headed up through Chicago next Friday

I can't speak for the other locations but South Loop has a decent selection. You can also follow them on twitter to see when stuff comes in: @southloopbeer

 

Or try http://www.printersrowwine.com/ they usually have a great selection. Anything you are looking for?

 

south loop.binnys and local option. half acres

 

Fischman's Liqours is also good for Pipeworks.

 

South Loop is pretty close to the highway. So is Fischman's which was mentioned.

 

Plenty of pipeworks to be found, even in the hole in the wall places now. Anything specific you are looking for?

Also barrel aged revolution is pretty easy to get now too, lots of straight jacket collecting dust, which is a damn shame.

 

it would probably be a pain in the ass if you are just passing thru but Craft on Belmont and Southport has a huge selection and lots of them. prob 10+ diff bombers i saw. Cheers.

 

If you are traveling up I 294, Ardmore Station Liquors in Villa Park is a short detour off the expressway.
Great selection & tons of Pipeworks.

 

I think their $19.99 price point shoots them in the foot a little (which strikes me as odd because their regular bombers are priced under similar competitors). If they lowered the barrel aged bottles by $3 I bet it would all be snatched up.

 

I think most bottle shops Mark them up, because they're supposed to be 15-16
Even at 18.99, the price I see straight jacket for at Binnys, it's an awesome beer for the cellar. We did it head to head with sucaba and kunhennen bbbw and straight jacket was the winner. Still tough competition from central waters, their bbbw is half the price per volume and just so delicious.

 

Since they started doing double and triple batches of most of their releases, the PW inventory has started to build up on shelves at most stores. The BA stuff is the only product that only lasts a day or two.

 

Pipeworks Barrel Aged Imperial Jones Dog (http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28178/104824/) arrived at Binnys today. Just picked up a few bottles...

 

Actually that's a negative, the markup is pretty standard. I've complained to Rev a few times about how they're basically the only ones undecutting their retailers on Barrel Aged stuff.

 

Maybe the problem is the distributor? I don't know what I'm talking about...

 

It's not. I do

 

oh shit, somebody just got vav'd

if you are downtown, the Binny's on Grand always seems to have a good PW selection. Not too many whalezbrohunterz in that area. but beer temple, west lakeview liquors and probably castle vav (aka binny's LP) should all have at least some PW on the shelf (probably not goiong to get citra ninja tho)