Fonta Flora December Release

This just in from Fonta Flora regarding a December release. Giving out wristbands early is pretty cool, guess we'll see how it works out.

 

I'm assuming you mean bottle limits, not bottle counts. Because that'd be interesting if they could go whip up some more bottles...

 

Personally I don't think it is, just another method they're trying out until they hit on the one (or ones) that they like best. Not setting limits until you see the number of wristbands I would say favors locals fairly heavily, as does pre-distributing wristbands.

What'll be interesting is seeing how the limits are set. With a single beer release it's not particularly difficult. Take the number of bottles, divide by the number of wristbands, and then maybe cap it at a certain number if you don't have as many wristbands as you thought you would. But with three beers that could be difficult since there's a decent chance part of the line is only there for one beer, or maybe two. So if you take the safest way out and divide the bottles by wristbands for each beer you may have a lot left over (which may or may not be a bad thing as it'll all get sold eventually) if one beer (let's say... Jitterbug) is much more popular than the others.

That weekend is shaping up to be quite the weekend for beer. WW Angel of Darkness on the 16th, and then Fonta Flora and Oskar Blues on the 17th.

 

As long as the line moves at a decent pace, true. If the line takes 2 hours to process then that's a problem. Of course, if the line takes 2 hours to process then it's a problem for other reasons than setting limits.

 

Interesting. Didn't actually make it to the release of either of those and ended up just drinking the draft the day after. There was a while that I was avoiding FF releases because it was all a bit crazy. I'm really enjoying the sanity that's been brought to their releases lately.

 

Problem being that with multiple beers being offered at one time, you'll end up with one or two of the beers being left over at the end, potentially with a lot left over. You want to move the beer so it doesn't sit around taking up space, so you'd want people to go back through line to get whatever is leftover. But that's less likely to happen if the line takes forever to process because the people at the front will go home at some point.

I'm not criticizing at all, I'm just saying that setting limits with a multiple-beer release using a limit-determined-by-the-number-wristbands-given-out system presents some interesting challenges in optimization