The import brew casualty list continues
Sep. 24th, 2009 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_archfiendA while ago, I bitched mightily about losing McEwan's Scotch Ale to the strange illogic of import/export. The ever-trusty BeerAdvocate lists it here, and includes the rather nasty news that it's "no longer exported to the US".
Go figure.
But, hey. There's always equally fine English brews like Mackeson Triple Stout, right?
Uh, no.
Neither the Binny's or Sam's Wine web sites show it as being available, or even as being present in their database by name. Furthermore, while I was stocking up for a party out in the western 'burbs a few weeks ago, a clerk at a Binny's I and my friends were at told us that as far as he knew they weren't even exporting it to the US anymore. Period.
I'm hoping that this is just the result of a weird distribution fight (much like the one that kept Bell's out of Illinois bars and stores for a while), but I get the ugly feeling that it's not.
Go figure.
But, hey. There's always equally fine English brews like Mackeson Triple Stout, right?
Uh, no.
Neither the Binny's or Sam's Wine web sites show it as being available, or even as being present in their database by name. Furthermore, while I was stocking up for a party out in the western 'burbs a few weeks ago, a clerk at a Binny's I and my friends were at told us that as far as he knew they weren't even exporting it to the US anymore. Period.
I'm hoping that this is just the result of a weird distribution fight (much like the one that kept Bell's out of Illinois bars and stores for a while), but I get the ugly feeling that it's not.
