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re: The Cove Re Opened apparently
Posted by mrjduke on 5/14/19 at 10:35 pm to whatiknowsofar
I'll give them a check out.
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re: Parish now selling $24 4 packs
Posted by mrjduke on 4/16/19 at 10:02 am to AbitaFan08
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You’d lose that bet.
Probablyyyy so
Man, I'm genuinely sorry this became a thing... I think I have an ok idea of how much it costs to build/open/operate food/drink service establishments. I do also think they have a huge, significant advantage with 100% of their sales being sales at their own establishments. Profit margins are significantly higher, obviously. Plus, their doing that type of sales with the same or more production levels as Parish. At that rate, you can do whatever you want wherever you want. Parish would love to have triple the profit margin on the majority of the beer they brew. But, that's just a major advantage of operating in a highly more populated area. It's comparing apples to oranges. My only and original point, that I never thought would have me googling real estate prices in Broussard or Massachusetts, was that for the quality of the beer anticipated inside plus Other Half on the label, I didn't think $6/can was unfair with it being one of the biggest releases in the history of Louisiana. I get a lot of people disagree, and I'm sorry that this has become an out of left field argument. Literally this morning woke up and said dammit, why the eff did I post on TD last night.
re: Parish now selling $24 4 packs
Posted by mrjduke on 4/16/19 at 9:49 am to AbitaFan08
Is the seaport location the expanded fort point w/restaurant location? Genuinely just asking.
Fenway = not open
Beer garden = not currently open
Farm = not open
Expanded fort point = just recently opened
Canton = has been open
So, even currently with the expanded fort point open, I would be willing to bet that 75-80% of their beer to go sales happens at the canton location. What about that makes it invalid?
Beer garden = not currently open
Farm = not open
Expanded fort point = just recently opened
Canton = has been open
So, even currently with the expanded fort point open, I would be willing to bet that 75-80% of their beer to go sales happens at the canton location. What about that makes it invalid?
re: Parish now selling $24 4 packs
Posted by mrjduke on 4/16/19 at 9:40 am to Tiger Ryno
I wish I could trade my life story for 90k TD posts
I'm not hating on Trillium, or at least don't want to. Actually, in reverse, I got in a debate recently at Parish defending Trillium and their negative press taking the side of the business owner. My point simply was that the price per sq ft for the warehouse at Trillium Canton is probably not too far off from the price per sq ft for the warehouse in Broussard. I looked it up and it's about $0.25-0.50/sq ft more for Canton. Could be significant when you get into some of these gigantic sized warehouse spaces. But, Trillium also sells 100% of their beer out of the brewery. It would slow down their expansions a little bit if their majority of their sells were coming at the brewery to distributor price point. Parish does brewery sales 10x a year like someone such as Tree House does daily with their constant 200+ people in line. Just give them their day. And I love Boston. One of my favorite cities. Actually named my son Boston. True story. Only knock on Boston is the ok bar scene. With liquor licenses running a mill plus, it will stay that way until they increase the number issued for the first time since prohibition ending.
re: Parish now selling $24 4 packs
Posted by mrjduke on 4/16/19 at 8:36 am to Matisyeezy
Ain't nobody trading Ghost Diamonds for Congress St or Haze, I promise... Juice Machine released recently and I could see people trading these 1 for 1. I wouldn't trade these for anything less than Heavy Mettle or a surprise drop of a Headroom or something like that from Trillium. They are not going to trade at their $6 cost.
I literally lol'ed at prime real estate costs. I went several times to the original Trillium Fort Point location, before Canton and when it was literally just a counter with no on site consumption, the entrance was a door in an alley and they were slinging the shite out of 750ml ipas at like $12/each. Since then, I've been to Canton several times. I can imagine the industrial warehouse real estate market isn't too far from Broussard. It has looked hardly in demand. Every day Trillium has lines for people to spend $22/4 pack on their regular dipas that I wouldn't trade regular ghost for.
First time I went to Tree House was before they had printed cans. Been back like six times since. I got married in Vermont and had a keg of Edward at the reception. Been to HF for Zwanze and for FoFA. I understand NEW ENGLAND beer, I promise. Hell, I traded a vanilla rye in like 2014 for bottles of the first release of ddh fort point and cans of one of the early Julius releases. I still judge the shite out of myself for that one... Lol.
