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  • Jearlpam0925Jearlpam0925 Posts: 17,038
    That's a hell of a buddy!
  • lmckenney24lmckenney24 Posts: 1,990
    Jearlpam0925 said:
    That's a hell of a buddy!
    Indeed. It's our yearly beer exchange. Normally he mixes it up, but did all MBC this year. I'm not complaining lol
  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Posts: 10,767
    lmckenney24 said:
    Yearly pre-thanksgiving shipment from my buddy. Unfortunately, no Dinner avaliable but this will do.
    Oddly enough I pick up Maine whenever I'm in Colorado
  • lmckenney24lmckenney24 Posts: 1,990
    Bentleyspop said:
    lmckenney24 said:
    Yearly pre-thanksgiving shipment from my buddy. Unfortunately, no Dinner avaliable but this will do.
    Oddly enough I pick up Maine whenever I'm in Colorado
    Your able to get it there? Lucky man! Lot of the beers I enjoyed when I lived in Boston don't distribute down here. Good to have friends haha.
  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Posts: 10,767
    lmckenney24 said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    lmckenney24 said:
    Yearly pre-thanksgiving shipment from my buddy. Unfortunately, no Dinner avaliable but this will do.
    Oddly enough I pick up Maine whenever I'm in Colorado
    Your able to get it there? Lucky man! Lot of the beers I enjoyed when I lived in Boston don't distribute down here. Good to have friends haha.
    There's a distributor that brings some of the well known beers from the Northeast into Colorado periodically. And some from the Northwest as well 
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,355
    lmckenney24 said:
    Yearly pre-thanksgiving shipment from my buddy. Unfortunately, no Dinner avaliable but this will do.
    Lunch has always been a fav of mine!
  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Posts: 10,767
    Just picked up my allocation....


  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,168
    Bentleyspop said:
    Just picked up my allocation....


    Nice and early. 

    Excited to pick these up but the lineup is nowhere near my favorite (on paper at least). 
    severed hand thirteen
    2006: Gorge 7/23 2008: Hartford 6/27 Beacon 7/1 2009: Spectrum 10/30-31
    2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
    2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
    2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
    2017: RRHoF 4/7   2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4   2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18 
    2022: MSG 9/11  2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
  • Glorified KCGlorified KC Posts: 2,672
    Good stuff from my hometown Boulevard.  They have gotten a really nice spread of imperials.
    I wish I was a sacrifice, but somehow still lived on.
  • lmckenney24lmckenney24 Posts: 1,990
    Big day of football. Enjoy!
  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,168
    Local shops didn’t have the BCBS barleywine. Wasn’t willing to drive half an hour for it. Had the base last night and it’s great. Picking up a few more. 
    severed hand thirteen
    2006: Gorge 7/23 2008: Hartford 6/27 Beacon 7/1 2009: Spectrum 10/30-31
    2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
    2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
    2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
    2017: RRHoF 4/7   2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4   2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18 
    2022: MSG 9/11  2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
  • Indifference71Indifference71 Posts: 14,844
    Bentleyspop said:
    Just picked up my allocation....


    So much of it out there this year.  All the variants were still available at a local grocery store yesterday.  Had the Prop the other night and really liked it....can't go wrong with coconut in a BA stout.  30 year and Barleywine seem to be getting great reviews.
  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Posts: 10,767
    Indifference71 said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    Just picked up my allocation....


    So much of it out there this year.  All the variants were still available at a local grocery store yesterday.  Had the Prop the other night and really liked it....can't go wrong with coconut in a BA stout.  30 year and Barleywine seem to be getting great reviews.
    We sold out of everything but the regular Stout and the coffee.
    People don't  need to work hard to get these anymore.
    If In/Bev isn't careful BCBS will become ubiquitous and sit for months on shelves because no one will care anymore.
  • tbergstbergs Posts: 9,810
    Who's excited for advent?

    It's a hopeless situation...
  • tbergstbergs Posts: 9,810
    First selection:

    It's a hopeless situation...
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,174
    A little IPA selection…


    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
  • lmckenney24lmckenney24 Posts: 1,990
    Cheers! Easy drinking, and damn good!!!!
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,462
    Wobbie said:
    A little IPA selection…


    Hazy little thing. Yum
  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,908
    Loujoe said:
    Wobbie said:
    A little IPA selection…


    Hazy little thing. Yum
    Yeah that's a go-to of mine. 
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  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,174
    Loujoe said:
    Wobbie said:
    A little IPA selection…


    Hazy little thing. Yum
    sorry I didn’t do the beer porn thing and photograph them all in fancy glasses.
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,355
    Bentleyspop said:
    Indifference71 said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    Just picked up my allocation....


    So much of it out there this year.  All the variants were still available at a local grocery store yesterday.  Had the Prop the other night and really liked it....can't go wrong with coconut in a BA stout.  30 year and Barleywine seem to be getting great reviews.
    We sold out of everything but the regular Stout and the coffee.
    People don't  need to work hard to get these anymore.
    If In/Bev isn't careful BCBS will become ubiquitous and sit for months on shelves because no one will care anymore.
    Because of their ridiculous prices last year I didn't buy any of it.   First time ever.  Multiple beers were over $75.  I think I paid that much for the Rare 7 years ago.

    This year the prices were better but still sucked.  I paid $55 for the 30th.
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,355
    The Bigfoot was a gift from my local. I asked him about this a few months ago and hooked me up w it. Only 24 bottles reached longisland and I have one. 
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,355
    Indifference71 said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    Just picked up my allocation....


