Toppling Goliath (2020)

And at $1200 for a group of six!! My oh my, the menu must be mindblowing!!!

*looks at menu, sees high school career center dishes*

 

People can hate on this all they want, but if I lived close I would totally do this. Their taproom is awesome and its not like we can go out to bars or do anything relatively fun anyway

 

It sounded nice to me at first too, something that I might even travel for if we weren't fighting a pandemic. But then I clicked the link...

I've had a 12-15ish (?) course NYE dinner by a James Beard award winning chef with wine pairing for less per person than this. And literally everything about it was pricier from the POV of the restaurant's expense, namely its urban location, menu items/ingredients, to the bottles of wine.

 

Yeah, you're basically paying $107 a bottle per person for Tequila and VB Assassin. Looks like seating is in 1 hour intervals, so if I'm reading this correctly you're getting a fairly basic 3 course meal and expected to eat it within a hour, given your bottles and you're off to go party/ring in 2021, maybe in a college town in rural Iowa in the middle of winter, or back at home.

They know there are plenty of people who will do this. So, all good for them.

 

Looks like Toppling Goliath is figuring out what political fundraisers did a while ago. People will pay for the access, not the food. Many political fundraisers realized they could switch to hot dogs instead of gourmet dishes and still charge the same since it's the candidate that's the draw. How long until Toppling Goliath asks you to tear open your own mustard packets for their next big "dinner"?

 

Their taproom is great but no way in hell in this environment I'm going to an indoor restaurant to eat with other germ-ridden humans (& probably a lot of them). Just one more questionable move by TG. But hey, they're making tons of money!

 

Hungry Man TV dinners but with Term Oil Brownies.

 

Talking about the cost of these dinners has got me thinking. TG has to be one of the most profitable craft breweries in the world, right?

Anyone know of any other high priced dinner / releases like this?

 

Is it worth the 3 hour drive for these two bottles? I have a ticket but quickly losing motivation to make the drive. Is it worth it? I’d literally be driving down, grabbing my bottles, having a couple pours and driving the 3 hours back — I get it’s subjective, but ratings look only ok. My window is Thursday ...

 

No alcohol on this planet is worth a 6 hour round trip drive.

 

Thank you. I needed someone to talk some goddamn sense into me. Literally was going to be a solo round tripper to grab these two bottles maybe grab a shot or two of brews I’m marginally interested in trying and driving back ...

 

Haha ... I was going to make that caveat to my reply ... there is definitely some shit that I’d make the Decorah trip for, but man ... I can’t seem to will myself into this one. And all I lose is $5 for the ticket I think. Am I making the right call?

 

Me too - which makes me feel like I’m hitting on the ugly girl at last call when the lights turn on and my buddies are flagging me to get out - if it ain’t KBBS you don’t want dat Fluffernutter!!

I just made the call - I’m skipping. My barometer is I have a cellar full of craziness and I wouldn’t even trade for these (not trying to minimize them! But racking and stacking it against a 6hr drive by myself has me pulling out!)

 

Not going to lie... The fact that my wife and I are both working from home and my kids have been doing remotely learning for the past month or so, I’d welcome those 6 hours of solitude in the car right about now.