retiring a beer and creating 2 new ones?

Question - where are you citing the alternating schedule of bourbon & port pre-2012 from? The only information I can find is that previous vintages were aged on nebulous 'oak'. Other than AgentMunky, who had the 2012 vintage, none of the reviews actually cite 'bourbon' as a flavor in the beer.

In response to your question. There are two discrete products available, and it is clear which one is port and which one is bourbon. It is somewhat silly to have only one listing for both when you can easily tell the two beers apart. I created the listings with 0 reviews preemptively, as invariably someone is going to attempt to create a 'Port' listing to represent the new Red/Yellow label when he/she can't find it on here. While somewhat of a kludge, this was the best solution I could come up with. Pre-2012 vintages don't have very clear dating, so it'd be pretty hard to separate them into bourbon/port if what you say is accurate. You'll see Ratebeer has done things the same way.

Site Editors can create listings without reviews - I do this when I see new products announced or confirmed festival lists as it really cuts down on duplicate listings and maintains consistent naming conventions. Unfortunately, the dearth of European BAs leads to some of the Struise ones staying empty for a little bit until they make it stateside or show up on Etre Gourmet.

 

That's what I figured. If I'm feeling particularly motivated I'll send him an email and see if he can confirm which Lot #s/Best Before dates match which vintages/barrels. Then I'll see how successfully I can sort through the previous reviews to potentially match them to the Port & Bourbon listings. Unfortunately, there are probably too many unspecified reviews. It's not like Perseguidor, where I could use flavor profile to figure it out.