Comments on: Wild Hop Lager: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

By: jack

jack — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:23:50 +0000

Arg, fooled again! I knew it looked a little too clean… and then it tasted bad.

By: pirateboy13

pirateboy13 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:28:53 +0000

You bet!!! I know how much that Damsailor likes his hops. It’s a shame they have to try to muscle in on territory they don’t even need. Keep ‘er hard over!

By: Damsailor

Damsailor — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:49:10 +0000

A-Busch certainly has the resourses and expertise to make and market superior beer. With the market share they hold , they could offer a great beer at a great price. Why don’t they? Why do they hide their identity when fielding a new beer? The fact is the only reason they field these “new beers” is to crowd true craft beers off the shelves.! All supermarkets have limited refrigerated display space , so A-B says display my new product along side our other extensive product line or we will pull all our product from your shelves. Of course they are the “king of beer” sales they are able to muscle the competition from the shelves. How many craft breweries have gone belly up or been absorbed by bigger breweries in your area? It is happening all to often here in the NW.! That is the reason this damn hippie objects to yet another example of a corperate giant eliminating local variety and flavor. Individually these small breweries offer no serious threat to big breweries, collectively they only occupy about 5% of the market total. But the corporate giants see that as dollars stolen from their kingdom and its cheaper to quash the uprising than compete on a level field. Thanks for identifying another counterfeit.!!

By: Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » Contradictions

Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » Contradictions — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:26:55 +0000

[...] Fast forward nine years to the release of Wild Hop Lager, which revealed its origin only to the beer cogniscenti who when they read “Fairfield, CA” on a beer label knew something most people wouldn’t realize. Ironically, the argument expressed in their letter to Fred is the same one I made in my original post about this back in March, Wild Hop Lager: A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing. Several months after its initial release the website now acknowledges that it’s a A-B product but the packaging in the stores still does not. Perhaps when they move through the existing packaging the new labels and carriers will reveal its true ownership, but until then, I think they’ll be doing exactly what they accused Samuel Adams of in 1997, misleading consumers. [link] [...]

By: Eternalfriday

Eternalfriday — Thu, 11 May 2006 23:45:46 +0000

Drink a Wild Hop, smoke a doob and go to Walmart. Its fun.

By: Stephen Shenk

Stephen Shenk — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:25:50 +0000

hello folks, Cherie: If a beverage has the word ‘Lager’ in it’s description it CANNOT be an
IPA. The initials IPA stand for India Pale Ale. The fermentation process between a lager
and an ale are different.
Secondly, to Eternalfriday: the reason we hippies avoid supporting corporations such as
Anheuser-Busch and Walmart is clearly explained in the above blog. Said corporations are
striving to eliminate as much competition as they can. This results in fewer choices of
products, which among other things, encourages higher pricing. Don’t like you’ve never
smoked marijuana before, you kunuclehead!

By: Adam Webster

Adam Webster — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:03:35 +0000

I did drink Anheuser Busch in high school, it was bad then and it’s bad now. (ok, I am being harsh)well the point is that although this beer isn’t coming right out and saying that it’s an IPA, by not saying anything they imply that that’s what it is. in other words unless our friend hadn’t done a great deal of digging then most would assume that it’s an IPA. never mind that a bad faux IPA makes all the others look bad, but this isn’t the first time that Anheuser Busch has conveniently forgotten to mention that their up to something, it’s just bad business.

By: Eternalfriday

Eternalfriday — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:09:02 +0000

Its a good beer and I get it for 6.99 at my local gas station. Its not supposed to be an IPA whoever made that comment. Its just a plain lager using legitimate organic farming methods. Its a little hoppy but nowhere does it claim to be even a pale ale. Who cares that its Anheuser Busch. Dont act like you have not been drinking beers from this company since high school. I appreciate good beer and I deliver all the small brews to include Wolavers. Did you think Anheuser Busch wasnt going to get a piece of this market? Come on! This Wild Hop Lager is for you. Damn hippies. Dont even act like you never step foot in Walmart either.

By: gjdodger

gjdodger — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:52:01 +0000

if you try to go to the website now, you’ll find it’s down; I found it in a cache, though. the way it works, USDA approves the certifying agency, which in turn certifies the product, which enables it to carry the USDA Organic label. so USDA doesn’t certify anything as organic, but it does set the rules under which the certifying agencies must operate, including what constitutes “organic.”

By: David Dronkowski

David Dronkowski — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:15:20 +0000

I really appreciate the review of this beer. Our website just talked about
organic beers and we were going to mention this one, but stopped short because we did not yet know
if it was in Portland. Thank you for the information. By the way, we would love to include your
website in our blog . Keep up the good work.

Cheers,
Prost!

Dave Dronkowski

By: cherie

cherie — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:49:44 +0000

This explains a lot. I picked up some of this beer earlier this week at Safeway and found it very disappointing. The hop flavor is nearly indistinguishable…definitely not what you’d expect from an IPA. A weak attempt at best.

By: Ainz

Ainz — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:24:32 +0000

Well done, well put. In a way, it’s sad. They’re too embarrassed to disclose themselves. — Ainz