So, anyway, value is all relative. I'm excited to spend $6/can on what will most likely be a killer beer collabed with a brewery I love to visit and never ever thought would come to Louisiana to brew a collab beer. I'm excited. I totally understand people that take the other side. The costs add up verrrrryyyy quickly. But, literally no one can hate on Parish for any reason other than spite. They sold 50% of the beer brewed in two min. With 5 minutes they could have sold 100%. I don't find the price disproportionate to what you're getting. It's dumb to compare it to just other local beers. All biases aside, it should be compared to a big release from a TH or Trill or Monkish, etc. I got one four pack because the stupid cart wouldn't update lol. Saturday will be fun, though. But, the points made comparing this to Boston were pretty off and just throwing shite at the wall hoping it would stick.
I literally lol'ed at prime real estate costs. I went several times to the original Trillium Fort Point location, before Canton and when it was literally just a counter with no on site consumption, the entrance was a door in an alley and they were slinging the shite out of 750ml ipas at like $12/each. Since then, I've been to Canton several times. I can imagine the industrial warehouse real estate market isn't too far from Broussard. It has looked hardly in demand. Every day Trillium has lines for people to spend $22/4 pack on their regular dipas that I wouldn't trade regular ghost for.
First time I went to Tree House was before they had printed cans. Been back like six times since. I got married in Vermont and had a keg of Edward at the reception. Been to HF for Zwanze and for FoFA. I understand NEW ENGLAND beer, I promise. Hell, I traded a vanilla rye in like 2014 for bottles of the first release of ddh fort point and cans of one of the early Julius releases. I still judge the shite out of myself for that one... Lol.
So, anyway, value is all relative. I'm excited to spend $6/can on what will most likely be a killer beer collabed with a brewery I love to visit and never ever thought would come to Louisiana to brew a collab beer. I'm excited. I totally understand people that take the other side. The costs add up verrrrryyyy quickly. But, literally no one can hate on Parish for any reason other than spite. They sold 50% of the beer brewed in two min. With 5 minutes they could have sold 100%. I don't find the price disproportionate to what you're getting. It's dumb to compare it to just other local beers. All biases aside, it should be compared to a big release from a TH or Trill or Monkish, etc. I got one four pack because the stupid cart wouldn't update lol. Saturday will be fun, though. But, the points made comparing this to Boston were pretty off and just throwing shite at the wall hoping it would stick.
re: Parish now selling $24 4 packs
Posted by mrjduke on 4/15/19 at 11:05 pm to Matisyeezy
And also, I don’t tick beers.
re: Parish now selling $24 4 packs
Posted by mrjduke on 4/15/19 at 11:03 pm to Matisyeezy
Once you start just grabbing a jucifer or ghost off the shelf and settling on that (and I say that as someone that has ghost on draft at their house), I feel like you start missing an aspect of what initially made this craft beer game fun. I have this conversation with some buddies all the time about some of the fun being taken out of the game by people just throwing money at everything. There was a time when money didn’t matter and the hunt for the beer was part of the fun. When drinking the beer was more than the beer, but also an experience. I’ll be out there Saturday ready to drink lots of overpriced beer with great friends and enjoy every second of it.
re: Worst cocktail blunder you ever experienced
Posted by mrjduke on 3/12/19 at 8:29 pm to BrohemAlem11
Simple rule for shaken vs stirred:
Any cocktail with any juice, syrup, herbs or fruit should be shaken.
Any cocktail where all ingredients are spirit based should be stirred.
The only real reason for shaking is when you have ingredients of different viscosities to get them to come together better. Any time you shake a cocktail, you should double strain with a mesh strainer simply to catch small ice chips. 50 small ice chips become 1/4-1/2 oz of water and you wouldn't otherwise want to add that much water to the drink after making it.
Any cocktail with any juice, syrup, herbs or fruit should be shaken.
Any cocktail where all ingredients are spirit based should be stirred.
The only real reason for shaking is when you have ingredients of different viscosities to get them to come together better. Any time you shake a cocktail, you should double strain with a mesh strainer simply to catch small ice chips. 50 small ice chips become 1/4-1/2 oz of water and you wouldn't otherwise want to add that much water to the drink after making it.
