Goose Island Bourbon County Stout Massachusetts - Sightings!

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  1. Cugabuh

    Cugabuh Initiate (0) Dec 6, 2012 Massachusetts

    This will be available real soon or perhaps even now if you try hard enough. My store got a small shipment in, but we are waiting on a slight pricing change before it hits the shelves.
     
  2. jglowe77

    jglowe77 Initiate (0) Jan 24, 2011 Massachusetts
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  3. Ataraxia

    Ataraxia Zealot (562) Sep 20, 2012 California
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    We might want to differentiate between where there's still BCBS on shelves, and where the variants (coffee and cherry) have finally surfaced in MA.
     
  4. cbeer88

    cbeer88 Initiate (0) Sep 5, 2007 Massachusetts

    I'd suggest just starting a new thread for the variants, but practically speaking, the variants aren't even going to hit shelves, as stock will be tiny and reserved/hidden/backroomed. And even if they do hit shelves, by the time they are announced on BA they will be gone before you can get to the store.
     
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  5. Ataraxia

    Ataraxia Zealot (562) Sep 20, 2012 California
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    No need for another thread. Just that when someone posts about a few bottles left in Location A, it might be helpful to know which ones those are.
     
  6. PackieMcHopHead

    PackieMcHopHead Devotee (313) Oct 1, 2009 Massachusetts

    On tap at Prezo in Milford, Mass. last night.
     
  7. ActonBrewer

    ActonBrewer Initiate (0) Apr 9, 2009 Massachusetts

    Judging by the reports I have heard from distributors, I would call your favorite beer guy and ask to be put on the list. Better to be proactive than complaining on the boards a few weeks later.
     
  8. pagodayea

    pagodayea Initiate (0) Aug 7, 2005 Massachusetts

    Grabbed a coffee bomber last week at Pop's in Easton, $14.99, as well as a Night Stalker for $11.99. There was one or two more each, couldn't tell you if they lasted. Also was a Bolt Cutter for $25 (yikes!) that's been there a couple weeks.
     
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  9. Psychmusic

    Psychmusic Initiate (0) Jun 22, 2012 Massachusetts

    Liquor world in franklin had quite a bit of regular bcbs and what looked like a case of coffee at 13.99/bomber (not sure about the regular).. No cherry though
     
  10. WeymouthMike

    WeymouthMike Initiate (0) Jun 22, 2004 Massachusetts

    Old Colony in Quincy has a about 20 bottles of the bcbs in the shelves, for sale by the single for about $7
     
  11. cbeer88

    cbeer88 Initiate (0) Sep 5, 2007 Massachusetts

    At that price just drive to RI...
     
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  12. BobZ

    BobZ Savant (1,193) Jun 24, 2009 Massachusetts

    Honestly, this is the biggest "Cloak and Dagger" release of beer I've seen since getting involved in the hobby.

    Julio's still has received none (talking BCBCS) and they don't expect to get much at all. Meanwhile small stores (and some large ones) have the Coffee Stout popping up across the south shore. When it does appear (as you would guess) it's gone rather quickly and no-one seems to be seeing more than a case.

    Meanwhile the regular BCBS continues to re-appear across the South Shore too (Wines & More Mansfield).

    Supposedly, Coffee is hitting Boston proper this week.

    If the coffee stout has been this much of a fiasco, I can't imagine what the Cherry Rye will be like (now rumored to be end of January)

    I know the "grassy knoll" crowd and the "evil corporation" crowds will screech "ABInBev!! Man, they're hiding under my bed!! but there has to be more to the story than that. Especially, given how much of this beer landed everywhere else (like Maine as a small market and New York as a large one).

    Anyway, landed a bottle of coffee to drink eventually, god knows if I'll see the Cherry Rye! Oh, well it's just beer, bring on the KBS games after all they're just around the corner and Goose Island will make that release look easy!:grinning:
     
  13. tehzachatak

    tehzachatak Initiate (0) Sep 19, 2010 Massachusetts

    Liquor World in Cambridge also got BCBCS last week (I assume a case) and burned through it in about 4 hours. Plenty of Night Stalker as well. Only place in Boston area proper I know that's gotten any yet.
     
  14. IcemanCometh

    IcemanCometh Initiate (0) Sep 6, 2012 Massachusetts

    Yeah ugh I missed it by about 10 minutes. Stupid Boston traffic.
     
  15. tehzachatak

    tehzachatak Initiate (0) Sep 19, 2010 Massachusetts

    went in at like 6 and it was all gone. of course, my friend goes at about 9 pm, asks the dude, and turns out they had been mistakenly holding the last one for someone, so they sold it to him. some people have all the luck!
     
  16. Kwaz

    Kwaz Initiate (0) Mar 31, 2012 Illinois

    Any place in the Boston area still with regular BCBS on shelves?
     
  17. GoOSU

    GoOSU Zealot (574) Oct 6, 2006 Massachusetts
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    Try giving Liquor Land on Mass Ave a call, 617-445-0560. They had some last Friday.
     
  18. LiquidCourage

    LiquidCourage Initiate (0) Nov 1, 2012 Rhode Island

    Any places in MA or RI still have regular BCBS available?
     
  19. rowingbrewer

    rowingbrewer Maven (1,396) May 28, 2010 Massachusetts
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    Harringtons had 3 4 packs on the shelf last time I was there
     
  20. rowingbrewer

    rowingbrewer Maven (1,396) May 28, 2010 Massachusetts
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    Honestly there is no reason to gO crazy to get it. This will be year round very soon. AB has seen the $$ and will invest heavily in GI to maximize profits. Hence the plan to grow them from like 100k barrels to 1MM barrels over several years, distribute them nationwide, and make those hard to get releases year round. I will admit that goose island would have had a tough time to do it on their own, but what they did up until the sellout was down out of passion, what is down now will be done for profit
     
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