Silva Stout & Sleepin’ with Shaggy Release Party

And by the time my vegetarian buddy made it through the line they were out of tortillas.

 

Padre games are in the $55 range including the ticket to the game. Charger games are in the $110 range including ticket.

 

Damn thats awesome!

 

So where can I buy these tix? For future reference

 

I wasn't there and will admit that up front...but how the hell do you run out of tortillas? Considering how ridiculously cheap they are (especially relative to the cost of the event), wouldn't whoever is responsible for the catering just bring an extra few dozen? There are various levels of failure as it pertains to brewery food events, but running out of something as basic as tortillas seems like it goes beyond "a decision you as the consumer disagree with" and zooms right into "complete inability to plan an event."

 

haha yeah figures. i ate a burrito in my rush from work to the release knowing i was going to be hungry and pissed and gave my food to my friend instead

 

I agree fully. Once I saw how much they had I knew they would run out.

 

They weren't normal flat tortillas. They were more like a homemade thin pancake made from corn meal about 5" in diameter.

 

Id say 3".....hahahaha

 

I thought u guys were gonna follow us to taco bell after to order tortillas

Anyways the bread pudding was pretty tasty.

 

I did hear good things about that Taco Bell....

 

Corn meal is cheap, and it's still inexcusable. If you feel like you got your money's worth, then great, but giving breweries a pass on complete failures to plan ahead and/or contract with someone who's competent at event planning doesn't bode well for the future of these types of events.

 

I'm going to assume those who went are going to justify the extra $45 as a convenience charge for being able to purchase multiple 4-packs. Thing is, that was never announced and GF failed to deliver on what was advertised. I'm really surprised they're going this route. I got the sense from them that their focus was going to be on beer and they would leave food/dining to other breweries.

 

I think the food pairing is dumb. I wouldn't even mind if they charged $50 for the 4 tasters and the opportunity to buy the beer. Food served on small plates in a big warehouse without anyplace to sit down doesn't do much for me.

 

Breweries continue to do overpriced "dinners" with bottle releases and continually fail in the execution and continually sell out yet people want to blame the brewery. Err ok.

 

Sounds like a chicken and egg dilemma to me. Blame can be placed on both sides.

 

This is what kills me. I desperately wanted Silva Stout. But I refuse to encourage this business model of stupid ass events in order to purchase some beer.

It's the reason I was so disappointed that it sold out. People are willing to throw their money away in order to buy rare beer. Now, they're only going to keep on doing it.

 

I agree with you completely, but if people are comfortable paying a large premium just for access to the beer, the failure on the food side isn't even really an issue. It's been discussed quite a bit here that a lot of rare beer is, relatively speaking, underpriced - this is a manifestation of that theory, in that people will shell out money for the "dinner" just to get the beer. I would rather the brewery just charge a premium for the beer than hide behind a poorly executed dinner, but the end result is roughly the same.

 

I know that everybody has their own preferences when it comes to beer tastes, but it seems to be most prominent with the strong stouts. When I had the Silva on tap during SD Beer Week (they had some left over a day after the Green Flash event), I was not blown away. I really dug the smoothness, but it was a bit too much of a bourbon explosion for me. I can see why somebody that likes the bourbon taste would be into it, though.

 

Somebody at Green Flash, maybe THE somebody, does not seem to be enamored with the ticket system.