New Store, New Beer

I'm on my way out of town to go sample NW Washington's finest beers this weekend, but I wanted to fire off a quick note about a couple of exciting new arrivals.

The Konigshoeven Trappist beers have returned! The only Trappist brewery outside of Belgium hasn't been available in Oregon for a while now, but the Tripel and Quadrupel have finally reappeared. I haven't had a chance to try them lately, but I'll most likely try them this weekend and post on Monday.

Roots Organic Brewing is bottling! The first beer to hit the market is their excellent Woody IPA. I'm sipping on one as I write this, and it tastes just as good as it does on tap at the pub. As good as it is I'm sure we'll see it popping up everywhere in the near future, but for now we're one of the only places that carries it.

You'll also find a bunch of things that aren't neccessarily "new", but they're "new to us." We hope to become a become a welcome member of our new neighborhood, so we've added a few beers that didn't really fit the scope of the old store: Heineken, Grolsch, St. Pauli Girl, etc...Things that aren't quite "specialty" products, but since we're at least a 1/2 mile from the nearest grocery store we thought we'd try to offer a few of the more popular "mainstream" beers. We don't want to be perceived as snobs, so we're also beginning to offer 12 packs of PBR, Coors Light, and other assorted "mainstream" beers. My philosophy has always been, "I'll try anything once and after that it's up to our customers", so we'll give the big guys a chance to earn a spot in our coolers. However, I don't want slow-moving things taking up space that could be used for other things, so if the neighborhood doesn't want Bud and Miller they probably won't last long.