Cycle/ccb bottle releases

Which aren't too you?

No troll..honest question

 

I haven’t had them all, but I recently had the carribean rum with coconut on tap and thought I’d wasnt very good. It was under carbed and muddled. I haven’t had them all but I felt a while ago like many of their stouts started running together. There are as many misses as hits now imo. I’m suprised they keep bottling even though they haven’t cleared inventory. Their bottles say drink fresh, the question will be what wont be considered fresh by their standards when they are sitting on cases of inventory.

I do like the option of having multiple ba beers on tap to choose from any day of the week.

I thought cocodamia was the best beer they’ve put out this past year. Obviously the non infected version.

 

Didn't have the tap version, but didn't get any of that from the bottled product. Generally I prefer Cycle's stouts from the bottle for whatever reason.

 

I thought the rum barrel notes were pretty extreme on that beer. I didn't get much pepper on ain't too drunk to brew. The baltic porter was a-ok. I think rare dos 1 is so good that I struggle with buying anything else

 

Haven't had any Cycle stouts in probably a year. I just think anything over $20 is crazy for their beer. Way to many to name but for instance their trademark series was not that great especially for the price I would like to see BA Ecto bottled though though it's not exactly their beer.

 

For me, I’m buying less, not because of trade value, but wallet fatigue and I have so many bottles of cycle stouts I cant drink them fast enough. I have three regular traders, and that’s it... they usually only want 1 of each if that.

Plus, they used to come out very infrequently. Seems like it is 7 diffferent bottles a quarter. Sometimes very similar ones.

Cycle is probably my favorite brewery in Tampa, I just can’t buy all the bottles.

Plus my tequila collection is expensive and growing...

 

I agree.

The few I've been able to try both on tap and bottled versions of I liked the bottled version better. In a blog post about the infected weekday set they said the way they heated the bottles up for pasteurization is what accounts for the difference in taste.

 

A few are listed as vanilla and maple barrel but no bourbon. So are those just stouts aged in flavored barrels? Or did the barrels at one time hold alcohol?

 

In the past these have been vanilla bourbon and maple bourbon, but I can't say with certainty here. That said, if that is the case, &+ in vanilla bourbon barrels sounds great.

 

So now they are going to have 15 total bottles available for sale??? Thats crazy that nothing is selling out.

 

The loss of secondary luster/larger batches made ....makes selling out quickly nonexistent

I'm OK with that.

 

Still, Rare Dos 1 has been there for almost half of the year. BA Hazelnut has be around a while too

 

And they're better beers than anything I've stood in line for this half of the year.

 

Secondary down and quantity up .... Who have thought it wouldn't sell out. Haha .

They made a ton apparently. And I'm ok with that . .. If AC ever adopted that... Whew I'd be happy that's for sure.

 

My cycle favorites this year all sat behind the bar in boxes forever

Cocodamia (5yr)
Rare Dos 1
Hazelnut
Stay Fancy

 

The best part of this new release is they are all $25. It’s a nice break from $35 at AC, $30 at HS and $35+tax for el cat extras.

 

How fast is kolo's shipping typically? I want to get in on this fun but have reservations about bottles getting stuck on a frozen truck for a whole weekend. I see the next ship date is a Monday but just want to be sure they don't use some kind of extra slow shipping option or something to save money.

 

I'm pretty sure if Cycle's bottles were selling faster, they'd be more expensive than $25. I could be wrong though.

 

Cycle has absolutely charged over 25 for many of their bottles which are smaller than ac 750ml