Hop Availability Forces Alaskan Brewing to Discontinue Alaskan Pale Ale

Does anyone know if any of their beers resemble their old "Frontier"? That shit was awesome!

 

Wouldn't it have been easier just to say that they're discontinuing it so they can more easily promote their new freeride APA?

Trying to argue that you're cutting your old-school pale ale because of a lack of hops, but then aggressively promoting your all new APA at the same time, just makes this ring a bit disingenuous.

 

The fuck are you even talking about? They're discontinuing it because they can't get the hops that they've been using since 1987 to brew the beer. They're two totally different styles. It has nothing to do with promoting the APA, they literally won't be able to brew the beer any more. So no, it wouldn't be easier to say that they're discontinuing it to more easily promote Freeride because that's not what's happening at all. And the last time I checked, one paragraph at the end of a press release isn't what I would call "agressive."