It’s not on the website list;-). We have about 10 different Struise beers in the shop for the moment.
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I thought that the idea from Urbain about increasing the amount of ratings that a top 50 beer needs in order to make the top 50 is quite a good one, if it was increased to 200 or 250 then it would zap quite a lot of the current crop. Interestingly it might also sideline those particularly bonkers beers that crop up entitled something like Old Crudingtons Oak Aged, Smoked, Bombastic Imperial Stout aged in barrels recovered from the Titanic and then flavoured with rare Peruvian Jabba Jabba beans and finally enhanced with a dash of Civet Phlegm, available only in a leap year and in a shed 58 miles from the nearest human habitation. Those beers would still be there and so could be rated but could be in a new area called circus oddity beers. Just an idea?
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I guess you are utterly right. At least, we brewers, would have the time to properly launch a beer, etc... Take Black Albert for instance, it was so over hyped at a certain time, it took us almost a year for the production of this beer to stabilize in function of market needs. In the meantime everybody was knocking on all doors, leading again to tension, chaos, and frustration. With Pannepot, we had a lot more time, we were not known then, still a top50, but no chaos concerning production. So yes, this enhanced feature would help us a lot... thank you for thinking in the same direction. Cheers, Urbain
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My comments were really quite tongue in cheek Urbain but I’m sure that you knew that, I was just having a little dig at some of the more unusual and one off beers that are nigh on impossible to get. Although the moving of the amounts to say 200 or 250 I think is a good idea, as long as peoples rating stayed for the other ones I couldn’t see that anyone one would be too bothered. But to be honest as much as I was having a little joke about some of those beers and the fact that to even have a sneaky glimpse of some of them you’ve got to sell your granny, well I would probably be someone who would seek out those beers on the odd occasion, maybe without the efforts and and expense that some do but its all about choice. The fact that there are brewers out there prepared to experiment and try different things is fantastic. If someone like yourself brews a good beer it will invariably make it into the top 50 it might just take a little longer, but it’ll get there.
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Well since this thread is now a free-for-all I’ll offer an opinion that no one will read.
If we’re sticking to commercially available as the requirement for a beer being listed, I would say the beer does not need to be listed until it is available for purchase, even if the only means of purchasing it are at the farm.
Being cost or distance prohibitive to acquire like many Struise and other limited release beers has not stopped beers like HOTD Dave from being listed and at 80 bucks a bottle and only in a lottery system it would be easy to argue that even Dave is not commercially ’available’.
All that means is that people lucky enough to sample an early batch will just have to wait a while until they can put up their tick.
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Not as much as I deeply apologise for starting this thread.
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My friend, somehow I’m thinking of Monty Python and speciality chocolates...
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I would absolutley love to see an honest to goodness fight over this forced bottle of darkness.
Of course it would be much funnier if you both looked like your avatars.
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Yes it makes it commercially available and answers my question. Cheers!
Now you have to send one of those bottles to me to taste. ;-P
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