A Deal with the Devil

I picked up Darkest Hour and was pretty impressed. Despite that, I can't bring myself to drop $32 for A Deal with the Devil.

 

Wowza! $17 for Darkest Hour? It's $9.99 here. I should also say that it is gone.

 

that's cool, though shipping to and from Alaska is really high... Maybe that's the reason. I do know that seven dollars isn't that bad, at least it's from Alaska. MOAS has a 7 to 8 dollar mark up and they are rather close.

 

I was @ Beer Junction earlier today and they had several cases on the floor. I passed, as I'd already snagged the final two bottles @ Bottleworks on Friday night.

Hoping to have a good reason to open one of these next Sunday evening...

 

Abyss and all Deschutes Reserve series are line priced at $14.99

 

Thats crazy. Me and a few friends drank almost the exact same things on Saturday. 1 MOAS, 1 DWTD, '13 Sucaba, '15 Sucaba

'15 Sucaba was disappointing, but the '13 didnt blow us away either. We were really confused because this has been one of my favorite beers for a while now. Did our taste buds change out of nowhere??? It just felt really thin and the depth of flavors compared to MOAS or DWTD were non-existent.

I know Stickee Monkee isnt a "barleywine", but that beer compares much more favorably to the others than Sucaba does.

 

until i have another central coast quad to compare it to, i'm calling it an english barleywine.

 

Nice! Yeah I had a '13 when the '14 sucaba came out and I was less impressed with it then. Seemed it mellowed out too much. The '14 is drinking really well right now though. Still compared to the others on our list, it was the weakest. I wanted to do a '13 moas as well, but damn what we had was a lot and we started rather late in the evening. I'd love to do a BW share!

 

Yeah, '14 is drinking really nice - tons of vanilla. A BW share would be a good idea.

 

I'll just throw it out there;
Anybody wants to bring in and swap some DWTD, happy to send equivalent bottles ($) back with you. Not my favorite beer, but c'mon now, a guys gotta get a little crunckly on occasion.

Oh, and new beer this week.

 

Darkest Hour is really really good (i like it way better than 2014 BCBS for example but that wont become a popular impression because of enrshired beliefs... ) but ADWTD is like an order of magnitude better.
Seriously if you like big sweet beers dont hesitate.
It's ridiculous.

 

it was $18 here....lasted about week as far as i could tell...

 

Jeez i feel for you guys paying 15+ for darkest hour, here in Anchorage at the brown jug warehouse they have it for $7.99

 

On the other hand, I feel for you guys in Alaska paying more for almost everything else. But enjoy that $8 Darkest Hour!

 

Havent noticed much difference in prices of stuff up here after i moved from Florida, specially being Anchorage is tax free.

Biggest price jump i saw was Fast food prices (No dollar menu up here :/) and milk. seen it as high as $5.96 per gallon of milk.

 

yeah, but you have the benefit of being in the big city on the road system, which also keeps prices down. for what it's worth, darkest hour was (is) $13-14 in juneau. and still around. and delicious.