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re: Abita cans
Posted on 7/25/11 at 12:54 pm to tetu
Posted on 7/25/11 at 12:54 pm to tetu
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Also I think they'd be better off investing their money in bottling a couple selects every year instead of a canning line.
To get more of your and my money, definitely... to just hit their bottom line canning is probably a better move.
ETA: No reason they can't do both, though. New Belgium cans their flagship beers (Fat Tire) and still puts out some fine bombers of more experimental stuff like the Lips Of Faith series.
This post was edited on 7/25/11 at 12:56 pm
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Posted on 7/25/11 at 12:58 pm to LSUBoo
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Lips Of Faith
I'm in love with this stuff. I could learn to love abita again if they bottled selects...and I believe many beer enthusiasts around the country would also
Posted on 7/25/11 at 1:23 pm to LSUBoo
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Lips Of Faith
Never had it.. But sounds more like a name of a brew Lost Abbey would produce rather than New Belgian.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 1:26 pm to Catman88
What's behind the popularity of Magic Hat? I went to Kona Grill last week and it's on tap there (#9)
Any good?
Any good?
Posted on 7/25/11 at 1:29 pm to Catman88
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Never had it.. But sounds more like a name of a brew Lost Abbey would produce rather than New Belgian.
It's a whole series of beers, big bottles inspired by old world recipes I'm pretty sure. I think they are all European styles, at least. Lots of Belgian stuff, but not just the mainstream Abbey Ale styles.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 1:44 pm to LSUBoo
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It's a whole series of beers, big bottles inspired by old world recipes I'm pretty sure. I think they are all European styles, at least. Lots of Belgian stuff, but not just the mainstream Abbey Ale styles.
I had their Sahti the other day. Meh, nothing bad but not as good as I was expecting. I thought it was going to have a lot more juniper taste to it.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 1:45 pm to LSUBoo
I feel the need to knight for Abita here. They've been gearing up for this for 2 years, and I know this on a factual and a financial basis because of (now former) work. Like someone said, they're just following the national trend, its not some conspiracy to hold down other microbrewers or whatever that ridiculousness was that was spouted earlier.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 1:46 pm to tetu
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Also I think they'd be better off investing their money in bottling a couple selects every year instead of a canning line.
I bet they make more money on this canning line than they would bottling some selects that very few people even know about.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 1:52 pm to rutiger
Bout time Abita. I asked Abita about this few years ago. They said they were working on it.
Abita cans for tailgating, parades, etc. Bottles for around the house
Abita cans for tailgating, parades, etc. Bottles for around the house
This post was edited on 7/25/11 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 7/25/11 at 2:05 pm to tetu
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You say this like they make one beer... or did you have them all?
I had two. One was Amber and the other was an ipa.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 2:39 pm to Fratastic423
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I had their Sahti the other day
I saw you got this. I wasn't going to say anything, but I felt the same way you did.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 2:43 pm to Catman88
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Never had it..
They have some good american wild ales and sours along with alot of other stuff.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 2:51 pm to RedHawk
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bottling some selects that very few people even know about.
Many other breweries seem to do pretty well selling the same beer styles that show up in the select series. Recent ones include Imperial Stout, Double IPA, Black IPA, Vanilla Porter. They wouldn't have to build a whole new line, just a limitted bottling one time a year.
I know what you mean though. We're in Louisiana where a can is able to go to many places a bottle can't. I just wish I could take some of those home.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 3:16 pm to Eddie Vedder
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not to defend Abita but canning has become one of the biggest recent trends in the micro-brew game. they are both just following what is an industry wide movement.
Yeah, and why would that anger anyone? Light is beer's worst enemy... cans prevent light from affecting the beer...
Posted on 7/25/11 at 3:16 pm to tetu
This thread is full of a bunch of high and mighty foodies. Its beer, in a fricking can, and its awesome.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 3:18 pm to tetu
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Many other breweries seem to do pretty well selling the same beer styles that show up in the select series. Recent ones include Imperial Stout, Double IPA, Black IPA, Vanilla Porter. They wouldn't have to build a whole new line, just a limitted bottling one time a year.
I too think they should bottle their select line, but if I had to choose one or the other from a business point of view, canning is the easy way to go for the bottom line. I don't think their is any reason why they couldn't do both.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 3:19 pm to barry
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This thread is full of a bunch of high and mighty foodies. Its beer, in a fricking can, and its awesome.
the vast majority of the folks in this thread are in favor of the move to cans.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 3:53 pm to RedHawk
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I don't think their is any reason why they couldn't do both.
I guess this is where I was heading. It doesn't affect their line so much that it couldn't be planned once a year. And yeah, they will make some money on cans. I'm happy to have beer in a vessel that I can take to parades, tubing, tailgating, etc.
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the vast majority of the folks in this thread are in favor of the move to cans.
I'm ok with it, but do we know if they will be replacing their 6 packs of bottles for cans 100% or will this be an option?
This post was edited on 7/25/11 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 7/25/11 at 3:59 pm to RedHawk
I'm not sure about operationally, but financially, building out the bottling line is/was an enormous upfront cost for Abita. It is by far their largest cap ex project in the last decade, and almost certainly the largest one aside from actually building the brewery itself. I think they're probably trying to streamline the production for the moment, turning the thing off and changing up the beers all the time is probably very costly.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 3:59 pm to tetu
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I'm ok with it, but do we know if they will be replacing their 6 packs of bottles for cans 100% or will this be an option?
It said in the release that they will still bottle the majority of their beer.
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