Comments on: The Ups and Downs of Supermarket Beer http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/the-ups-and-downs-of-supermarket-beer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-ups-and-downs-of-supermarket-beer Going on about beer and pubs since 2007 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:57:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rod http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/the-ups-and-downs-of-supermarket-beer/#comment-25600 Rod Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:12:25 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6140#comment-25600 B + B
drop me an email re Glenn Payne. I’m seeing him Monday.

]]> By: Bailey http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/the-ups-and-downs-of-supermarket-beer/#comment-24834 Bailey Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:10:01 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6140#comment-24834 We’ll have to track him down and talk to him. Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: Craig http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/the-ups-and-downs-of-supermarket-beer/#comment-24812 Craig Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:22:13 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6140#comment-24812 Yeah, yeah whatever… There aren’t any Wegmans in Albany and gas stations aren’t grocery stores.

]]> By: ATJ http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/the-ups-and-downs-of-supermarket-beer/#comment-24802 ATJ Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:49:19 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6140#comment-24802 And then the Tesco in Street had a couple of bottles from St Stan’s in 1995.

]]> By: Sid Boggle http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/the-ups-and-downs-of-supermarket-beer/#comment-24788 Sid Boggle Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:18:47 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6140#comment-24788 I remember visiting a Tesco in Devon and they had Thurn u. Taxis Roggen on the shelves. And the local Otter Brewery lager…

]]> By: Sid Boggle http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/the-ups-and-downs-of-supermarket-beer/#comment-24786 Sid Boggle Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:16:46 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6140#comment-24786 Some Victory, Rogue and other beers from Safeway would up scattered to the four retail winds. The case of Alaskan Smoked Porter I bought from BoE in 2004 was, I’m sure, courtesy of Safeways’ container-buying approach. US drinkers couldn’t get it in NYC. I was taking bottles back there.

Also, I’m sure that Sainsbury’s gueuze (‘Belgian Ale’) was from Frank Boon (IIRC, his name was on the cork), and their French Framhouse Beer was either from Jenlain or Ch’ti. They also did a cracking London Porter.

]]> By: ATJ http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/the-ups-and-downs-of-supermarket-beer/#comment-24777 ATJ Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:54:43 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6140#comment-24777 And at Sainsbury’s in the mid 90s there used to be a German Roggen beer and I also think they had Scherlenkerla but couldn’t swear to it

]]> By: ATJ http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/the-ups-and-downs-of-supermarket-beer/#comment-24776 ATJ Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:53:51 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6140#comment-24776 Glenn was a trailblazer, Safeway used to organise a tasting of their next season’s beers and I remember Mark Dorber then at the White Horse raving about Goose Island IPA, and then Glenn put Deus, several Dogfish Head beers, Victory Hop Devil, Golden Monkey and Goose Island IPA on the shelves for starters and then Morrison’s came on the scene…

]]> By: Alan http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/the-ups-and-downs-of-supermarket-beer/#comment-24769 Alan Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:01:10 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6140#comment-24769 You under-represent the glory that is Wegmans, Craig. And there are growler fills across the border in Sunoco gas stations now.

]]> By: Craig http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/the-ups-and-downs-of-supermarket-beer/#comment-24748 Craig Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:38:29 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6140#comment-24748 In the U.S., supermarkets (at least in my area) are just staring to embrace beer. It used to be, say five years ago, fairly easy to find the bigger craft beer—Saranac, Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada—and of course all the macro lager and better-known imports, like Guinness, Bass, Becks but that was about it. Recently, a local chain has begun doing a pick six-pack, and the beer selection has boomed. They offer beer from all over the U.S. and Europe, and one location is doing growler fill-ups as well!

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