2014 Bruery Reserve Society Preview

Memberships for the 2014 Reserve Society are available exclusively to current members only until October 1, 2013.

Membership for 2014 includes the following (subject to change):
Included in the Initial Package, available in January:
-- 1 bottle of Bois
-- 1 bottle of Sans Pagaie
-- 2 bottles of Chocolate Rain
-- 1 piece of high quality merchandise

Available later in 2014, upon announcement:
-- 1 bottle of So Happens Its Tuesday
-- 2 bottles of Rum Barrel Aged Black Tuesday®
-- 2 bottles Barrel Aged 6 Geese-A-Laying

Other Perks:

-- Guaranteed access to many limited releases throughout the year.
-- 15% off: Allocations and other purchases through The Bruery website and at the Tasting Room (with some exceptions to items offered at a higher discount).
-- Access to special growler fills, special flights, and Reserve Society events
-- First right of refusal to join the 2015 Reserve Society
-- Climate controlled storage of your online allocation purchases until March 31st, 2015
-- Shipping within California (at an extra cost)
-- Option to order online and pick up in person at the Tasting Room

Membership begins on January 1st, 2014 and ends December 31st, 2014

We anticipate the following beers to be released to the Reserve Society in 2014*:

So Happens It's Tuesday -- Society Exclusive
Chocolate Rain -- Society Exclusive
Filmishmish
Tripel Tonnellerie - Barrel Fermented Tripel (Preservation Series)
Local Collab. #1
Bois Fume
Smoking Wood Rye
Smoking Wood Bourbon
Smooth Criminal
Sour in the Rye
White Oak
Sucré - 6th Anniversary - Many different spirit barrel aged varieties
Soroboruo - Scotch Ale aged in Scotch Barrels - Society Exclusive
Couverteur - Chocolate Dubbel (Preservation Series)
Grey Monday - Society Exclusive
Rue D' Floyd - Bourbon - Society Exclusive
Rue D' Floyd - Rum - Society Exclusive
Sans Pagaie
Cherry Oude Tart
Local Collaboration #2
Oude Tart
Ignus Fatuus - Pumpkin Imperial Porter (Preservation Series)
Tart of Darkness
Tart of Darkness w/ Cherries & Vanilla - Society Exclusive
White Chocolate
Mash
Mash & Coconut
Barrel Aged 6 Geese a Laying - Society Exclusive
Black Tuesday - Bourbon
Black Tuesday - Rum (included with membership, no further allocations available) - Society Exclusive
Melange #1
Melange #3
Oaked Old Richland (Preservation Series)
Rueuze
Rum Barrel Aged Autumn Maple
2 mystery barrel aged beers! - Both Society Exclusives!

 

Unless I'm mistaken, I think I've read that no additional rum Black Tuesdays will be available for purchase for reserve members. May be part of it.

 

Looks like I may be joining again this year

 

This year's line-up is leaps and bounds better than next years. Bummer.

 

Couldn't possibly agree more.

 

Totally respect your opinion, but I'm wondering why you think this is? There's about 10 more beers to choose from in 2014 than in 2013. We're always looking for ways to improve so your perspective would be helpful to me.

Cheers,
Patrick
The Bruery

 

patty boy just called your ish out.

 

I hope my response didn't come across this way. Honestly just looking for why Corbet / Greenplastic615 think this is. I'm guessing they want more fruited sour beers, but perhaps its something else.

 

nope, just messing around, hope Belgium was fun and productive. cant wait for next year!

 

This is absolutely it, I enjoy your sours more than your darker beers. You guys have probably backed yourself in a corner - as a Bruery fan, I expect new and interesting society exclusives - 2014's Society Exclusives seem to lean more toward different barrel treatments instead of new and different exclusive beers. Rue D'Floyd will probably be awesome but I'm fine settling with the non-RS version, for example.

I can only count 3 new beers that are exclusive - So Happens It's Tuesday, Soroboruo, and Tart of Darkness w/ Cherries & Vanilla. Last year you had 5 new beers that were RS exclusives and 3 of them were sours, which made it easy to justify a membership.

It seems to me that you're not sure what to do with the Reserve Society - the Hoarders get the really limited offerings while the Preservation Society members are guaranteed certain bottles without having to worry about them selling out. The Reserve Society is becoming harder to justify and the Hoarders Society seems to be significantly better next year - it's a shame I didn't qualify for it.

As somebody with a closet full of Bruery bottles and a member of the RS for 2 years, I hope I'm not coming off as a hater - I really do enjoy Bruery beers and my wallet can attest to that.

 

see I'm the opposite. I don't care too much for The Bruery sours, but I really like their darker, barrel aged offerings and their saisons.

Maybe we should have two different reserve societies.

 

I agree completely, looking foward to 2014 more than 2013.

 

I'm not sure that necessarily all of these reasons for RS "hate" are justified. The membership price is basically prepaying for the nine beers and a piece of merchandise. So, either way, if you plunk down for the membership, you know you're at least getting your money's worth in product. After that, you get access to whatever you want on the list at a discount.

Even if you only opt to try out 10 or less of the 37 beers on the offering list, you haven't lost anything, and it's 10 more beers you get to try than if you hadn't joined. If it doesn't sound worth it to you, I guess that's fine, but just remember that tastes are subjective. No need to rain on anyone's parade.

 

Very true, that's the way I look at it. I pay $295 to get the following beers with the right to purchase a select number of additional bottles at a discount. No obligation to purchase any of the other beers.

-- 1 bottle of Bois
-- 1 bottle of Sans Pagaie
-- 2 bottles of Chocolate Rain
-- 1 bottle of So Happens Its Tuesday
-- 2 bottles of Rum Barrel Aged Black Tuesday®
-- 2 bottles Barrel Aged 6 Geese-A-Laying

 

The most interesting angle I'm picking up here is that hopefully 2015 is a better balance between sours and non-sours for RS members.