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RE: Brewer's Lounge Coming to Festhaus Kaffe in 2016
Hopefully something from Charlottesville like Three Notch'd, or Devils Backbone. Those are smaller micro breweries. Guinness and Sam Adams and Coors and Budewiser are MACRO-BREWERIES man. Complete opposite of what their announcement stated.. Sam Adams is already at the park, or has been since Christmas Town at least. Pretty sure I saw Guinness at Christmas Town also but could be wrong
The Hessian said:
Hopefully something from Charlottesville like Three Notch'd, or Devils Backbone. Those are smaller micro breweries. Guinness and Sam Adams and Coors and Budewiser are MACRO-BREWERIES man. Complete opposite of what their announcement stated.. Sam Adams is already at the park, or has been since Christmas Town at least. Pretty sure I saw Guinness at Christmas Town also but could be wrong
RE: Brewer's Lounge Coming to Festhaus Kaffe in 2016
Brass Cannon had their Angry Scot beer at BGW's Food and Wine Festival last year. The funny thing is that BGW kind of hid that it was from a Williamsburg Brewery since they were trying to pawn it off as a Scottish beer.
Alewerks is the best local brewery but their demand is just about surpassing their availability. Currently they are the main beer provider for CW and they are having a hard time keeping up with one major client. I believe they are about ready to go through a major upgrade though in order to up their production.
The other Williamsburg brewery (Virginia Beer Company) won't be open for another month or so.
Though at the end of the day, they are all dependent on their distributors. On a semi related note- Virginia Beer Company has an interesting blog post on beer distribution in VA and it actually has a tidbit in there that shows how Busch influenced VA's distribution laws.
http://www.virginiabeerco.com/news/blog/distributionva
Brass Cannon had their Angry Scot beer at BGW's Food and Wine Festival last year. The funny thing is that BGW kind of hid that it was from a Williamsburg Brewery since they were trying to pawn it off as a Scottish beer.
Alewerks is the best local brewery but their demand is just about surpassing their availability. Currently they are the main beer provider for CW and they are having a hard time keeping up with one major client. I believe they are about ready to go through a major upgrade though in order to up their production.
The other Williamsburg brewery (Virginia Beer Company) won't be open for another month or so.
Though at the end of the day, they are all dependent on their distributors. On a semi related note- Virginia Beer Company has an interesting blog post on beer distribution in VA and it actually has a tidbit in there that shows how Busch influenced VA's distribution laws.
http://www.virginiabeerco.com/news/blog/distributionva
RE: Brewer's Lounge Coming to Festhaus Kaffe in 2016
Wow. The language in the ABC Act is fairly specific about theme parks, isn't it?
Wow. The language in the ABC Act is fairly specific about theme parks, isn't it?
RE: Brewer's Lounge Coming to Festhaus Kaffe in 2016
One sentence had the word 'such' written 7 times. I didn't know there were so many rules involved with selling a beer.
One sentence had the word 'such' written 7 times. I didn't know there were so many rules involved with selling a beer.
RE: Brewer's Lounge Coming to Festhaus Kaffe in 2016
I want them to get some Celocanth Brewing Company stuff, because the park could use some stuff Ned after a really cool fish. :V
I want them to get some Celocanth Brewing Company stuff, because the park could use some stuff Ned after a really cool fish. :V
RE: Brewer's Lounge Coming to Festhaus Kaffe in 2016
But their beer is terrible.
Really there are at least a dozen local breweries from Richmond to VA Beach and at least a handful have a large production that could be used at BGW (Smartmouth, Hardywood, Legend, St. George [which I believe was served at the park at some point], etc.)
jornor said:
But their beer is terrible.
Really there are at least a dozen local breweries from Richmond to VA Beach and at least a handful have a large production that could be used at BGW (Smartmouth, Hardywood, Legend, St. George [which I believe was served at the park at some point], etc.)
RE: Brewer's Lounge Coming to Festhaus Kaffe in 2016
I happen to enjoy their beer very much, their recently released "Pride Session Pale Ale" is absolutely delicious. And the other breweries you mentioned I've already pointed out, they are all great as well. I was merely pointing out the region and local brewery of Young Veterans since the subject of Norfolk breweries had arisen.
St. George's Brown Ale was in rotation this past Christmas Town in Ireland off and on and St. George Oktoberfest & St. George Winter Scotch were available in The Festhaus pretty much at all times.
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I happen to enjoy their beer very much, their recently released "Pride Session Pale Ale" is absolutely delicious. And the other breweries you mentioned I've already pointed out, they are all great as well. I was merely pointing out the region and local brewery of Young Veterans since the subject of Norfolk breweries had arisen.
St. George's Brown Ale was in rotation this past Christmas Town in Ireland off and on and St. George Oktoberfest & St. George Winter Scotch were available in The Festhaus pretty much at all times.
RE: Brewer's Lounge Coming to Festhaus Kaffe in 2016
Regardless I cant see myself paying $8 per beer(or was it 7). Especially if it's a budweiser, etc. If they had some good brews like the ones they had during the special events last year at about 6 bucks, I would probably buy one or two. I wonder what the profit margins look like in order for the price drop to be profitable (i.e. they make $5 on an $8 beer but only $3 on $6 beer). Also part of it could be drunk insurance. Most people won't get drunk on beer at $7-8 a pop. All this could be a topic for another thread. Point and case, I will not pay that much for a cheap beer.
Regardless I cant see myself paying $8 per beer(or was it 7). Especially if it's a budweiser, etc. If they had some good brews like the ones they had during the special events last year at about 6 bucks, I would probably buy one or two. I wonder what the profit margins look like in order for the price drop to be profitable (i.e. they make $5 on an $8 beer but only $3 on $6 beer). Also part of it could be drunk insurance. Most people won't get drunk on beer at $7-8 a pop. All this could be a topic for another thread. Point and case, I will not pay that much for a cheap beer.
RE: Brewer's Lounge Coming to Festhaus Kaffe in 2016
I am going to try and answer this. Why I do not have any experience in Busch or other theme parks food and beverage department other then as a customer I did work several years in that area for a major music venue and still know people who do work in that area at a high level. First and let me be very clear on this the high prices that must people associate with price gauging really aren't that. Most of these venues don't actually make any higher profit margins then your average mid level restaurant does. As a whole I would guess that on an $8 beer the park probably sees $2 to $2.50 in actual profits once all cost are figured into it.Fur Dozy said:
RE: Brewer's Lounge Coming to Festhaus Kaffe in 2016
I was Sea World this past week and experienced the "Pass members lounge" and it was pretty awesome. I wouldn't mind seeing that applied to the Festhaus. The free soda, comfy chairs/couches, phone charging station and table service were great.
I was Sea World this past week and experienced the "Pass members lounge" and it was pretty awesome. I wouldn't mind seeing that applied to the Festhaus. The free soda, comfy chairs/couches, phone charging station and table service were great.
RE: Brewer's Lounge Coming to Festhaus Kaffe in 2016
At the announcement last year Franz Kitenko stated that the pass member lounge was a limited time promotion and that the new Craft Beer room would be replacing Festhaus Kaffee (which was open to the public). As far as I can tell, there will be no limitation to admittance.
Craft Beer Room Announcement: Link
At the announcement last year Franz Kitenko stated that the pass member lounge was a limited time promotion and that the new Craft Beer room would be replacing Festhaus Kaffee (which was open to the public). As far as I can tell, there will be no limitation to admittance.
Craft Beer Room Announcement: Link