Firestone Walker PNC Stout

Maybe you didn't get the memo. We're indifferent about beer.

 

Oh I got the memo, but when I saw it was about beer I decided it wasn't worth my time to read it.

 

Seattle: The land where rare beers are no longer rare.

 

Gotta love our region. Exciting beer release and nobody cares. Says alot about the quantity of great brew and producers. We are all very lucky!

To the point of the thread though: we've been looking into some Tequila barrels. Anyone care to swap some bottles? My experience is limited, and I'd love to get a sense of what they bring to the party.
We've got bottles of our Blu Weisse (blueberry spontaneously fermented Berliner) as well as our Mulligan (Spontaneously Gin barrel fermented India Wild Ale) coming out in the next few weeks if any thoughtful soul were interested. Mulligan should be out in the next week, Blu a few weeks out.
Won't ship beer, but could certainly arrange an in person trade or set some bottles aside somewhere since we don't make it out much anymore. It'd likely have to be PDX though. Sorry!

 

Horrible release. While I was sleeping in, dozens of people cut in line in front of me from 11AM til around 1 when I got there! I had to open the door myself, wait behind some guy buying something other than this .rar beer, and then they had the audacity to offer PNC on tap too?!

This ordeal consumed almost an hour of my day. I'm moving to the Midwest!

 

Is 450 cases considered rare? After all, that amounts to a bottle for every man, woman, and child in Connell, WA.
And they have their own website and everything!
(Seriously though? I'm going to wipe this smug grin off my face right now. We're tempting fate, people.)

 

I got a Pinot Didactic from Justice while I was there. Only 78 bottles made. The label said it was made in Everett, but that's a misprint.

 

How many cases did they start with, maybe 40-50? Seems like it might all be gone today.

 

Bottleworks site says "We will have roughly the same number of cases of this as we did our Bruery XII re-release..." and they had 40 cases of BWXII.

 

If you all follow @bottleworks, they've been counting the cases down all day. As of 3 pm, there were 18 cases left.

 

After an early spike, all afternoon they seem to be going at a clip of around 3 cases per hour:
11:38: 30 cases
12:11: 24 cases
1:48: 21 cases
3:01: 18 cases
4:12: 13 cases

 

Now down to 13 cases

 

I was there around 2:30 with my dog Rufus and the place was pretty full, but mostly from good folks sitting around drinking beer and shooting the shit. There was no line at the register and a good time was had by all. Gotta love the Land of Indifference and No Rare Beer.

 

Down to 6 cases

 

Had to expect that stuff to go fast once the working stiffs got off of work...

 

Would have gone even faster were it not for horrendous traffic hitting the area today....3 cases left.

 

3 cases as of 5 minutes ago

 

1 case left.

 

Thanks for the tip, I grabbed one of each (bourbon, pinot, pumkpin). Might be a mistake, but seeing sours from Washington makes me excited.

 

2 bottles left as of 8:12. Doesn't appear to be on tap either. I'm guessing if you didn't get any by now, you're SOL.