrel as my brew of choice.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 7:42 am Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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While Inbev indeed once owned 10 Barrel Brewing.
They sold it off to,
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I prefer 10 Barrel as my brew of choice. |
Yup and you have met who I’m referring to at Woodburn
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 8:16 am Post subject: Re: What beer are you drinking |
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[quote="the_benjamin_effect"] I'm looking at you Dick Cantwell... I can hold a grudge like a good anchor holds a ship in a storm.
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…Elysian co-founder Dick Cantwell who had cut ties with the Seattle-based brewery after it was acquired by Anheuser-Busch, and was clearly unhappy with the commercial…
“I find it kind of incredible that ABI would be so tone-deaf as to pretty directly call out one of the breweries they have recently acquired, even as that brewery is dealing with the anger of the beer community in reaction to the sale. It doesn’t make our job any easier, and it certainly doesn’t make me feel any better about a deal I didn’t even want to happen.”
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I did my best to trim this down and still screwed it up, but I guess it still makes sense. From the outside looking in and with not much context, it would appear from the quote that Cantwell didn't want it to happen. Why you holding the grudge?
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