Comments on: REVIEW: Stockyard Oatmeal Stout http://www.hallofbeers.com/2008/07/07/review-stockyard-oatmeal-stout/ beer reviews, news, and adventures in booze Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:02:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: General German http://www.hallofbeers.com/2008/07/07/review-stockyard-oatmeal-stout/comment-page-1/#comment-2511 General German Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:30:14 +0000 http://www.hallofbeers.com/2008/07/07/review-stockyard-oatmeal-stout/#comment-2511 There I was in Trader Joe's yesterday, buying potstickers and Marinara sauce (staples in our household, not at the same time), when I happened upon an odor of a man who had not bathed in five days. I followed this scent to the beer aisle, where I encountered a disheveled man rummaging the beer bottles (and making a helluva racket). Standing my distance, I was especially intrigued when he emitted an ecstatic "Ummmmmggghhh!" upon successful location of...a bottle of Stockyard Oatmeal Stout. He bought _one_, asking a fellow store patron for a quarter to help him out. I pondered this for a while afterwards: if homeless men are indeed craving stouts over, say, a forty, has microbrew finally penetrated all market segments? There I was in Trader Joe’s yesterday, buying potstickers and Marinara sauce (staples in our household, not at the same time), when I happened upon an odor of a man who had not bathed in five days. I followed this scent to the beer aisle, where I encountered a disheveled man rummaging the beer bottles (and making a helluva racket). Standing my distance, I was especially intrigued when he emitted an ecstatic “Ummmmmggghhh!” upon successful location of…a bottle of Stockyard Oatmeal Stout. He bought _one_, asking a fellow store patron for a quarter to help him out.

I pondered this for a while afterwards: if homeless men are indeed craving stouts over, say, a forty, has microbrew finally penetrated all market segments?

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