    So much of it out there this year.  All the variants were still available at a local grocery store yesterday.  Had the Prop the other night and really liked it....can't go wrong with coconut in a BA stout.  30 year and Barleywine seem to be getting great reviews.
    i've had Prop twice.  I may have got a bottle from you one year too I think.

    Always looking for a bottle of prop!  It truly was a thing of beauty.
  • bbiggsbbiggs Posts: 6,950
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    Indifference71 said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    Just picked up my allocation....


    So much of it out there this year.  All the variants were still available at a local grocery store yesterday.  Had the Prop the other night and really liked it....can't go wrong with coconut in a BA stout.  30 year and Barleywine seem to be getting great reviews.
    We sold out of everything but the regular Stout and the coffee.
    People don't  need to work hard to get these anymore.
    If In/Bev isn't careful BCBS will become ubiquitous and sit for months on shelves because no one will care anymore.
    Because of their ridiculous prices last year I didn't buy any of it.   First time ever.  Multiple beers were over $75.  I think I paid that much for the Rare 7 years ago.

    This year the prices were better but still sucked.  I paid $55 for the 30th.
    BCBS variant prices are no longer justified.  The regular price is.  Way too many breweries that have dialed in the barrel-aged stout game to be paying double the price.  There are multiple local breweries putting out equally good product at ~$15 for 16 ounces.  Goose Island is $25-$40 for the same amount of beer.  I'm talking variants only; not their base beer which is a good value at $12-$13 imo.  I've been bringing all the older bottles sitting in my basement to parties just to get them opened and gone.  Not acquiring anything new aside from their regular or if there is a "must have" variant, but nothing fits in that category for me this year.  I'll just sample them in 5 oz pours at a local bar if anything.  I did open a 2 Year Reserve from 2019 the other night and I will say, that beer would still be worth the price.  It was one of the best I've had.

  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,355
    bbiggs said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    Indifference71 said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    Just picked up my allocation....


    So much of it out there this year.  All the variants were still available at a local grocery store yesterday.  Had the Prop the other night and really liked it....can't go wrong with coconut in a BA stout.  30 year and Barleywine seem to be getting great reviews.
    We sold out of everything but the regular Stout and the coffee.
    People don't  need to work hard to get these anymore.
    If In/Bev isn't careful BCBS will become ubiquitous and sit for months on shelves because no one will care anymore.
    Because of their ridiculous prices last year I didn't buy any of it.   First time ever.  Multiple beers were over $75.  I think I paid that much for the Rare 7 years ago.

    This year the prices were better but still sucked.  I paid $55 for the 30th.
    BCBS variant prices are no longer justified.  The regular price is.  Way too many breweries that have dialed in the barrel-aged stout game to be paying double the price.  There are multiple local breweries putting out equally good product at ~$15 for 16 ounces.  Goose Island is $25-$40 for the same amount of beer.  I'm talking variants only; not their base beer which is a good value at $12-$13 imo.  I've been bringing all the older bottles sitting in my basement to parties just to get them opened and gone.  Not acquiring anything new aside from their regular or if there is a "must have" variant, but nothing fits in that category for me this year.  I'll just sample them in 5 oz pours at a local bar if anything.  I did open a 2 Year Reserve from 2019 the other night and I will say, that beer would still be worth the price.  It was one of the best I've had.

    I have that one too.  I traded it from someone on here...  Was so stoked to get that one.  I should drink that one soon.

    There are other companies doing nice beer things but not as good.  KBS comes close IMO.  Those are expensive 12oz too.  They go for $14 each or so.
  • Weston1283Weston1283 Posts: 4,858


    100 unique breweries on the dot this year!  (From Untappd year in review)
    2010: Cleveland
    2012: Atlanta
    2013: London ONT / Wrigley Field / Pittsburgh / Buffalo / San Diego / Los Angeles I / Los Angeles II
    2014: Cincinnati / St. Louis / Tulsa / Lincoln / Detroit / Denver
    2015: New York City
    2016: Ft. Lauderdale / Miami / Jacksonville / Greenville / Hampton / Columbia / Lexington / Philly II / New York City II / Toronto II / Bonnaroo / Telluride / Fenway I / Wrigley I / Wrigley - II / TOTD - Philadelphia, San Francisco
    2017: Ohana Fest (EV)
    2018: Amsterdam I / Amsterdam II / Seattle I / Seattle II / Boston I / Boston II
    2021: Asbury Park / Ohana Encore 1 / Ohana Encore 2
    2022: Phoenix / LA I / LA II / Quebec City / Ottawa / New York City / Camden / Nashville / St. Louis / Denver
    2023: St. Paul II
    2024: Las Vegas I / Las Vegas II / New York City I / New York City II / Philly I / Philly II / Baltimore
  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,908
    lmckenney24 said:
    Yearly pre-thanksgiving shipment from my buddy. Unfortunately, no Dinner avaliable but this will do.
    ^
    I picked up a sixtel of Lunch last night. Gonna be tapping it this evening. 
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  • mfc2006mfc2006 Posts: 37,447
    I made a bet on the ALCS for a box of beer with a buddy & it just arrived last week. Thanks, Jason!!!


    I LOVE MUSIC.
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  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,908
    The Juggler said:
    lmckenney24 said:
    Yearly pre-thanksgiving shipment from my buddy. Unfortunately, no Dinner avaliable but this will do.
    ^
    I picked up a sixtel of Lunch last night. Gonna be tapping it this evening. 
    MERRY CHRISTMAS - CHEERS
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  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Posts: 10,767
    Haven't been drinking for almost a month due to finally getting covid. This is just some of what is backing up on my sample shelf.


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