Boombozz Taphouse BoomBrew Amber

WTF people. My wife and I went there tonight and had some $2 pints of BBC. Talked to Beckman and Phillip from BBC. We had a good time ,enjoyed the beer, and company. It's a local brewery, and a local pizza place. What else do you want ? Argue semantics? Look I'm in the pizza business,right down the street. The great thing about pizza over another food is we all make it different and it's all good. If we all made the same pizza life would suck. Go see Tony and Beckman this week and come see me next week and I'll buy you a BBC. Celebrate local pizza and local beer. It's made by BBC, who cares what you call it.

Wes,

Thank you for your support. It is refreshing to know that you understand the etiquette between restauranteurs. It similar to golf, you dont step on someones putt line, it's just courtesy, it's how I was raised to play in the restaurant business. Thank you to BBC and all of our customers for a wonderful event, we blew through 1 1/2 kegs of BOOMBREW aka BBC Gold, etc. etc.

Best,

Tony

A C+ grade from Roger? I would definitely take that as a compliment. To me, that's an A++ from a normal person.

I suppose that depends on what you mean by normal.

I'd write more, but I'm waiting for the mountains to turn blue on my cans of Coors Light so that I'm insured against warm swill.

Not.

Sorry, I didn't mean to cannote that you were not normal. I was making the point that you are more educated about beer than the average person. I guess the analogy was more along the lines of getting a C+ from the hardest teacher in school is like getting an A++ from a regular teacher.

WTF people. My wife and I went there tonight and had some $2 pints of BBC. Talked to Beckman and Phillip from BBC. We had a good time ,enjoyed the beer, and company. It's a local brewery, and a local pizza place. What else do you want ? Argue semantics? Look I'm in the pizza business,right down the street. The great thing about pizza over another food is we all make it different and it's all good. If we all made the same pizza life would suck. Go see Tony and Beckman this week and come see me next week and I'll buy you a BBC. Celebrate local pizza and local beer. It's made by BBC, who cares what you call it.

Well said, Wes.

It's made by BBC, who cares what you call it.

I did not join this conversation intent on a deep explication of the merits of labeling pre-existing beers, preferring instead to examine the merits of a draft beer list. However, and since I'm already here, there is an element here of truth in advertising, as inconsequential as it may appear to bystanders.

If I say we use Italian sausage, most of us would view that as "Italian-style," but if I say we're using sausage from Bologna specially ground for us, I'm making a different and more rarified claim. If it turns out that the sausage grinder is slapping different labels on the same sausage, some among us would express annoyance at being misled. If the sausage turns out to be from Hackensack and not Bologna, more of us would raise an eyebrow. and justifiably so. If it was produced down the street from me and is local, why resort to the subterfuge in the first place?

Why should beer be a different story? In the past, Coors wasn't intent on you knowing that Blue Moon was its beer, even calling it "Belgian," which is untrue. It's Belgian-style perhaps, but made at a satellite brewery somewhere in America. I have nothing whatsoever against Tony, BBC or anyone else in this thread, but it remains that implying something is unique when it is not is questionable, period. There's simply no need, local or otherwise. Commission a truly unique contract brew, or sell it as the Amber it already is. Megabreweries spend enough time muddying the conceptual waters for those of us in the craft segment to indulge in the same thing.