bruery reserve society 2013 allocations

by *far*?

 

The Barrel Aged beer party both in 2012, & 2011 was better then the much better organized 2012 intiation, as well as the Clusterfuck that the 2011 intiation was. However, I did still enjoy all of them. Attended about 4 Clusterforks in 2011, but none in 2012, however they were always fun.

Being a Hoarder member now myself, I'm looking forward to what events they plan.

 

I liked the BT dinner pairing better.

Really? Everyone I knew ended up with extra tickets and at the end they were pouring without taking tickets. I went away pretty blitzed.

 

The boys and I are sharing a membership. Looking to put our shipment on hold until march to just get a big box including the Chocolate Rain. Wish we could make the initiate parties.

Looking forward to some goodies showing up to my door.

 

Fair enough. I enjoyed the BT dinner thing, since it was more relaxed, but the Initiation Party just had so much more on tap.

I agree about the extra tickets. Our group had quite a few extras by the end. For me, the problem was having enough time to enjoy all the pours in the 2 hour time frame (or however long it was, I forget). I guess the moral of the story is: if you run out, just beg strangers for more.

 

Yeah, if the thing had been 4 hours long it would've been more of an issue that there were limited tickets. Then again I got to try pretty much everything I wanted to try, so it might have been fine either way.

Anywho, I enjoyed myself, but not so much that I'll be racing to go again this year, it probably won't work out.

 

Yeah. By the time I left a lot of the other beers I wanted to try were gone or near gone (I left probably half an hour before the event was over.) I wasn't with a big group, and I can drink, so that probably didn't help things.

It was a pretty solid event but they should allow sales of additional tasters after a couple of hours. It also would've been nice to have another food option besides BBQ.

 

Depends on what you want out of the events. At the Barrel tasting event, they had every vintage of EVERY BA'd beer they have produced. You could get together with few buddies and do some verts to see how things are shaping up. I don't recall much of that at the Initiation Party.

But at the initiation party it's pretty much all the Saison Rue you can drink! And the Barrel Tasting could not brag about that.

Plus the Initiation party was like $50 and the BA party was like $30.

 

Yeah the selection was great - it was just too bad you couldn't try all of them on one person's ticket allocation!

Here's the taplist from last year:

barrel aged 2 turtle doves
barrel aged autumn maple
barrel fermented autumn maple
batch 300
batch 50
bierbauch
black tuesday
burly gourd
chocosaurus rye
coton
cuadruplé
cuir
gunga galunga
iso:ft
marrón acidifié
melange 1
melange 3
mischief gone wild
papier
premiere
run bmc
saison de lente 2010
salt of the earth
smoking wood (rye barrel)
smoking wood (bourbon barrel)
snicklefritz
sour in the rye
tart of darkness
white oak
mother funkier
acer quercus
carmen w/ kiwi
carmen w/ pomegranate
chocolate rain
eider’s folly
humulus lager
iniquitous
loakal red
old richland
otiose
oude tart
oude tart w/ sour cherries
sans pagaie
firkin: sour in the rye w/ kumquats
firkin: bourbon smoking wood w/ bacon

 

At the end of the day, you're gonna come out a winner from attending either party. And they are so spread out, attend both!!!!!!!!

 

was the barrel party the one on like a tuesday or wednesday last year?

 

I agree with this.
Yeah, I'd say both the intiation, and the barrel party, being so spread out, are the two that are the best for your money to experience.

However, with all this said in this thread, if you want to come to CA only once in the year, and have a great event, go to the Firestone Walker invitational in June. The Bruery was there last year pouring quite a few good offerings, in addition to many other amazing breweries. Unlimited pours, unlimited food, unlimited water, 4 hours, etc. The best paid event I've ever attended... exclamation point ("period" just wasn't dramatic enough) and the bottle shares the night before, and after the event, epic.

 

Holy crap - where can I get in on this?

 

This perfectly captures the genius of Patrick Rue: getting people to spend $700 for the privilege of buying twice as many $35 beers as those suckers who paid only $300 for the privilege of buying his incredibly expensive beer.

I think it's safe to say that those of us involved in this sort of thing have been dealt a very good hand of cards in life.

 

Or we're idiots.

 

Agreed on all counts. I’m just afraid of tallying up the money I spend on RS purchases in a given year and in complete awe that the bruery has pulled off such an amazing revenue generation machine. Surely, the titans of corporate America would love to integrate this concept into their capitalist exploits if only they could figure out a way.

Indeed, we get the spoils of absurdly delicious (and expensive) beer, and the considerable benefit of easy access, but nonetheless an extraction tube has been hooked up to our wallets that can easily suck out anywhere from 2-5% of our annual salaries. It’s almost like tithing, though obviously better since the opium of our masses is real and imbibed in this life, as opposed to promised in the next life which, with fingers crossed, many people await with high (if mistaken) hopes.

And I do not mean this as an attack on the bruery, which I happily and wholeheartedly tithe in order to partake in the delicious blood of the beer gods.

 

Ryan, you get your own membership? Last year it was 2 bottles with 1 included, so at least enough for each of your crew to get 1.

Do what I did, and look for a person/couple with at least half their tickets left with an hour to go and make friends.

 

Ugh, not Bruery RS but this is usually me and my gf at events, we are such lightweights...

 

Since this thread has turned towards the Initiation Party, here's a reference from last year. Includes my fresh (at the time) opinions of the event. 10 tickets would've gotten you 40 oz of beer (roughly).

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/bruery-rs-initiation-reaction-wrap-up.6063/