Trader Joe's

Fly · Apr 27, 2009

JC said:

Fly said:

93Devil said:

JC said:

93Devil said:

deskslave said:

93Devil said:

Fenian_Bastard said:

Trader Joe's has beer?
Where?
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Ummmm.... next to the wine?

Maybe they have some rules in your state about booze in grocery stores?

The first sixer I bought was called "Frugal Joe." Good solid beer. The next time I bought "Simpler Times" which checks in at an ass kicking 5.2 booze content. I have a pale ale in my fridge right now.
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5.2 is ass kicking? Oh, my son, you have so much to learn.
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It is when everything else is a 3.1.
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wow, that is week beer. Average is 5% in Canada
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I think Coors Light checks in at 1.7.

You are correct, Canadian beers are much stronger than ours.

You learn, though, that anything with the name "ice" in it will be a stronger beer. If you are used to drinking one thing, a change like that will get you in trouble right away. You are almost drinking two-to-one.
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Spent Saturday outdoors at a wonderful bash in NW Indiana drinking 13% Imperial Stouts. Canadian beer doesn't hold a candle to good craft beers. Mainstream for Mainstream, I'll concede but US Craft beer is killer.

TJ's beers are made by Goose Island and Gordon Biersch for the most part IIRC.
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Don't want to drink 13% beers, that is like drinking wine.

Devil are you kidding me that light beer is 1.7%, that can't be right, can it? It's 4% up here.

How many beer would it take to get drunk on 1.7%? 40, 50?
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Don't discount a beer due to alcohol content alone. I've had tremendous beers that are below 4% ABV, plus some really crappy ones 15+%. High gravity brews aren't meant to be guzzled down pint after pint all day, to be certain, but sipped wisely many big beers are manna. Keep that mind open!!

JC · Apr 27, 2009

Fly said:

JC said:

Fly said:

93Devil said:

JC said:

93Devil said:

deskslave said:

93Devil said:

Fenian_Bastard said:

Trader Joe's has beer?
Where?
Click to expand...

Ummmm.... next to the wine?

Maybe they have some rules in your state about booze in grocery stores?

The first sixer I bought was called "Frugal Joe." Good solid beer. The next time I bought "Simpler Times" which checks in at an ass kicking 5.2 booze content. I have a pale ale in my fridge right now.
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5.2 is ass kicking? Oh, my son, you have so much to learn.
Click to expand...

It is when everything else is a 3.1.
Click to expand...

wow, that is week beer. Average is 5% in Canada
Click to expand...

I think Coors Light checks in at 1.7.

You are correct, Canadian beers are much stronger than ours.

You learn, though, that anything with the name "ice" in it will be a stronger beer. If you are used to drinking one thing, a change like that will get you in trouble right away. You are almost drinking two-to-one.
Click to expand...

Spent Saturday outdoors at a wonderful bash in NW Indiana drinking 13% Imperial Stouts. Canadian beer doesn't hold a candle to good craft beers. Mainstream for Mainstream, I'll concede but US Craft beer is killer.

TJ's beers are made by Goose Island and Gordon Biersch for the most part IIRC.
Click to expand...

Don't want to drink 13% beers, that is like drinking wine.

Devil are you kidding me that light beer is 1.7%, that can't be right, can it? It's 4% up here.

How many beer would it take to get drunk on 1.7%? 40, 50?
Click to expand...

Don't discount a beer due to alcohol content alone. I've had tremendous beers that are below 4% ABV, plus some really crappy ones 15+%. High gravity brews aren't meant to be guzzled down pint after pint all day, to be certain, but sipped wisely many big beers are manna. Keep that mind open!!
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With Beer, the mind is always open.

93Devil · Apr 27, 2009

JC, the Silver Bullet won't slow you down.

I thought it used to run 1.7 for Coors Light, Ultra, 3.1 for Bud, Coors Miller and 5.2 for Bud Ice, Icehouse, King Cobra and the like.

Like I said, I could be way off base with that, but when I bartended back in the mid-90s, on a slow night we called the numbers on the bottles to find out what we (they) were drinking.

JC · Apr 27, 2009

93Devil said:

JC, the Silver Bullet won't slow you down.

I thought it used to run 1.7 for Coors Light, Ultra, 3.1 for Bud, Coors Miller and 5.2 for Bud Ice, Icehouse, King Cobra and the like.

Like I said, I could be way off base with that, but when I bartended back in the mid-90s, on a slow night we called the numbers on the bottles to find out what we (they) were drinking.
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It will if I'm drinking 50. I also think that American and Canadian beers are weighted differently for alcohol content and there isn't as much difference as some people think.

93Devil · Apr 27, 2009

So the light is lighter, but not as light as I thought.

From Wiki...

Coors Light ad on a Toronto building Coors is responsible for over twenty different brands of beer[17] in North America. The most notable of those brands are:

Coors, the "Banquet Beer", also known as "Coors Original", a 5% abv pale lager. This is the oldest brand in the Coors portfolio, first brewed in 1874[18], and has been given awards at World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and at the Great American Beer Festival in 2004[18].

Coors Light, the "Silver Bullet", a 4.2% abv beer first brewed in 1978 as a low calorie beer. It is Coors' top selling brand, and the third-best selling beer in the United States[19]. It has won several medals for "American-Style Light Beer" at the Great American Beer Festival[20], and is the official beer sponsor of the NFL and the NFL Network.[21]. In 2006, a "frost brew liner", referring to the "Frost Brewed" branding, was introduced. Coors Light bottles feature a cold temperature sensitive label using Chromazone ink. When the mountains on the label turn blue, the beer is at optimal drinking temperature.

