The new corporate owners of Goose Island Brewery (AB-Inbev) aren’t wasting any time finding new markets for their purchase. Yesterday I’m sitting in my favorite little watering hole in Manchester UK (ok it’s the Knott Bar, CAMRA pub of the year 2009 and 2010) and lo and behold there’s Goose Island coasters on the bar… They have bottles of the IPA in the cooler. Meanwhile, I still can’t get the stuff on the East Coast. Go figure.
I’m surprised that you can’t get Goose Island on the East Coast. It’s been available in Western NY for about a year now, which is a bit unusual since most brewers who get into the NY market skip upstate NY and go for NYC/Long Island.
When I was doing the Chicago Bears fanclub in NYC I got the bar to stock Honkers’ ale. This was nearly three years ago (am I that old???) so it’s been in that area for a while.