Introducing Jester King 2016 SPON — Méthode Gueuze

I will do exactly this. Thank you! If we somehow find each other, I owe you a draft pour.

 

Bah, you don't owe me anything. Enjoy your stay in Texas and enjoy your time at Jester King tomorrow.

 

You will be able to show up at any point on Friday and get bottles. If you go at say 7-8, there will likely be no line. I cannot guarantee this but with so many bottles it is highly probable. You may not be able to get pours of the SPON coming out today but there will be plenty of other stuff to drink and you don't have to spend your valuable time in line. To each their own of course.

 

Anyone know what the line is looking like now?

 

About 50 in line right now

 

If any of you guys who are there want to keep chirping in with line details, I'd love that! Still hoping to go a little later in the day because my GF won't be back from work for a bit, but that good old JK anxiety is starting to kick in...

 

Jumped to 100 now in that 20min

 

Really mellow out here I'd be surprised if they push through half of this tonight. If I didn't have family obligations I'd just get here after 6 or 7 and relax. But without the 100 degree weather and Stanley's open early not that bad either.

 

In the 175-200 range here now with 15 minutes to go. One of the most low-key releases I've been to.

 

Good to know guys, thanks for the updates!!!

 

No line and a ton of bottles left if anyone was wondering.

 

Yep. Here now with less than 50 people. No line for bottles, and the draft line was less than five minutes.

 

Heads up, be extra careful with this weekend's SPON labels. They're coming off really easily.

 

You'd think that @jesterkingbeer could put a little more effort into the labels. More than half of mine were either on sideways or completely off and stuck to the box. That doesn't seem like something that should be an issue....especially at this price point. It was my first trip to JK. It was very laid back and everything went smoothly outside of the label problem.

 

It had something to do with the weather, I believe. The Spon labels have not been like that prior to this weekend. If you leave it on overnight stuck as best you can I think it should dry out and be ok. Maybe they are susceptible to condensation because they are not a wrap around like the other labels. In any case, the Spon bottles prior to tonight haven't had the issue, and thankfully it's not a major problem.

Edit: oh yeah, the beer was super good too, I don't know which one was my favorite. I was really surprised by how radically different they were from each other.

 

Yep, wife showed up at 6:30 for me. No line, in and out in 10 min. Wish I had been home to try some on draft, but no complaints

 

That's a good wife, mine kept me home

 

Easy Peasy. No wait for draft of all 3 or bottles. The beer... wow. I couldn't decide which I liked better, there's a huge depth of flavor to both fruited variants, the combination of Peach and Apricot was blended really well, mouthfeel was super smooth on both, with a nice linger.

Flor was tart, musty and complex af. Seems like it's a prime candidate for aging.

 

@jesterkingbeer Can we get a bottle count?

 

First world problems.