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Cigar City Beers to become more accessible?
Posted on 3/14/16 at 10:56 am
Posted on 3/14/16 at 10:56 am
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Cigar City, a leading independent brewery based in Tampa, Fla., has agreed to sell controlling interest to Boston-based private equity firm Fireman Capital Partners, which already owns majority stakes in Oskar Blues, Perrin Brewing and the Utah Brewers Cooperative outfit that includes the Wasatch and Squatters brands.
Together, the five craft breweries make up what the firm calls United Craft Brews LLC., a holding company and special purpose fund set up specifically for craft brewery acquisitions.
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This is all a good thing, right? Should increase the chance to have Jai Alai and other CC brews on out of state shelves?
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Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:05 am to ragincajun03
Jai alai is in every store here in Alabama. Is it difficult to get in LA?
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:06 am to Gnar Cat21
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Jai alai is in every store here in Alabama. Is it difficult to get in LA?
CC doesn't distribute in LA
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:06 am to ragincajun03
Hopefully they don't shelf turd like Oskar Blues does.
I'd love to be able to get fresh Jai Alai
I'd love to be able to get fresh Jai Alai
This post was edited on 3/14/16 at 11:07 am
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:09 am to Dire Wolf
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Hopefully they don't shelf turd like Oskar Blues does.
Yeah, I'm less and less excited about a brewery expanding to LA these days.
Probably helps that Ghost and Envie are so good and somewhat readily available now a days.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:11 am to s14suspense
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Yeah, I'm less and less excited about a brewery expanding to LA these days.
yeah
I'll get excited when they send the #rare beers, but I'll continue to buy local for everyday drinkers like pale ales
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:11 am to s14suspense
Agree. We've got bells coming in within the month and I haven't really thought about it much. Felt the same when OB got here.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:14 am to Coater
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Agree. We've got bells coming in within the month and I haven't really thought about it much. Felt the same when OB got here.
Only thing I can think of is the 16oz cans of Two Hearted IF they're fresh.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:18 am to s14suspense
Fairhope has made it to the coast so hopefully they're not far way. Now that parish is going to be throughout the state I'm hoping they expand this way at some point
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:19 am to s14suspense
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Yeah, I'm less and less excited about a brewery expanding to LA these days.
my, how things have changed
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:21 am to ragincajun03
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Should increase the chance to have Jai Alai and other CC brews on out of state shelves?
Almost certainly, I'd think.
This also seems better to me than being bought out by AB-InBev. It gives them the capital to grow while hopefully allowing them to maintain the standards that won them the consumer support they've earned thus far. I imagine we will also see them shelfturding just like the Oskar Blues stuff. But maybe as long as we keep getting new breweries we can get to a point where we always have at least SOMETHING that is both quality and fresh that we can choose from?
Besides Envie. I'm still enjoying having it fresh. Heck, I was pricing kegs the other day to see how much I'd save keeping it on draft at home
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:28 am to Dire Wolf
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Hopefully they don't shelf turd like Oskar Blues does.
True that. I've thoroughly enjoyed the Oskar Blues IPA in the blue cans when it hit the shelves in Houston. Haven't been able to find any fresh these days. 10/20/15 is the freshest I'm seeing now, and they've been there a while.
Jai Alai access would be awesome.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:33 am to s14suspense
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Yeah, I'm less and less excited about a brewery expanding to LA these days.
I'd be more excited if we could get fresh stuff on the regular from said breweries. I'd love to have Founders All Day IPA cans in my fridge, especially as pool season approaches. But I'm not buying 4 month old hoppy beers.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:36 am to LoneStarTiger
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my, how things have changed
Yep, I used to be pumped about that. Just seems like you get the initial batch of freshness and then it sits around and we get less and less of it, and then you only get the usual boring stuff with only the occasional fresh batch or rare release and it loses value to me.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:51 am to s14suspense
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Just seems like you get the initial batch of freshness and then it sits around and we get less and less of it, and then you only get the usual boring stuff with only the occasional fresh batch or rare release and it loses value to me.
I drink mainly draft because of this. We get so many beers, and so many of them don't even put a date on the can/bottle, so I don't bother. Most of the places where I buy cans/bottles also have beers on tap, and since I usually limit myself to 1 or 2 on the days that I have one, I just end up grabbing a draft at home or after work. Most hoppy beers taste better on draft than in a can - at least that's my perception, anyway... The good taprooms make sure that their draft kegs are fresh, too. I've watched the owner of Orenco Taphouse send back kegs of Boneyard because they were not fresh.
I do enjoy some beers in cans, if I can verify that they are reasonably fresh. It seems harder and harder to find out-of-state beers that are fresh on the shelves. The nice thing about a beer like Ghost is that when you see it on the shelf, you know it's fresh.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:58 am to Jax-Tiger
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The good taprooms make sure that their draft kegs are fresh, too.
We're still behind the curve on that aspect of the market, IMO. There are a few places that really care, but far more that don't.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 12:02 pm to ragincajun03
i want me some CC IPA
Posted on 3/14/16 at 12:07 pm to Coater
Eh...support local always unless it's a whale but they won't send whalez to the outreaches.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 1:02 pm to Tiger Ryno
Old local pilsners >>>>>>>>> fresh west coast DIPAs
Posted on 3/14/16 at 1:18 pm to ragincajun03
quote:i drank Jai Alai all week last week in florida.
Jai Alai
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