Kane Brewing (December 2015)

I dont know what clock youre using but my clock said 12. At 11:59 it was still not for sale.

 

I think your clock is wrong.

 

on my computer it was still not available until after 12. then i tried to add it into my cart and was booted. they did not sell early.

 

I started to refresh a few minutes before on two computers and at 11:58 it started to slow down. I just figure it was everyone refreshing around then. Hopefully some nice stuff will be available for growlers on Sunday.

 

Not trying to be a dick here but if we've learned anything from this, and all the other hyped releases, Kane is probably not too worried about generating future sales. The caveat is: as long as they continue to make a great product.

 

Disappointed that yet another year may be going by without me being able to try this beer. Holding out hope there was some bot nonsense and a bunch of sales will be cancelled. Ah well, back to the camping out at midnight plan, I guess.

 

You can set your clock on your computer to whatever time you want but you should really be using a NTP network time server which sets your time to perfect global time. I refreshed as soon as it turned 12, put an 8 pack in my cart, entered a cc and got my allocation.

 

I'm sure they aren't worried about selling this particular beer. I am talking about word of mouth and more people trying their different beers day to day and buying growlers. And then when they get canning figured out buying cans. Growing a business that way makes sense to me.

 

Some grade A butthurt in this thread. Go drink one of those other hundred or so adjunct stouts in your cellar that you were "saving for the right time," and get over it.

 

That's just luck of the draw. I'm sure a lot of other people did the same thing and didn't get as lucky. Not Kane's fault. Just how it goes. I've been on both sides of it.

 

Had atomic clock on desktop, and BPT on laptop. Tickets went on sale exactly at noon. Anyone who says they were on sale earlier needs to update their clock.

 

I'm curious what they have left for sale. The language "we may sell out before the end of the day" would seem to imply there is a bit of regular.

 

Yea, same here...And if someone would care to explain to me how writing a script to put in your info would help at all in this scenario. When i clicked purchase for the 8 pack it took me to a screen with a timer set at 15 min i believe. Allowing me time to input my name and relevant info. IIRC, you could let that time run down to 5 seconds have all your info in and still be able to purchase. So how does having your info in at 14:59 differ from having it in at 0:05?

 

The whole "writing code" scenario is actually hilarious.

 

Myself and 3 other people I know all tried at 12 on the dot and got the over allotment message... Oh well, tons of other great beer out there. Hope to try some of these eventually though. The only thing that should have been changed is it should have been 1 of each per person only, share the wealth right!

 

All I did was CMD+R (Mac here) from 11:59 on (yes 11:59 and anyone who says they went on sale early have clocks off by a few minutes) and as soon as a refresh showed the quantity as an option I selected 1 and went to checkout and moved as fast as I could. I had my CC copied and pasted it. I checked out in under 10 seconds. I have no opposition to random draw but I also love fastest fingers and anyone who thinks the system had a "glitch" by selling out so fast has never participated in a stocking of a highly sought after item Yes, this type of stocking favors people with fast Internet, a fast computer and experience in stockings like this. I admit that. However, accusing people of using "code" just because you are unfamiliar with highly sought after stockings is a special kind of butthurt. Random draw would be great next time but I guarantee that people will still be pissed after missing out. I can hear it already. "Oh, this person had their family member enter for them" or "Oh this person created 50 emails to enter" or "Oh this person is the owner of random.org and it isn't fairrrrr."

 

The Bruery already makes a sour stout

 

Well played, sir

 

I hate to say I told you so, but all of the people who advocate drinking in line, this is what you get. To avoid a complete shit show some of which is caused by people treating the line like there own personal party, they did BPT. For line drinkers who got shut out, you only have yourself to blame.

And yes, I understand why beer people love to share beer, the best part of being a beer geek is the generosity and camaraderie of beer geeks who barely know each other. But there is a time and a place for it. Have had the opportunity to drink at shares and breweries with many fine BAs on here and definitely appreciate it.

 

I feel bad for you. There needs to be a better way of supporting the locals who keep the lights on every week as opposed to the people who swoop in once a year not to be seen again until next bog release.