Bourbon County Brand sold at brewpub?

Once in a while the brewpub might have it on tap (like a couple times a year)...but they don't sell bottles of BCBS at the brewpub.

 

I have seen on sale at the brewpubs for on premise consumption but not to take home.

BTW, was at the Wrigley one on Friday, I didnt see it but they had a SPF Kolsh (not summertime), a weise, London Porter, Lincoln Park Lager and few other seasonal offerings. The SPF was freaking really good!

 

Bourbon County Stout typically comes out around November. Variants (Coffee, Cherry Rye, etc.) usually come out a few weeks later. Unlike most other breweries, there is no brewery/brewpub release, though there have been Black Friday events that include beer to drink on premises. The brewpubs are not owned or operated by AB-InBev so I wouldn't assume that anything coming out of Fulton will be available at either brewpub via draft or bottles. Last fall, BCS was widely available throughout Chicago and the Coffee version was pretty easy to get, too.

 

With the A-B ownership (and resources) wasn't BCBS supposed to be released multiple times each year?

 

No. This was never the case. I think the idea that production would be ramped up to a level that it would sit on the shelves all year somehow morphed into it being released multiple times. It takes 36 hours to brew alone. FWIW, I can still find it sitting on shelves.

 

Michigan would like to annex Indiana if you're still seeing it on shelves.

 

Actually, BCBS was released multiple times this last year. Many stores that received it were able to get 2-3 shipments, a few weeks apart.

 

Multiple waves of shipments doesn't really make it released multiple times. They had one big "release" push, then stuff worked its way through distro.

The brewpubs have occasionally featured limited-release bottles. They did the King Henry release there two Black Friday's ago. People in line very early had a chance to buy some vintage BCS, too. I don't think they've done something like that since then. The Clybourn pub does have some vintage bottles of the Belgians for sale.

 

LOL You are funny.

Each shipment of BCBS this past year had a different bottling date...

What more do you need? The bottles to say "Release #1 of 2013"...."Release #2 of 2013"...."Release #3 of 2013" ??

There were clearly multiple shipments of BCBS this past year....Was it year round? No. It was still a seasonal release; but there were multiple releases of it.

An example of a one time release?? Umm, immediately coming to mind is some of Firestones seasonal offerings, including Parabola and Sucaba. Those are the defenitions of one time releases. BCBS this past year was not even close to either of those in terms of distribution/releases.

 

So, each time a seasonal gets another shipment, it's another "release"? Yeah, that makes sense. So, Three Floyds has had 2 or three Blackheart releases, and Parabola had at least 2 releases since a few stores got second shipments after the initial push?

It's not like this is some brewery-only limited bottle count thing. You even said it yourself: It's a seasonal release. Not like a spring release and a fall release or something like that. One release, in November.

Oh, and the bottling dates were mixed in the same shipment waves, even that first week when people were scrambling all over the place. At least, that's what our group noticed when picking up multiple cases throughout that week.

 

There are 4 seasons of BCBS in Dekalb, noob

 

Completely forgot the Dekalb whalez angle.