Brews for New Avenues 2014

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  1. teddyarrowhead

    teddyarrowhead Initiate (0) Oct 23, 2009 Oregon

    Auction items list updated including the lots and table assignments on a separate tab (you can generally gather what's in each lot by cross-referencing the individual items list). I'll put the full live list up on a third tab later tonight.

    http://goo.gl/ZluEav
     
    #21 teddyarrowhead, Sep 6, 2014
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  2. Phobicsquirrel

    Phobicsquirrel Initiate (0) Oct 1, 2013 Oregon

    great list. mmmm RARE! lol.
     
    #22 Phobicsquirrel, Sep 6, 2014
  3. crusian

    crusian Pooh-Bah (1,989) May 14, 2010 Oregon
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    Did I get that eclipse series at the end of the night? I think I may have.
     
    #23 crusian, Sep 7, 2014
  4. TapThat

    TapThat Devotee (369) Nov 8, 2012 Oregon

    Probably one of the best run beer events I've been to. Never a long wait for a beer, and as anyone who looks at the draft list can see there were some great beers to choose from. The auction events were pretty fun to watch and the "Wall of Beer" was great (wound up with a heady and dark lord).

    Kudos to Jeremy and the rest of the folks who put this on, I'll definitely be back next year.
     
    #24 TapThat, Sep 7, 2014
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  5. BoodyBeer

    BoodyBeer Devotee (327) May 28, 2005 Massachusetts

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  6. digita7693

    digita7693 Initiate (0) Jan 19, 2010 Germany

    You all are amazing!!!

    Thank you so much for the support. We hope to see you all again next year:slight_smile:

    Cheers
    Don
     
    #26 digita7693, Sep 8, 2014
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  7. oregonskibum

    oregonskibum Initiate (0) Mar 14, 2009 Oregon

    Yah, I got a 12 oz pale ale that was a month past its best buy date on one wall, then a Marshall Zhukov on another. So it evened out over all.

    But yes, a great event all the way around!
     
    #27 oregonskibum, Sep 8, 2014
  8. teddyarrowhead

    teddyarrowhead Initiate (0) Oct 23, 2009 Oregon

    First off - thank you to everyone who attended and donated for your generous support!

    As for the wall of beer complaints, we had donations coming in from all over the country, and the world. While we were able to put things like Dark Lord, Heady, Cantillon Kriek, Black Tuesday, etc. up there, given the volume of donations, we simply didn't have the time or resources (almost half of the 600+ bottles we received for the event arrived/were donated in the 10 days previous) to look up the BA review of every single bottle. Someone obtained that (beer geek or not), decided to donate it, and somehow got it to us because they wanted to help our cause. We take that very seriously, and don't turn anything away.

    Between myself and the other co-chairs of the event, we have a fairly in-depth knowledge of beer (or so we think), and the best we could do was decide if this was a worthy silent/live auction beer, or a wall beer. The vast majority of the beers on the wall were worth $10 or more (especially considering most of them were out-of-market, vintage, etc.), but there were a few that were not.

    All of that being said, we are constantly striving to improve, and take constructive criticism seriously. If someone would like to volunteer to screen wall beers for best-by dates, look up BA reviews, etc. and has ideas of what else we can do with those bottles, please BM me.

    Finally, although you may be disappointed in what you received from the wall compared to others, I hope you take pride in the fact that all of that $10 goes toward helping homeless and at-risk youth in Portland.
     
    #28 teddyarrowhead, Sep 8, 2014
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  9. Phobicsquirrel

    Phobicsquirrel Initiate (0) Oct 1, 2013 Oregon

    How do you determine what beers for silent or live auction? Sounds like a great time. Hoping to make it next year. There is so much beer things to do its hard for us to keep up. BTW, what did Dave go for anyone know?
     
    #29 Phobicsquirrel, Sep 8, 2014
  10. TapThat

    TapThat Devotee (369) Nov 8, 2012 Oregon

    I feel for you bro
     
    #30 TapThat, Sep 8, 2014
  11. kscaldef

    kscaldef Initiate (0) Jun 11, 2010 Oregon

    FWIW, I think the average quality on the Wall of Beer was considerably higher than the Wall of Wine at similar charity events I've been to. (And half the cost per pick.)
     
    #31 kscaldef, Sep 8, 2014
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  12. Kurmaraja

    Kurmaraja Initiate (0) May 21, 2013 California
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    Wall of beer suggestion.

