The Feds Ordered Sixpoint to Shut Down 'Hop Obama'
A tipster just forward an email that just went out to Facebook fans of Sixpoint Craft Ales alleging that the Federal Government raided the beer maker’s Red Hook headquarters recently forced the beer maker to shut down production of its popular ‘Hop Obama’ line started during campaign season. Even the Department of Homeland Security got…
A tipster just forward an email that just went out to Facebook fans of Sixpoint Craft Ales alleging that the Federal Government raided the beer maker’s Red Hook headquarters recently forced the beer maker to shut down production of its popular ‘Hop Obama’ line started during campaign season. Even the Department of Homeland Security got involved, threatening to seize the brewery. Bummer: It may be the best beer we’ve ever tasted. (N.B. It’s Sixpoint Night at Barcade next week.)
I was thinking that Brenda and now you go and ruin it. Where can I buy a sixpack of this stuff????
Maybe Shane shouldn’t have said “Sixpoint was raided by the Feds” in his email to us – This creates a mental image of Eliot Ness storming the brewery with troopers and taking an axe to beer barrels.
No one has pointed out that a “Hop Obama” bottle should now become a hot collectible! E-bay, anyone? Cheers!
Don’t mess with The President.
Hop Obama is very, very good, but Hop Angel from Chelsea is better. Rumours that G-d is going to ask that the latter be renamed are wholly unfounded.
That’s called marketing, rob.
why do some bars carry like 40 beers with different names and labels but they basically all taste the same? maybe i have a crappy palette or something, i dont know. it just seems ridiculous to make up a stupid name for a beer, use the same (yes same) recipe and slap on a sticker you made in photoshop and sell it for 9 bucks. *r*
This is the first step in the return to Prohibition.
There was no beer that needed to be destroyed as all of the inventory that we had was shipped to our distributor, and our distributor was also out-of-stock (demand was high).
Therefore, the only kegs left in existence were those that we already purchased by end-user accounts, and were being stored for a later date (like the inauguration, etc).
I don’t believe there are any more kegs in existence now though, as there certainly are not any at our facility.