New in Kentucky

Beer Store? I can't comment on how knowledgeable their staff is, but they do pretty grossly overcharge for stuff. Case in point: they're selling singles of Zombie Dust for $6 for on site consumption only. Pretty absurd markup.

 

Thankyou for sharing some grief. The beers are already overpriced so why the dollar fee to open it lol? I've resorted to walking out and drinking at royals patio . If you can ignore the mark up and egregious can opening fee, it's a great store. Wish the guys were a little more talkative. Maybe my opinion but beer tenders should enjoy talking to their customers and encourage them to try new things. In my experience, they do not interact well.

 

If you really want to chap their hides, say you like Beer Trappe in Lexington more.

 

How do you think the owner can afford to take all those trips? I mean just checkout the LBS instagram account

 

I'd assume it's the 30% mark up lol.

 

I have nothing but good things to say about Lori and Tyler. I've known them since LBS opened and enjoy a beer or three at Holy Grale at least once a month with the Mrs. I understand thinking the mark-up is too high, but you can always go to other stores instead of complaining about it.

Can't speak to the service as LBS isn't my go-to bottle shop, but I also don't remember tim I was in there and was put-off by how I was treated. Just my opinion though.

 

Ky is the only place other than Chicago to get BCBS Reserve according to early reports.

 

I predict BCBS will be more like '15 than last year, with all of the LB's getting a lot of the base and BW, a good number of cases of coffee, and a few cases of the variants (dunno how much Reserve they're making at all, so who knows with that). But even last year it wasn't super difficult to find bottles of regular and BW at most higher end places, and there were even some coffee stragglers throughout the following week if you ran around a little bit.

I would guess that the lines are going to fill up a bit earlier than normal since we're one of the only places getting Reserve; those scurvy hoosiers are gonna be coming over in droves.

 

I am done chasing BCBS. If it shows up at a share, lucky me. If I find it on tap somewhere, maybe. I'm just done giving InBev my money.

 

I tell myself that every year, and then somehow I find myself in line again. The issue is a) I legitimately do like to get a bottle or two of regular every year; IMO it's a singular BA stout that I like trying from year to year; and sadly, b) the variants trade well, especially in a year where one of them will be KY only. I'm nothing it not a blatant opportunist.

 

We didn't get a single bottle last year because we were camped out for Red Atrial. However, someone shared a bottle of BCBW with us and it was great.

 

I've been burning off my Wicked Weed collection with trades/shares, and I'm down to about 4 Bourbon County bottles.

 

One of my buddies who went to Abraxas snagged me one.

 

Anyone seen Born Yesterday in Louisville and if so where?

 

They had singles at Total Wine as of Saturday. Otherwise, it's been around most places in the Liquor Barn vein, might still be there.