    Though this might be too complicated ... it might be fun to allow people that take a beer from the wall of beer to do a one time "do over" each round for, say, $20. The way I imagine this working is you pay your $10, you get a beer (say that sierra blanca pale the poster above noted), you're not happy with it you can decide right then to pay $20 for a "trade in" and whatever you get then is it. Would make the wall of beer take a bit longer but the line seemed to go fast.

    I actually LIKE the idea of having a small number of the beers be sub-par; makes spectating more fun! But this makes it more like a game show. The only potential downside I see in the "do over" is that you could end up with a lot of janky beers at the end, but I don't think that would happen because the $20 "do over" fee is sufficiently high and the chance your second choice will be another sub-par beer increases with time.
     
    #32 Kurmaraja, Sep 8, 2014
  13. Kurmaraja

    Kurmaraja Initiate (0) May 21, 2013 California
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    That's the pessimists perspective; you donated $10 to charity and got a free beer for it!
     
    #33 Kurmaraja, Sep 8, 2014
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  14. Eighty

    Eighty Pundit (839) Feb 17, 2013 Washington

    What's the incentive to do the $20 "do over" instead of just paying $10 for another pull from the wall? Was it limit 1 per person?
     
    #34 Eighty, Sep 8, 2014
  15. teddyarrowhead

    teddyarrowhead Initiate (0) Oct 23, 2009 Oregon

    I'll address some of the other questions in a bit, but preliminary totals are in. :: drumroll ::

    All of you fine folks helped us raise over $36,000 for homeless and at-risk youth in Portland!!!

    We still have a few things being calculated, but that far exceedes our $30k goal for this year and is a 50% increase from the $24,000 we raised last year!

    THANK YOU!
     
    #35 teddyarrowhead, Sep 8, 2014
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  16. oregonskibum

    oregonskibum Initiate (0) Mar 14, 2009 Oregon

    My complaint, if you want to even call it that, is not with the organizers. I'm just a little disappointed that someone thought it was appropriate to donate that particular bottle to an event like BFNA.
     
    #36 oregonskibum, Sep 8, 2014
  17. BoodyBeer

    BoodyBeer Devotee (327) May 28, 2005 Massachusetts

    Oh I completely agree - I didn't mean to say I wouldn't have done it over again even knowing what beer I'd get. And with the VIP and silent auction beers I took home I still feel like I got one hell of an awesome deal with money going to a good cause.

    It's just more fun to open a more interesting beer - and the post above is right, it's really on whomever would donate something like that on not on the organizer's at all.
     
    #37 BoodyBeer, Sep 8, 2014
  18. crusian

    crusian Pooh-Bah (1,989) May 14, 2010 Oregon
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    I can't believe people are really complaining about the wall of beer. I think he was more or less joking. I gave $10 and all I got was this shitty beer. It's funny. Like a zonk or a whammy. It's all in good fun. Crap beer in there makes it more fun. Lauren got a 10 barrel pale ale. Lol. But then @maltmaster420 traded her for some reason, so... Thanks for that, lol.
    Great time all around, glad the goal was surpassed. That's awesome!
     
    #38 crusian, Sep 8, 2014
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  19. teddyarrowhead

    teddyarrowhead Initiate (0) Oct 23, 2009 Oregon

    It's a combination of rarity, uniqueness, completeness (for a vertical/horizontal), etc. So something like the Geuzestraminer and Grote Dorst bottles are obvious, as with Dave, the full Abyss vertical, the de Garde Black Raz Bu 3L (they donated 4 3L bottles, but the Black Raz was the obvious live contender because that beer is phenomenal and sold out quickly at the release), etc. etc.

    We also don't want to have too many live items in the interests of time. Things like Blauw, Izzy, the other de Garde 3Ls, etc. could have easily been live, but those things can get tedious if they go on too long.

    Dave went for $1,400, but the Geuzestraminer took top dollar honors at $1,900.
     
    #39 teddyarrowhead, Sep 8, 2014
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  20. maltmaster420

    maltmaster420 Initiate (0) Aug 17, 2005 Oregon

    There's two things I can think of w/r/t "less valuable" bottles on the wall of beer:

    Mixed 6pks: Last year there were a few dummy bottles on the wall that had a note on them saying something like "Short's 6 pack", and when someone picked that bottle a volunteer reached under the table and pulled out a variety pack of tasty beer. Perhaps assembling the cheaper beers into variety packs worth ~$10 would help take the sting off of not getting something rare.

    Supplemental gift certificates: Reach out to the various bottle shops and beer bars and get an assortment of $10-20 gift certificates. Wrap a gift certificate around the less valuable bottles so that the cheap beer is simply a bonus on top of the "free money" you get to spend someplace on beer you really want.
     
    #40 maltmaster420, Sep 8, 2014
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