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You see this a lot with Monkish cans. A lot of people that trade Monkish cans ask for ridiculous/unreasonable ratios (3:1, 4:1, etc). In a sense I get it though. Most Monkish releases allow customers to walk way with about 8 cans, whereas breweries like Other Half allow customers to walk away with 4 cases of beer every release. I'd be a little choosy about what I was accepting if I could only acquire that many cans after putting in that much time and energy.Sidenote: I love it when people treat beer like....beer and not investments. Certainly there are exceptions (prime example being OH x Monkish) but cats were trying to do one shake for two aslin cans locally
Funny, though. Monkish did a tap takeover at Other Half on Friday and while it was a mad house there, it seemed like the general consensus was that the beers were all extremely similar to Other Half's regular offerings and that people didn't think they were worth going crazy over. I always figured the hype was based more off of the fact that the west coast still isn't totally up to spec when it comes to hazy/NE-style IPAs as the east coast is, and a lot of the feedback I was reading confirmed that opinion. That's not to say Monkish doesn't brew great beer, though. I've enjoyed every collab I've had from them. Just not too sure how distinguishable they are from the rest of the crowd.