I URGE the citizens of Oakland to fight this unwelcome, unsupported, oblivious, arrogant, presumptuous incursion into THEIR community, THEIR neighborhoods, and THEIR culture with every breath.
AB is no longer an American company and these are no longer Indie/Craft breweries. Those are FACTS. And when you give them your $$$, you’re selling out your culture.
AB sunk its tentacles into yet another property designed to do absolutely NOTHING but gain them cred that they cannot earn for themselves and which they now use to weaken and erode the solidarity and spirit of the American Indie Brewing community.
Deschutes “American Wheat” is a classic American ale. Already, with ONE sip, but confirmed with every successive mouthful.
The food in most American brewery taprooms, alehouses, pubs, and beer halls is driving me crazy and I suspect, from time to time, it’s done the same to you.
AB has been at this for 120 years, folks. They’re betting that younger American beer fans will be just as oblivious a species of douchebag as their forebears.
R.I.P., Chris, you walking talking, singing Gift to music, to being a man, to Seattle, and to me. Too late, I’m afraid, to say, “You will be missed.”..
You already are.
Basil Hayden’s Rye Whiskey jumps to the head of the line of fine American Ryes and devout Whiskey fans are well advised to taste this and see what the buzz is all about.
The Pour Fool 