Originally posted by Cletus
Is there a reason why in the U.S, they don’t use pump clips like they do in the U.K? Pump clips are a lot cheaper to manufacture.
because that would just be too damn easy! - I hope we all do move to use clips some day.
really, my guess is that everyone is looking for an identity and a way to stand out from the pack. |
Originally posted by Cletus
Is there a reason why in the U.S, they don’t use pump clips like they do in the U.K? Pump clips are a lot cheaper to manufacture.
My favorite local beer bar (The Beer Engine in Lakewood, Ohio) has decided to use plain tap handles with an insert displaying the brand logo and title of all the beers they have on tap in order to make it easier for their employees when swapping kegs on a busy night. I can’t blame them.
I have issues feeling bad for any brewery that ends up short on tap handles. In that specific industry if you produce a good product that product sells itself, when you spend $50 a piece for a tap handle as long as my arm and as decorative as a
Christmas tree you should expect for them to go missing. |
Hasn’t there also been an occasional case of bars putting a tap handle on a different beer when they no longer carry the original? Seems to me that was a news story where a bar in Michigan was passing off Bud Light as Miller Lite (I know, who could tell).
When I was in radio, back when music still came on black vinyl discs, all the promo copies from the record companies were stamped "Promotional Copy Only, Property of ___ Records." Of course, there was never a case of a record company demanding its records back. |
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Originally posted by legion242
The breweries I worked for and with are doing very well for themselves despite how many of their tap handles I have.
Since you don’t give the names of the breweries that you worked for, its hard to say if they are doing well or not. Regardless, the concept that tap handles are disposable items is ludicrous. Are there instances where a brewery might give one or two away to a good customer or employee? Of course, but to suggest they don’t need to worry about them, given the cost, and given the current economy makes no sense. I don’t know of a single brewery, including some of the incredibly large ones that don’t pay attention to items that cost them as much as $50 each. Don’t kid yourself, the breweries care, including the ones you worked for. |
Originally posted by AZeagle
Originally posted by legion242
The breweries I worked for and with are doing very well for themselves despite how many of their tap handles I have.
Since you don’t give the names of the breweries that you worked for, its hard to say if they are doing well or not. Regardless, the concept that tap handles are disposable items is ludicrous. Are there instances where a brewery might give one or two away to a good customer or employee? Of course, but to suggest they don’t need to worry about them, given the cost, and given the current economy makes no sense. I don’t know of a single brewery, including some of the incredibly large ones that don’t pay attention to items that cost them as much as $50 each. Don’t kid yourself, the breweries care, including the ones you worked for.
Fullers, Erdinger, Rogue, New Belgium, Budvar- these are who I have the most taps from.
Why have none of them ever wanted them back? I wish they did, ’cause I am tired of them being in my garage. |
Originally posted by legion242
Originally posted by AZeagle
Originally posted by legion242
The breweries I worked for and with are doing very well for themselves despite how many of their tap handles I have.
Since you don’t give the names of the breweries that you worked for, its hard to say if they are doing well or not. Regardless, the concept that tap handles are disposable items is ludicrous. Are there instances where a brewery might give one or two away to a good customer or employee? Of course, but to suggest they don’t need to worry about them, given the cost, and given the current economy makes no sense. I don’t know of a single brewery, including some of the incredibly large ones that don’t pay attention to items that cost them as much as $50 each. Don’t kid yourself, the breweries care, including the ones you worked for.
Fullers, Erdinger, Rogue, New Belgium, Budvar- these are who I have the most taps from.
Why have none of them ever wanted them back? I wish they did, ’cause I am tired of them being in my garage.
I’m curious as to what capacity you worked for them in? Especially since you are currently certain that they are doing so well that they have no need to worry about the cost of tap handles. I would imagine that they may not know you have them, but if you took them to the local distributor, I am certain they would be thrilled to recover them. |
Originally posted by legion242
Originally posted by AZeagle
Originally posted by legion242
The breweries I worked for and with are doing very well for themselves despite how many of their tap handles I have.
Since you don’t give the names of the breweries that you worked for, its hard to say if they are doing well or not. Regardless, the concept that tap handles are disposable items is ludicrous. Are there instances where a brewery might give one or two away to a good customer or employee? Of course, but to suggest they don’t need to worry about them, given the cost, and given the current economy makes no sense. I don’t know of a single brewery, including some of the incredibly large ones that don’t pay attention to items that cost them as much as $50 each. Don’t kid yourself, the breweries care, including the ones you worked for.
Fullers, Erdinger, Rogue, New Belgium, Budvar- these are who I have the most taps from.
Why have none of them ever wanted them back? I wish they did, ’cause I am tired of them being in my garage.
Ok so you worked directly for Fullers Erdinger and Budvar or did you work for an importer? You don’t really see real reps from any of those breweries in the states. |
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Originally posted by AZeagle
Originally posted by legion242
Originally posted by AZeagle
Originally posted by legion242
The breweries I worked for and with are doing very well for themselves despite how many of their tap handles I have.
Since you don’t give the names of the breweries that you worked for, its hard to say if they are doing well or not. Regardless, the concept that tap handles are disposable items is ludicrous. Are there instances where a brewery might give one or two away to a good customer or employee? Of course, but to suggest they don’t need to worry about them, given the cost, and given the current economy makes no sense. I don’t know of a single brewery, including some of the incredibly large ones that don’t pay attention to items that cost them as much as $50 each. Don’t kid yourself, the breweries care, including the ones you worked for.
Fullers, Erdinger, Rogue, New Belgium, Budvar- these are who I have the most taps from.
Why have none of them ever wanted them back? I wish they did, ’cause I am tired of them being in my garage.
I’m curious as to what capacity you worked for them in? Especially since you are currently certain that they are doing so well that they have no need to worry about the cost of tap handles. I would imagine that they may not know you have them, but if you took them to the local distributor, I am certain they would be thrilled to recover them.
Broker.
Can you tell me that these breweries are not doing well? |
Can somebody please just hurry up and say something awesome so I can seventeen dat ass? |
Originally posted by cquiroga
Can somebody please just hurry up and say something awesome so I can seventeen dat ass?
In Soviet Russia Tap handles Steal You! |
