Here's a perfect example of the draft price thing. Local brewing co/tap house has Firestone Sucaba, 10 oz pour, 11 bucks. What the hell?! They are never the best deal for any of their guest taps, but why do they feel the need to charge more per ounce than the $15 bombers. One of the more reasonably priced places in town, would probably have 10-12 oz pours, for $6-8...

My pet peeve is breweries that don't update their websites. Went to visit a local brewpub today because a couple of beers I missed the first time around were available in bottles again.....or so the website said so. Well I got there, and guess what, turns out the web site was last updated before Christmas. So, I was unable to get the beers I wanted, although all was not lost as there were a couple of new offerings available that I snapped up. But still...........craft brewers and brewpubs should be updating their websites often.

Good addition! With the rise of social media sites, a lot of brewery, bar, and bottle-shop websites have become rather useless. Check Toronado SF...I think they update the tap list every year or two. And I totally get it if you'd rather update a blog, or Facebook...but then don't have a tap list on your neglected website. It reflects poorly on your business!

quote: quote: Originally posted by cyrenaica My pet peeve is breweries that don't update their websites. Went to visit a local brewpub today because a couple of beers I missed the first time around were available in bottles again.....or so the website said so. Well I got there, and guess what, turns out the web site was last updated before Christmas. So, I was unable to get the beers I wanted, although all was not lost as there were a couple of new offerings available that I snapped up. But still...........craft brewers and brewpubs should be updating their websites often.

Concur - can be frustrating.

quote: Originally posted by slowrunner77 Good addition! With the rise of social media sites, a lot of brewery, bar, and bottle-shop websites have become rather useless. Check Toronado SF...I think they update the tap list every year or two. And I totally get it if you'd rather update a blog, or Facebook...but then don't have a tap list on your neglected website. It reflects poorly on your business! quote: quote: quote: Originally posted by cyrenaica My pet peeve is breweries that don't update their websites. Went to visit a local brewpub today because a couple of beers I missed the first time around were available in bottles again.....or so the website said so. Well I got there, and guess what, turns out the web site was last updated before Christmas. So, I was unable to get the beers I wanted, although all was not lost as there were a couple of new offerings available that I snapped up. But still...........craft brewers and brewpubs should be updating their websites often.

If Curtis agrees, I take back what I said [:D]

Most breweries will send out tweets about special releases, new beers, collaborations, giveaways and most everything else nowadays. Twitter, then Facebook, are the best ways for brewers to get news to their customers without any change to their websites. It is a pain in the ass though if you take websites for current when they are not. I've done that before too. Anyway, I follow all local breweries on social media along with the good beer merchants; I rarely miss any news or special releases that way.

I personally don't want to have to follow dozens of breweries on multiple outlets just to see what they have on tap. If you have a site, use it. If not, axe it. Having a blog or facebook page serve as your website is great, and would only take a minute each day to put a full tap list on there. But how many do that? You might, if you're lucky, get one or two new releases at a time, but hardly ever a comprehensive list. It ain't that hard!

quote: Originally posted by bluesandbarbq Most breweries will send out tweets about special releases, new beers, collaborations, giveaways and most everything else nowadays. Twitter, then Facebook, are the best ways for brewers to get news to their customers without any change to their websites. It is a pain in the ass though if you take websites for current when they are not. I've done that before too. Anyway, I follow all local breweries on social media along with the good beer merchants; I rarely miss any news or special releases that way.

quote: Originally posted by slowrunner77 I personally don't want to have to follow dozens of breweries on multiple outlets just to see what they have on tap. If you have a site, use it. If not, axe it. Having a blog or facebook page serve as your website is great, and would only take a minute each day to put a full tap list on there. But how many do that? You might, if you're lucky, get one or two new releases at a time, but hardly ever a comprehensive list. It ain't that hard! quote: quote: Originally posted by bluesandbarbq Most breweries will send out tweets about special releases, new beers, collaborations, giveaways and most everything else nowadays. Twitter, then Facebook, are the best ways for brewers to get news to their customers without any change to their websites. It is a pain in the ass though if you take websites for current when they are not. I've done that before too. Anyway, I follow all local breweries on social media along with the good beer merchants; I rarely miss any news or special releases that way.

I don't mind the Facebook thing as I use it to get a lot of information, but even then, not everybody does it. I have a brewery not far from me that has not updated their website since 2009, they have a Facebook page/group that they don't use, and yet, they are the 14th largest microbrewer in Ontario. But then, of the 400+ Canadian breweries, there are still a handful that don't have legitimate websites at all.

When all else fails, call ahead! Old fashion phone calls work, if you can get a number... [:)]

quote: Originally posted by bluesandbarbq When all else fails, call ahead! Old fashion phone calls work, if you can get a number... [:)]

Lou, even though that misses the point of keeping your media up to date if you're going to bother with any to begin with...you're still assuming the person on the other end knows what they're talking about. That is far too often not the case. If clueless hostess picks up the phone (assuming she even thinks to look at the menu when you ask for the tap list) the menus are very often inaccurate. More than one place in Reno is cheap enough that they put a beer on their menu a week before it comes out to save money. On friggin paper! And of course by the time that beer is really on, two of the others are dry. I even called ahead to a pub for them to set aside bottles of a rarity for us, went there specifically for that beer, and then of course they had no clue what we were talking about when we got there.