Yada wrote:
Space wrote:
Some people bring clothing in their suitcase. i brought back these:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BfcSGErhHhF/
You could have easily broken down the Space/Cost ratio to realize that you could've picked up those shelf turding Cascade sours at multiple places in DC. Should've double downed on De Garde and RR.
The Cascade Apricot was purchased *after* security at the airport. $22+no tax ($20 at the Barrel House) compared to $31+tax at my local Whole Foods. So it did not detract from Russian River or de Garde purchases. I should have bought more Cascade after security.
The Sang Noir was $25+ no tax, purchased at the Barrel House, which I'm guessing is significantly cheaper than any stores in this area. And I don't see it listed on Total Wine's website. So I'm not even sure that one, which was my favorite Cascade and better than the de Garde beers I drank from the tap, is available locally. And purchased *before* I knew for sure what they were going to have at de Garde (at the time, they were just listing four varieties of their Gose, and I'll take the Sang Noir over a gose any day.)
I do wish I had gotten more of the Russian River, but at the time I came across it, it was my first beer purchase, so I was saving myself for other possibilities. Plus, I wanted to leave one of each on the shelf for the next guy. I *did* pick up *three* Supplications and *two* Consecrations, they're just not all visible. As it turns out, I might have had room for a couple more bottles at the end, but I would have had to drive back to a grocery store in Portland after driving over a mountain through a blinding snowstorm in my Hyundai Accent rental, ignoring the flashing warnings to please have chain tires on your SUV just to get to de Garde. And even if I did go back to the grocery store, it's probable that they would have been sold out.