Beer in Omaha, NE

That's disappointing for me, Lincoln didn't even get SMS and I wanted to try it. Maybe my 12 bottles of KBS will drown out that thought.

But in other news, Shorts Brewing ciders have arrived (are they any good?) and finally cans of TG Rover Truck. Gees, if only Golden Nugget cans would show up... I suppose all those bottled 4pks dated 09/30/15 would have to disappear first.

 

Still $19.99 at Beertopia

I didn't care for SMS last year and like it even less this year. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Fair enough.

Any truth to the six packs of Waldo this year?

 

i picked up a sixer. great concept, ok beer. easy to drink.

not omaha obv, but boiler brewing opened up today, planning on checking it out sometime this weekend.

 

yep

 

Yeah, agree re: Kinkaider. Solid but not spectacular.

 

Damn I'll load up on that danky Waldo

 

Someone almost/did? get upset with me last night about KBS. Quit ruining my hobby, yo.

 

Also lol at dudes that ask for KBS then say, "that's ok I already got a case today."

 

Late on the reply, apologies. 180th and Q had them for $22.99. Which is whatever, I'm splitting it with a buddy- already sold off one of my bottles, might see if someone wants to swap out the other one. I like KBS, but each year I get less and less excited about it- probably something wrong with me.

 

FTFY

 

Someone last night I imagine? Oh well, jokes on him.

What's the story, what's he look like, etc?

 

I forgot to add how big was his neckbeard?

 

Some guy called in (one of many), asked for KBS, I started saying "oh we're out man, that beer is like Bourbon County in..." then he just blew up "NO KBS is Founders dude! Bourbon County isn't Founders!" Me: "...in that it sells out super quick uh...". That and some other dude came in later in the evening and made that comment about already having a case.

It's a customer service job and craft beer fans can be very passionate, but after fielding KBS questions all day I was worn out so it caught me off guard and really irritated me. I'm having a saison now and am way over it.

 

Lol, passionate is one way of putting it. Cheers to good saisons!

 

I like working the retail side of beer most days, but big release days like KBS are hellish. For some reason what irks me the most are the people who ask how many cases we got after buying the beer. Or how much is left and what time did you get it? You got the beer! Why do you care?

 

I'm definitely guilty of that at times, but for me it's more about getting an idea of how stupid the market is getting (i.e. something that lasted for 8 hours a previous year lasting 45 minutes the next, or getting 30 cases of something one year and then 10 the next) than about how 'rare' a beer is in the market.

 

I agree with the above post, and will also add that I've probably asked that before because I have a group of a couple guys I'll text to let them know availability. If I'm the only one in our little group that gets Rare Beer X, I'll be more likely to hold that for some share so we can all try, but if everyone gets one, I'll take it over to my parents for dinner or just open it with my wife instead.

 

There's too big of a possibility of word getting back to other accounts that then bug the distributor about why they didn't get as much of X beer as Y account for us to share allocations. Just asking for trouble.

And it's not like KBS/BCBS are that limited in any real sense of the word as far as sharing with your friends that missed out goes.

Cheers!

 

Any of you guys going out Thursday for Migration week? Trying to find out where BC Propreeshitlords 14' will be on tap as that beer is outstanding.