Last forum standing?
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 1:56 am
First, there was the mr beer fans forum. It was created because there wasn't a forum dedicated to Mr beer.
Then mr beer started a forum, but the mbf continued.
Mr beer started deleting posts that mentioned competing products. I think they even deleted an entire thread that was almost entirely critical of a competing product. I forget the name, but it was a prehopped DME product that went on deep discount at Cabelas (like half the price of unhopped DME).
I think it was at that point that the beerborg forum started.
Eventually, Mr beer bought mbf, ostensibly to ensure it wouldn't shut down. Then they shut it down a few years later.
When mbf was shut down, most of the refugees resettled here.
When coopers bought mr beer, a group of people started a new company (brew demon). Any mention of that company got deleted from mr beer as well as from mr beer fans. IIRC, if you did a view source, you could still see brew demon, but it didn't show in the rendered page.
Maybe that was when the beerborg forum started. Or it may have been when the giant thread about the hopped DME product got deleted.
The timeline of all of this is a little confusing, at least it is to me.
But anyway, we went from 0 forums to one that was independent, but Mr beer focused. To 2, one of which was owned by Mr beer. To 2 owned by mr beer, but one of which was semi autonomous, to 3, with the new one completely independent. To two, one owned by mr beer (now owned by coopers) and one completely independent.
Recently, Mr beer has been focusing on Facebook and ignoring their forum.
Since some time on Sunday, if you go to the mr beer forum page, it says the community is not available. And the main Mr beer page no longer has a link to forums.
So I think we're the last mr beer related forum that still exists. And we're not as mr beer oriented as we used to be.
I wonder if any of the remaining mr beer forum folks will find their way here.
Then mr beer started a forum, but the mbf continued.
Mr beer started deleting posts that mentioned competing products. I think they even deleted an entire thread that was almost entirely critical of a competing product. I forget the name, but it was a prehopped DME product that went on deep discount at Cabelas (like half the price of unhopped DME).
I think it was at that point that the beerborg forum started.
Eventually, Mr beer bought mbf, ostensibly to ensure it wouldn't shut down. Then they shut it down a few years later.
When mbf was shut down, most of the refugees resettled here.
When coopers bought mr beer, a group of people started a new company (brew demon). Any mention of that company got deleted from mr beer as well as from mr beer fans. IIRC, if you did a view source, you could still see brew demon, but it didn't show in the rendered page.
Maybe that was when the beerborg forum started. Or it may have been when the giant thread about the hopped DME product got deleted.
The timeline of all of this is a little confusing, at least it is to me.
But anyway, we went from 0 forums to one that was independent, but Mr beer focused. To 2, one of which was owned by Mr beer. To 2 owned by mr beer, but one of which was semi autonomous, to 3, with the new one completely independent. To two, one owned by mr beer (now owned by coopers) and one completely independent.
Recently, Mr beer has been focusing on Facebook and ignoring their forum.
Since some time on Sunday, if you go to the mr beer forum page, it says the community is not available. And the main Mr beer page no longer has a link to forums.
So I think we're the last mr beer related forum that still exists. And we're not as mr beer oriented as we used to be.
I wonder if any of the remaining mr beer forum folks will find their way here.
