The Beer Thread

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:
Anybody going to Churchkey tomorrow for the CBS/KBS/bunch of other Founders beers tapping?

No.

I have a kid related holiday potluck party to go to a couple hours later. Seems like i should definitely have some CBS before that. Maybe even BCBS  too if it's still on draft at P Street.

Space wrote:
Anybody going to Churchkey tomorrow for the CBS/KBS/bunch of other Founders beers tapping?

Also no.

so, is anyone making any efforts to snag some CBS tomorrow?

i just got word that my local BevMo will be getting a case, so imma gunno roll the dice on a mid-morning fly-by.  this beer has been my white whale for years.  MUST HAVE (or, at least, would really really really like to try it…)

SPACE ADVISORY: per Founder's website, the 22 oz bottles have a suggested retail price of $24.99.

sweetcell wrote:
so, is anyone making any efforts to snag some CBS tomorrow?

i just got word that my local BevMo will be getting a case, so imma gunno roll the dice on a mid-morning fly-by.  this beer has been my white whale for years.  MUST HAVE (or, at least, would really really really like to try it…)

SPACE ADVISORY: per Founder's website, the 22 oz bottles have a suggested retail price of $24.99.

Suggested price $25 but they're asking $30 at Craft Beer Cellar and Total Wine Probably the same elsewhere around here as Total Wine is usually the cheapest. Still might try to snag a bottle. One bottle. The again my wife hates that kind of beer and who really needs more than a small pour so i figure a pour at Churchkey *might* be under $30.

I think there's a lot more of it this time around. Last time it was out I had to win a lottery at Whole Foods just to get a chance at buying a single bottle.

since moving to the pacific northwest, i've been mainlining IPAs - no surprise there.  of all the IPAs i've had, Fremont Lush is my currently-available favorite.  this is their top-shelf IPA, vs. their "regular" Interurban IPA (which ain't no slouch either).  Lush is typically $2-3 more per sixer and it's soooo worth it.  it's the first beer that i've drank, that i'm aware of, that uses lupulin powder (AKA "hop hash").  the stuff is new, and expensive, but damn does it bring the hop characteristics! 

an amazing series that Fremont did during hop harvest season was Field to Ferment, probably the best fresh hop/wet hop/harvest ale i've ever had.  they did three rounds of it, apparently reflecting the different harvest dates: Centennial, Amarillo, and Citra.  the Citra was mind-blowing, i think i went through 7 or 8 packs while it was available back in sept/oct - for a month and a half it was all that i drank.  can't wait for it to come back next year.

i've been getting some less-than-a-week-old Fresh Squeezed, from Deschutes.  i would like to remind every one that this beer is damn, damn fine.  like Lush, it features Citra and Mosaic hops - a killer combo. 

speaking of Deschutes, i'd suggest avoiding their Hopzeit Autumn IPA.  the concept ("make a german IPA") is way more interesting than the reality.

sweetcell wrote:
so, is anyone making any efforts to snag some CBS tomorrow?

Have, sadly, never even seen a bottle of it. Would try to snag one but I'm sure as soon as I'd  head out around lunch they'll be long gone.

StoneTheCrow wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
so, is anyone making any efforts to snag some CBS tomorrow?

Have, sadly, never even seen a bottle of it. Would try to snag one but I'm sure as soon as I'd  head out around lunch they'll be long gone.

Craft Beer Cellar is selling bottles to the first 36 customers starting at noon tomorrow. So there's that, if you're able. I actually work a 10 minute walk from there. but can't get one because they don't let me bring beer into work…

Wouldn't there be 36 lined up by 7am, though?

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Wouldn't there be 36 lined up by 7am, though?

I don't know. Are there really 36 people in DC who would line up for five hours in the freezing cold to get a single bottle of beer that costs $30?

Honestly, my strategy for something like this is to find a store that doesn't advertise their shipments on their social media page.

Space wrote:
Honestly, my strategy for something like this is to find a store that doesn't advertise their shipments on their social media page.

"Effort and luck" is the strategy of the poor. In Julian's America, we wait until the secondary market declares the items true value, then send our agent to go purchase it away from street urchins who are more concerned with putting food on their tablets than putting elite beer in their gullets. Its called gentrification. We'd gentrify the hell out of that beer.

Two other not to be overlooked barrel aged stouts out in VA today…

BA Ten Fidy, ~$13/19 oz can
Victory Java Cask ~$30/4 pack

Damn these prices are getting crazy.

Space wrote:
Two other not to be overlooked barrel aged stouts out in VA today…

BA Ten Fidy, ~$13/19 oz can
Victory Java Cask ~$30/4 pack

Damn these prices are getting crazy.

BA Ted Fidy has been that price for years.

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:
Two other not to be overlooked barrel aged stouts out in VA today…

BA Ten Fidy, ~$13/19 oz can
Victory Java Cask ~$30/4 pack

Damn these prices are getting crazy.

BA Ted Fidy has been that price for years.

"Years?" That beer wasn't even distributed until 2015.

But I was just making a general observation about the rising cost of premium craft beer.

I just called my local Total Wine, and they said the supply survived the initial opening rush. Seems like there's just way more of this beer this time out.

Space wrote:

I don't know. Are there really 36 people in DC who would line up for five hours in the freezing cold to get a single bottle of beer that costs $30?

Honestly, my strategy for something like this is to find a store that doesn't advertise their shipments on their social media page.

I believe there are at least 40. :D

Your point about social media is a good one. Calvert Woodley announced it on twitter and sold their entire allotment almost immediately.

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:
Two other not to be overlooked barrel aged stouts out in VA today…

BA Ten Fidy, ~$13/19 oz can
Victory Java Cask ~$30/4 pack

Damn these prices are getting crazy.

BA Ted Fidy has been that price for years.

"Years?" That beer wasn't even distributed until 2015.

But I was just making a general observation about the rising cost of premium craft beer.

Yes, years. The past two.

Pretty sure this stuff is flowing like water accross the DMV.

sweets… you're losing your edge in your old age/retirement to the west coast.

lupulin powder has been pretty prevalent in most of the east coast "hop" breweries for quite some time.

StoneTheCrow wrote:

Space wrote:

I don't know. Are there really 36 people in DC who would line up for five hours in the freezing cold to get a single bottle of beer that costs $30?

Honestly, my strategy for something like this is to find a store that doesn't advertise their shipments on their social media page.

I believe there are at least 40. :D

Your point about social media is a good one. Calvert Woodley announced it on twitter and sold their entire allotment almost immediately.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcKpxF_Fsmn/?taken-by=cbc_dc

Indeed a line at noon.

Yada wrote:
lupulin powder has been pretty prevalent in most of the east coast "hop" breweries for quite some time.

not sure where you're getting your info, brah, but lupulin powder is about a year old.  YCH first released it, on a very limited basis, about this time last year - AKA after the 2016 hop harvest.  it wasn't widely available for breweries until late winter/early spring this year.  it's just starting to be available for homebrewers, but just barely. 

sweetcell wrote:

Yada wrote:
lupulin powder has been pretty prevalent in most of the east coast "hop" breweries for quite some time.

not sure where you're getting your info, brah, but lupulin powder is about a year old.  YCH first released it, on a very limited basis, about this time last year - AKA after the 2016 hop harvest.  it wasn't widely available for breweries until late winter/early spring this year.  it's just starting to be available for homebrewers, but just barely.

I'm not getting info anywhere,  basing it on experience of drinking beers with it recently. A year is probably accurate but at least around these parts I've had approximately 8 to 10 breweries that have used it.