Available Top 250s?

Only because I go pick it up for you 2x a year.

 

NYC area:
KBS isn't too hard to find, #5
BCBS is on tap and on the shelf at my local distributor and has been for months, #13
FBS is on the shelf year round, #23

I'm sure there's plenty of others in the top 50 but I haven't looked for them.

Enjoy By at #58 is the first IPA that's easier to come by and you only get it as often as they make it.

As much as I like Sculpin, I find there's plenty of other better (IMO) IPAs I've been buying instead. However it's definitely the easiest IPA in the top 250 to find.

 

I guess it really boils down to where you live, work, or play. Working in Munster means that any of the regular release Floyds stuff is easy for me to get. Vanilla Bean DL is really just luck. One day a year you can get it, and it is purely if you are in an early Group and then only if you win the opportunity to get it on a scratch off.

 

Uh, what?

 

Not year round, but it wasn't hard to find the last few years when it was released.

 

not the 5/16. very limited distro

 

What about at restaurants and stuff? Nothing in S Vermont?

 

Chicago area is FBS, Rochefort 10, Scuplin IPA, Wehenstephaner Hefeweissbier. These can all be found year round (minus FBS) around here.

 

I think different batches hit different parts of the country

I guess easy to find, in the top 100 sculpin and ten fidy

Not too hard to find - floyds IPAs and founders breakfast and imperial

Is say roughly a third if the list sees Chicago at some point, some are gone in minutes.

 

Pliny The Elder is the first "easiest" to find.

 

Im from VT as well, and I did all 250 in about 2 years worth of time. Stop going out to shit bars and buying long trail and switchback, and start merging beer trips with social trips and its easy.

 

Prairie Bomb gathers a lot of dust here in Arkansas.

 

Lawson's Double Sunshine

 

I live in New York.
Here is a list of what I can go out and get today within a few miles of home/work:

#13 Bourbon County Brand Stout
#24 Founders Breakfast Stout
#29 Trappistes Rochefort 10
#36 Hopslam Ale
#44 St. Bernardus Abt 12
#58 Enjoy By IPA
#59 Samuel Adams Utopias
#71 Sculpin IPA
#72 Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier
#82 AleSmith Speedway Stout
#90 Victory At Sea Coffee Vanilla Imperial Porter
#98 Lagunitas Sucks (Brown Shugga Substitute Ale)
#99 Ten FIDY
#100 Founders Imperial Stout
#101 Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break
#108 Tröegs Nugget Nectar
#110 Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze
#116 Stone Imperial Russian Stout
#117 Double Jack
#127 Espresso Imperial Russian Stout
#136 Founders Backwoods Bastard
#137 Trappistes Rochefort 8
#149 La Fin Du Monde
#155 Wulver
#158 Stone Ruination IPA
#161 Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne
#167 Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
#168 Stone RuinTen IPA - (questionable availability)
#171 Bois
#181 90 Minute IPA
#182 Chimay Grande Réserve (Blue)
#183 Westmalle Trappist Tripel
#185 Plead The 5th Imperial Stout
#196 Rodenbach Grand Cru
#211 Double Bastard Ale - (questionable availability)
#213 DirtWolf
#214 Hoponius Union
#220 Two Hearted Ale
#221 Duvel
#222 Founders Porter
#223 Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter (bit of a drive for this)
#224 Choklat
#225 Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
#226 Founders Harvest Ale
#227 Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
#229 Allagash Curieux (Bourbon Barrel-Aged Tripel)
#231 Chillwave Double IPA (bit of a drive for this)
#232 Fantôme Saison
#233 Sour In The Rye
#234 Pannepot Reserva (bit of a drive for this)
#244 Jai Alai IPA
#245 Flower Power India Pale Ale
#246 AleSmith IPA
#248 Weihenstephaner Vitus
#250 Oude Tart

Probably missing a few that I don't recognize on the top 250 list, but I can vouch for seeing 90% of these in the last month. The other 10% I used beermenus for.

 

Something that is available for basically 1 or 2 days a year isn't "not hard to find." It takes considerably more effort to get KBS than most other beers. It is extremely hard to find. Not sure why you would say otherwise.

 

i can smell hipster in that one...
While we may not have quite the availability as northern VT in our backyards, I'm still very happy with selection at the local bottle shop (especially compared to 6 years ago) and also availability in the Albany area I'm guessing Mass has a good selection as well?