New beers coming to AA 1 Sep 2018
 

New actual beers coming the beginning of September.

AA says “craft beer”, but these days, maybe or maybe not.

Goose Island: Goose Island Brewery, Chicago, IL (Anheuser-Busch InBev)

Fat Tire: New Belgium Brewing Co. of Ft. Collins, Co (employee-owned)

Samuel Adams: Boston Beer Company, Boston, MA

(Source: email from AA 15 Aug 2018)

Looks like the end of Voodoo Ranger

If the email is accurate in its depictions, the New Belgium Vodoo Ranger IPA would apparently be replaced by the New Belgium Fat Tire Belgian White. For IPA, the Goose Island.

I don’t mind a white for hot summers, but I prefer an IPA onboard.

Goose Island IPA is not bad, and I prefer Fat Tire to anything else currently offered onboard in the beer category.

Sam Adams isn't "craft beer" according to any serious beer drinker and hasn't been for at least a couple decades. Although Goose Island is owned by AB now they still do produce some beers independently in Chicago (not the IPA though). New Belgium is by far closest to a true craft brewery. It's 100% employee owned. However, it's currently the 8th-largest brewery in the USA according to Wikipedia. I can't really blame AA though, as having to cater these drinks from hundreds of locations means they need to source from companies that have a national presence!

Very excited to have a Belgian White available! Doubt that they will offer an orange slice with it however! :D

Safe Travels

Hate to see this, the voodoo ranger is the best beer AA has right now. Enjoyed it onboard today actually.

Goose is crap, and Fat Tire is severely overrated hipster beer.

AA should dump Sam Adams and look into carrying Sierra Nevada.

You couldn't pay this hipster to drink Fat Tire. Ballast Point, on the other hand... :p

Any beer that comes with fruits, veggies or whatever is just a glass full of moose piss - good beers don't need additions!

Best regards from Germany! :D

This is why we need service to BRU, to correct all the overly sensitive Germanic purists.

I think I'll miss the Voodoo, but a broader choice of more flavorful brews is definitely directionally a good move by AA.

More challenging would be to get some "craft" brews from non-US locations to be added to the selection on Int'l flights sourced from the respective countries. Craft Australian, please, craft Czech, please.. (you get the picture ;-) ).

I would like to see AA branch out on beers, but hopefully this is a start. There's some really good stuff out there (Chimay, St Bernardus, Guinness come to mind off the top of my head).

The problem is that 95% of the people I know (and likely the public) don't know many beers beyond the domestic 3 sewage that they grew up on. Many cannot stand darker beers that actually have flavor.

These are the same beers United serves. Guessing it's a cost-savings measure.

Disappointed to see Voodoo disappearing... That IPA has made many a rolling delays just a bit more pleasant (tolerable) in flight :)