A bottle of Killian's Irish Red.Killian's Irish Red[22] a 4.9% abv dark lager. Coors acquired the rights to brew and market the brand in America from France's Pelforth Brewery in 1981. It was then reformulated to a Vienna lager from the original Irish red ale recipe created at Lett's Brewery in Enniscorthy, Ireland, in 1864.

Blue Moon (Witbier)- a Belgian style wheat ale, created in 1995. 5.4% abv. (made under Blue Moon Brewing Company label)

Keystone is a 4.8% abv pale lager introduced in 1989. The current slogan is "Always Smooth."

Keystone LightKeystone Light is a 4.2% abv pale lager introduced in 1989. Packaged in "specially lined cans" intended to reduce metallic taste. The can is blue and silver and is narrower than a regular 12 ounce can of beer. An advertising campaign starring comedian Bob Marley claimed that Keystone Light relieved "Bitter Beer Face." The current advertising slogan is "Always Smooth, Even When You're Not."[23]

Keystone Ice is packaged in similar cans as Keystone Light, but with black and silver instead of blue. Keystone Ice is 5.9% abv and has 143 calories vs 109 in Keystone Light.
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93Devil · Apr 27, 2009

Bud...

Alcohol by volume
4.9% Budweiser
5.0% Bud Dry
4.2% Bud Light
5.5% Bud Ice
4.1% Bud Ice Light
4.3% Bud Select
4.2% Busch Light
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dreunc1542 · Apr 27, 2009

93Devil said:

JC, the Silver Bullet won't slow you down.

I thought it used to run 1.7 for Coors Light, Ultra, 3.1 for Bud, Coors Miller and 5.2 for Bud Ice, Icehouse, King Cobra and the like.

Like I said, I could be way off base with that, but when I bartended back in the mid-90s, on a slow night we called the numbers on the bottles to find out what we (they) were drinking.
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Yeah, I really don't know where you got that 1.7% number from. As the wiki page shows, most beers are in the 4.2-5.5% range. And anything with Ice in the name usually sucks. Natty and Keystone Ice being the first two that come to mind.

93Devil · Apr 27, 2009

And to go back on topic...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trader_joes

Employees
According to BusinessWeek, Trader Joe's pays above-union wages and generous bonuses. It contributes an additional 15.4% of each worker's gross pay into a company-funded retirement plan. As of 2004, pay for entry-level part-timers was $8 to $10 an hour; first-year supervisors average more than $40,000 a year.[3]

Trader Joe's also offers health insurance benefits (dental, vision, and medical) to part-time employees and their dependents. Part-time employees must work 900 hours per year (an average of 20 hours per week) and be employed for a minimum of three months consecutively to qualify. All part-time employees are evaluated every six months with the possibility of a pay increase. They also receive a 10 percent discount on items bought at the store.[15]

Instead of using PA systems, Trader Joe's employees use a simple bell system to communicate. One bell lets the crew know when to open another register. Two bells means that assistance is needed at the checkout stand. Three bells means that a manager is needed for assistance at the checkout stand.[16]
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93Devil · Apr 27, 2009

dreunc1542 said:

93Devil said:

JC, the Silver Bullet won't slow you down.

I thought it used to run 1.7 for Coors Light, Ultra, 3.1 for Bud, Coors Miller and 5.2 for Bud Ice, Icehouse, King Cobra and the like.

Like I said, I could be way off base with that, but when I bartended back in the mid-90s, on a slow night we called the numbers on the bottles to find out what we (they) were drinking.
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Yeah, I really don't know where you got that 1.7% number from. As the wiki page shows, most beers are in the 4.2-5.5% range. And anything with Ice in the name usually sucks. Natty and Keystone Ice being the first two that come to mind.
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True, but that 1.3 can make a big difference over the course of a couple poppers.

Dyno · Apr 27, 2009

I love Trader Joe's. Their prices are great, they have interesting stuff and the customer service is really good. I agree that in general, the produce sucks, but oddly, all of the TJs near me have good tomatoes.

X-Hack · Apr 27, 2009

I'm pretty sure their "Simpler Times" is actually 6.1 ABV. And it's $3.99 for a sixer of cans and it's not terrible. Also -- better prices on Sierra Nevada and Smuttynose at TJs than you'll see anywhere else, along with the various Ommegang and Magic Hat offerings.

In Mass, there are 3 locations with beer and wine -- Framingham, Cambridge and Brookline (I fortunately live a mile from one of them).

We do about 80 percent of our grocery shopping there -- we go across the way to Whole Foods for fresh fruits and vegetables. All in all we make out a lot cheaper than we did by going to Stop 'n Shop.

But yeah, there's a lot of cooking staple stuff you can't get (jalapenos, bamboo shoots). Also a real shortage of good marinades and salad dressing. And they've got some supply-chain issues where stuff is often out of stock. I guess they think it's part of the charm.

Dyno · Apr 27, 2009

This thread inspired me to go to TJs today and I'm glad I did. The one nearest to my house expanded and it is huge. They had the biggest selection I've ever seen at a Trader Joe's and now carry a few things I used to have to get in other TJs. And now they have beer!

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