Andrew is a good dude, and a smart dude. His willingness to be the main voice, but listen and respect other voices is the reason that it’s crazy that the truth is they’re just getting started.
Coolest cocktail bar in the United States is The Noble Experiment downtown. Will require reservations.
For beer, see if Horus is doing any releases while you’re there. The Modern Times Point Loma location has to be the #1 destination. Amazing beer available at the brewery and amazing beer to go. BA stouts, sours, ipas, everything. Abnormal has kickass food and delicious beers. Ballast Point usually has BA Victory at Seas on.
Cheers!
For beer, see if Horus is doing any releases while you’re there. The Modern Times Point Loma location has to be the #1 destination. Amazing beer available at the brewery and amazing beer to go. BA stouts, sours, ipas, everything. Abnormal has kickass food and delicious beers. Ballast Point usually has BA Victory at Seas on.
Cheers!
Anyone who doesn’t consider Ali an all-time great athlete, especially considering he lost a lot of his prime years, is probably a LeBron fan.
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that's actually one of the worst i've had. it had so much simple syrup in it the drink was pink.
We (Olive or Twist) sell on average ~1500 Old Fashioneds per week. 2nd or 3rd most popular drink we sell. Too much simple syrup would most likely mean the bartender was in a hurry or being lazy and didn’t use the jigger and hit the squeeze bottle too long. Recipe only calls for 1/2 to 3/4 oz depending if you order the classic or the modern. Some bartenders we just literally have to beat the idea of using the jigger into their head. Sorry yours was too sweet... Would be happy to buy a round of old fashioneds, if ever given the opportunity. J
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-Bitters, orange bitters, etc.
Get bitters off Amazon. 1000s of choices. Free shipping.
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-Vermouth
As I type, I'm sitting 2-3 ft from ~18 different vermouths. Do research. Don't go cheap on vermouth. I mean, Dolin is cheap and it would be my main rec for go to vermouth. No Martini & Rossi. No Gallo. No Noilly Prat. If you got Carpano Antica money go for it. Dolin is great and cheap. Cocchi Vermouth di Torino is great. If you got Cocchi Barolo Chinato money, then gotta give it a try. Added a new depth that's amazing. All of these, except maybe the Chinato, are common and delicious.
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-Simple syrup, sugar cubes
Always make your own simple syrup. Someone mentioned 1 to 1 and that's all you need to know. 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of water, for example. Ignore websites that say cook it on the stove. Microwave it for 3 min, stir and you're ready to go. And, the best thing to learn about cocktails is to treat them like a chef treats food. Look for flavors you like, whether it's herbs, spices, fruits, substituting the water with something flavored, etc. and add these things to syrups to create new dynamics to your cocktails.
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-Highball glasses, martini glasses
If you're in Baton Rouge, stop by Ducote's. Cheap in person shopping could be Tuesday Morning or Kohls or World Market is great. Expensive in person shopping would be Sur la Table or Williams Sonoma. Online check out Amazon or Webstaurantstore. All of the glassware you could imagine on webstaurantstore. Cocktail Kingdom has legit glassware, also.
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-Shakers
If you want to do it right, Cocktail Kingdom is the only way to go. Period. Lots of choices on Amazon. Lots and lots of choices on Webstaurantstore. Can't go wrong with any of those. You need a good big and small shaker, a Hawthorne strainer with prongs and a mesh strainer to double strain. The Yarai (mixing glass), spoon and Julep strainer are necessities for stirred cocktails.
Hope this helps and have fun. Cheers!
How has Will Ferrell not been mentioned yet?
Terrible, one dimensional actor.
Terrible, one dimensional actor.
re: Where is the BEST place to get King Cake in the BR area?
Posted by mrjduke on 1/30/19 at 11:00 pm to mrPresident
Has anyone mentioned Calandros yet? They’re my favorite. Mississippi Mud allllll day. King Cakes will forever not be king cakes without Oreos, marshmallows and chocolate.
