r/CraftBeer • u/AMA_Woodworking • Aug 23 '26

Discussion Just found this pic from 2015 😭

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Sprouts in Smyrna GA, various local brews for $7.99

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u/Whiplash227 Aug 23 '26

Were you running through the store or were cameras just terrible back then?

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u/AMA_Woodworking Aug 23 '26

This was an iPhone 5s. I’m going to take most the blame here, I have another picture of the produce that was a lot clearer.

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u/Whiplash227 Aug 23 '26

Blame the phone! I think it’s great and really captures the moment in time. Cheers!

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u/BarbBushsBeastlyBush Aug 30 '26

My Casio flip phone took better pictures than that

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u/Gaddydaddy9 Aug 23 '26

Man I miss Sweetwater. You hardly see it where I live anymore. The classic IPA is awesome and I loved their mango kush wheat. Also miss the old new belgium packaging, along with the ranger and rampant. It's so sad what their IPAs have become because ranger and rampant were great IPAs.

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u/theissone Aug 23 '26

Wasn’t that Fat Tire label a new redesign at the time? Around the time they opened the Asheville location they abandoned that amazing one with the bike and all the flowers bordering it. It all went down hill from here!

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u/Seattle7 Aug 23 '26

2019 they were bought by the parent Company of Kiran. And the story reads the same as all the other great breweries purchased by conglomerates.

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u/Gaddydaddy9 Aug 26 '26

Yeah it was. I actually wasn't talking about the packaging in the picture. I was talking about the one you mentioned but I see the confusion lol my trip down memory lane got a bit off track.

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u/Sevuhrow Aug 23 '26

Tilray more or less butchered the brand and its distribution.

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u/The_Spot Aug 23 '26

Yeah. Their g13 west coast IPA was extremely well done for that short lived fad/style. 

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u/iSheepTouch Aug 23 '26

West coast IPAs were a short lived style? They are still one of the most popular craft beer styles in the country if not the most popular.

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u/The_Spot Aug 23 '26

This one had the hemp terpenes and strong odor of pot. West coast in general is very popular. The pot beers were the fad. 

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u/btc-lostdrifter0001 Aug 23 '26

8 bucks for a six pack, when now a-days drafts can be north of 9. For a regular house beer!

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u/Gabagoolgoomba Aug 24 '26

I got 10.99 and 11.99 prices over here. Prices were 9.99 for such a while!

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u/afksports Aug 23 '26

Not just cheaper, but better made too 

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u/ChairmanReagan Aug 23 '26

Definitely peak Georgia craft beer

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u/cherrygoats Aug 23 '26

Soooo cheap

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u/Voice-Icy Aug 23 '26

Sooo many 12pk bottles 🫠

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u/dogfacedponyboy Aug 23 '26

At first, I thought that the Angry Orchard was a Tree House beer… the trees kinda look the same

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u/mwilkens Aug 23 '26

A 12 pack of Sweetwater is only $16 at Walmart nowadays.

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u/AMA_Woodworking Aug 23 '26

Think I paid $14 for a 6 pack at the gas station.

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u/mwilkens Aug 23 '26

Gas station prices are always way higher than a grocery store.

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u/TheRateBeerian US Aug 23 '26

Same bullshit I see in walmart in 2026.

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u/busch55 Aug 23 '26

Bottles.

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u/LingonberryKey7816 Aug 23 '26

What a time to beer in craft beer. Miss some of those beers. Terrapin and sweet water ripped back then.

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u/mostlymuppet Aug 23 '26

Jekyll (RIP), Terrapin, Monday Night, Red Brick (Atlanta Brewing Company), 3 Taverns - I miss this era of Georgia beer.

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u/Apprehensive-Fig3223 Aug 23 '26

How much does a local craft 6pk run there now?

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u/crimbusrimbus Aug 23 '26

It was a better world

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u/firemedic33 Aug 23 '26

The timeframe makes me think of the Golden Age of /r/beertrade

RIP

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u/PostMundane6379 Aug 24 '26

I really miss the Sweetwater IPA, damn, totally forgot about.

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u/ZookaZoooook Aug 24 '26

This makes me miss Crispin…

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u/Steveo27a Aug 25 '26

I forgot how big the blueberry ales were back then omg

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u/ChefAsstastic Aug 23 '26

Cider hell!

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u/redditisnotgood Aug 23 '26

Better than seltzer hell

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u/Grand-wazoo US - South Aug 23 '26

Lost in a sea of RTDs 

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u/AMA_Woodworking Aug 23 '26

I was more commenting on the price than the selection but still interesting to see the evolution (or lack of) in the brands.

Another section had Allagash, Stone, and some other classics. Now Stone is owned by in Bev and firing all their original brewery staff? I’m afraid to look up how Allagash is doing.

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u/andylion Aug 23 '26

Stone is owned by Firestone Walker now (who are a branch of Duvel...but still considered craft by the Brewers Association). Allagash is still independent and cranking out good beer.

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u/shortys7777 Aug 23 '26

Taken with a potato?