Saint Lamvinus - what's it take?

Hard to say without any indication of what you have. But Lamvinus is harder to get than Classic Gueuze/Rose de Gambrinus/Kriek, but easier than Fou Foune (probably about the same as a Lou Pepe, but I'm not sure). I'd guess that a highly sought local at over $4$ could do it (something like Heady), or some limited shelf stuff like BCBS/KBS at roughly $4$.

I definitely wouldn't order it for $60, I'd never pay over $30 for it. I think if you do it right you can get a bigger box (like 12 bottles) from one of those European websites and have it come out to pretty cheap per bottle, but the upfront cost (and the risk of losing the box to customs) are problematic.


EDIT: Well in that case, SHIT SHIT SHIT.

 

Up here, Lamvinus is one of the harder ones to find on a shelf. Not as mythical as Fou Foune, but harder to find than LP Framboise or LP Gueuze.

 

HF absolutely would, hell I'd break my trading hiatus to send you one (and some other stuff) for some HF. I doubt Zhukov's would, but maybe my perspective is skewed because I'm not a big fan of the beer and for some reason have gotten like 5 as extras. I haven't even traded with Floridians that many times, it's very strange.

 

Indeed. How 'bout that Higgs Boson?

 

Haha yeah something like that...

 

Ah, yeah, the result announced last night/this morning is pretty definitive that there's something there. My understand as a someone who's only passingly familiar with Particle Physics is that this is discovery of some boson, but not necessarily the Higgs. Really it would probably be better if it's NOT the Higgs, since that would mean new physics. Finding the Higgs at ~125 GeV just means the Standard Model is right yet again, and really, who wants that? But betting against the Higgs at this point seems unwise.

To bring this back to beer, what does one drink to celebrate a physics discovery? I was planning on downing a growler of Row 2, but that's hardly physics-y. There has to be something better.

 

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/7753/64226 ?

or perhaps one of these:
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1550/64807
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/689/61554

 

I have no idea where we go. I think the hope for now is that once the LHC gets up to full energy we'll find something. If we don't it'll probably be the dark age for particle physics, since it'll be impossible to convince any governments to fund a new accelerator with "this might be able to tell us something maybe!" Of course, if the LHC finds nothing at all I think that means SUSY is in trouble, but I don't really know how integral SUSY is to our current understanding of things.

Either way it's interesting, but finding nothing probably spells bad times for all those physicists with no other training...

(And I just have a physics bachelors too, some of my coworkers are PhDs and probably understand this better than I do, but asking them about it would require leaving my office...)

Are you near Batavia by any chance? That might go over well there.

 

Wherever you are thinking about ordering from you are paying way too much. I could order some shipped for around $30/bottle.

 

can you order me some?

 

$30/bottle is my limit. But Lamvinus is one my favorite 'loons. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. If you do end up placing a large order online, if you're filling up an order to get good shipping, I found Vignerrone (muscat grape), to be be far inferior Lamvinous. You may like it a lot more though, if you enjoy the extra sweetness.

 

Lamvinus is $25/750 in Calgary when you can find it.

 

It was $36 at the cheapest when I saw it in IL.

Vig was only $18 when I saw it last-- and it is quite delicious