Scoop my email from somewhere, and I have brioche buns and brioche loaves to spare after restaurant week. They are fresh baked by America’s favorite bakery, Sysco. Might be a joke, sorta, but they’re delicious. And, are reasonably priced and can order anytime, if you want them.
re: Bartender School
Posted by mrjduke on 1/29/19 at 10:52 pm to Missouri Waltz
Don’t waste money on bartending school... like someone said, watch YouTube videos. Buy quality ingredients, and not just the spirits. A great cocktail is one where all ingredients are quality, not just the spirit. Fresh juices, herbs, not shite vermouth, etc. Start with something you like to drink. Watch videos to learn to make it yourself. I always tell people, approach drinks like food. If you like to cook, you have an idea of how flavors work together. Take a cocktail you like and think of flavors you’re familiar with that would add new depth or characteristics to the cocktail. Go to local bars and ask the bartenders to make a twist on the drink and see what they do. An easy thing for home bartenders are simple syrups. Do some googling on how to make different syrups to add different elements to drinks. You can literally make a syrup easily out of anything you have at home. Get a jigger and keep track of what you put into drinks to where you can adjust recipes based off what you like and don’t like. Just have fun. Make drinks. Drink them. Make more drinks.
If you do want to bartend, don’t go to bartending school and apply for barback jobs.
If you want to learn to make cosmos, go to bartending school.
If you do want to bartend, don’t go to bartending school and apply for barback jobs.
If you want to learn to make cosmos, go to bartending school.
I feel ya, man. I also just bought an oldish home with a similar two panels, one on each side. I consider myself a hobby electrician (...yeah, lol) and none of the wiring makes sense to me. For example, there’s four lights in the dining area and no shite, it takes three different switches to turn on the four lights. Similar situation in the living area. Doesn’t make sense.. I also took off both of the panels and there were several breakers flipped on with nothing wired to them. Probably the strangest is the air handler has a plug wired onto it and is plugged into a regular 15 or 20 amp receptacle. Don’t know which because, well, all I had to do was unplug it to wire a new thermostat haha have never seen that.
Yeah, Apple will be the first to go!!
-sent from my iPhone XS Max (Coolest tech I’ve ever owned)
-edited from my iPad pro but left it the same
-thought about editing from my ballin custom built iMac but left it the same
-left for work and decided to edit small things on the post on my custom built MacBook Pro
-listened to music on my AirPods the entire time
-got to work and had to reboot the PC as soon as I got there to cross my fingers Windows would work:
Summary: Apple is poop. PCs will save the world.
-sent from my iPhone XS Max (Coolest tech I’ve ever owned)
-edited from my iPad pro but left it the same
-thought about editing from my ballin custom built iMac but left it the same
-left for work and decided to edit small things on the post on my custom built MacBook Pro
-listened to music on my AirPods the entire time
-got to work and had to reboot the PC as soon as I got there to cross my fingers Windows would work:
Summary: Apple is poop. PCs will save the world.
Hertz. Sign up for Gold. It’s free and is game changing.
re: The OT’s favorite club, owned by one of the OT’s favorite d-bags is closing
Posted by mrjduke on 8/31/18 at 2:01 pm to ThanosIsADemocrat
I'm not mad. I had already heard there was a rumor going around from one of my best friends and was just going to let it go and die by still being open a year from now rather than addressing it on Facebook or somewhere. Addressing it on TD is much easier than Facebook lol. I'm not surprised any rumors started, either.. You make drastic changes and people will wonder why/talk about it. It becomes like the game you play as a kid where you whisper a secret in an ear and go around the room and then see what the secret is by the time it's done going around.
We haven't figured out Restaurant Week... Not surprised you've had issues, and I'm sorry. Issue is prep and wish we could hire people just for a week, because we have so many issues keeping up and maintaining quality and ticket times and well, everything. All of the chefs we've had hate restaurant week, as I'm sure most do, and even though they bust their butts, it just has seemed like it wasn't enough for the 3-4 times we've participated.
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rowbear1922
We haven't figured out Restaurant Week... Not surprised you've had issues, and I'm sorry. Issue is prep and wish we could hire people just for a week, because we have so many issues keeping up and maintaining quality and ticket times and well, everything. All of the chefs we've had hate restaurant week, as I'm sure most do, and even though they bust their butts, it just has seemed like it wasn't enough for the 3-4 times we've participated.
re: The OT’s favorite club, owned by one of the OT’s favorite d-bags is closing
Posted by mrjduke on 8/31/18 at 1:13 pm to LSU fan 246
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Jones
Literally don't disagree with anything you said.
More on the AC situation, I've thought the restaurant side AC was not suitable for high occupancy since it was there before us, but AC people have said it's fine. Also, the bar side AC didn't originally have an open kitchen below it and the restaurant side AC didn't originally have walk in cooler refrigeration next to it. Unfortunately, I was an idiot never thought about that... Like I said, it's been a nightmare. Can't wait for it to cool down lol. And, we'll regroup for warm months for next summer.
I couldn't agree more with the backbar situation. You have no idea. Drives me insane. Just way way way too much shite. Try to do too much. Part of it is busy sometimes and a lot of it is too much shite. Working on that.
And for Sunday brunches it's a crazy rock and a hard place situation. We do Friday night sales for brunch every week and I like money. I thought it would get better getting rid of bottomless mimosa cocktails. Stopped allowing mimosas in wine glasses. Thought it would get better raising prices on popular food items. Still a shite show every Sunday. Staff hates it. I puss out and avoid it (I'll always be there now). But, we still have 50-60 people there every week waiting for us to unlock the door. Like I said, rock and a hard place situation.
re: The OT’s favorite club, owned by one of the OT’s favorite d-bags is closing
Posted by mrjduke on 8/31/18 at 12:16 pm to LSU fan 246
Olive or Twist isn't going anywhere. Sales are 5x what they were before the expansion. We don't have financial problems, we had labor problems. Just paid a $12k audit from our Worker's Comp policy for having $200k over estimated labor costs for the policy year. And paying that was not a big deal. Sales jumped a lot, and so did costs. I was ready to take back over day to day operations, this has been my first week doing so and I'm excited to be doing it again. I'm not sure how me making tough decisions to get labor costs under control turned into tax issues and we're in financial ruins, but I'm just trying to get things back on track. Let managers go just so I could get back in control and figure out what's going on and why our profit margin has gone to shite.
For the AC concerns, it was recommended to us to have 8 tons of AC, we have 10 tons and it literally has been a nightmare trying to figure out what to do about it. It's shoulder to shoulder 3-4 nights a week and every Sunday brunch and it just can't keep up with the door constantly opening and closing. There was no room to add AC in the back of the space, but have gotten approval from property management to add 2x 3 ton AC splits to the front of the building. Hopefully, 16 tons of AC will be able to keep up. Unfortunately, it will be too little too late for this summer.
And for the last comment, even though we're typically 75% female clientele, we welcome dudes holding hands drinking girly drinks, women holding hands drinking manly drinks or singles and straight couples hanging out drinking whatever they want to drink.
For the AC concerns, it was recommended to us to have 8 tons of AC, we have 10 tons and it literally has been a nightmare trying to figure out what to do about it. It's shoulder to shoulder 3-4 nights a week and every Sunday brunch and it just can't keep up with the door constantly opening and closing. There was no room to add AC in the back of the space, but have gotten approval from property management to add 2x 3 ton AC splits to the front of the building. Hopefully, 16 tons of AC will be able to keep up. Unfortunately, it will be too little too late for this summer.
And for the last comment, even though we're typically 75% female clientele, we welcome dudes holding hands drinking girly drinks, women holding hands drinking manly drinks or singles and straight couples hanging out drinking whatever they want to drink.
re: Corporate Brew & Draft closing this weekend
Posted by mrjduke on 7/27/18 at 8:16 pm to ThanosIsADemocrat
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Or Olive or Twist's fake yuppie hipster nonsense.
Untappd vs BeerMenus vs TapHunter
Posted by mrjduke on 7/27/18 at 1:03 pm
My bar/restaurant is currently signed up on Beermenus for our beer list, but I personally use Untappd when I go places to see which beers are available. Just wondering what everyone else uses most frequently, or enjoys using the most. Thanks!
Yes sir, it's there Tues-Sun same hours as Tin Roof
re: Why did Chick-n-Grill at LSU close?
Posted by mrjduke on 3/29/18 at 7:27 am to Cap Crunch
CEBA shack was dead to me when they replaced Pizza Hut with Papa Johns. Poor college student ballin on a budget wasting away in CEBA and the $2 5 piece breadsticks would be lunch and dinner sometimes.
Similar to the sock, I have a boot my podiatrist gave me to sleep in that pulls the toes upward to stretch out tendons. Works wonders. I’d look on amazon or somewhere for one of those.
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