Big score from the big store

It pays to keep your eyes open. You never know when a supermarket is going to have a saavy buyer who takes advantage of the huge quantities of crappy beer they buy from distributors to parlay that history into some nice buys, and usually at lower-than-bottleshop prices.

 

One day circling the beer section at TW in Towson, I found a limitless supply of one week old FW Double Jack...then I woke up.

It is hard to find anything note worthy in Baltimore. Yet right now Pannepot Grand Reserva 2009 is waiting for me to pluck all of them off the shelves.

 

I thought Founders Oatmeal Stout was draft only?

 

An entire cart filled with: Evil Twin/Prairie Bible Belt, Prairie Bomb, 2013 Deschutes Mirror Mirror, Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel, Clown Shoes Undead Party Crasher, Clown Shoes Luchador En Fuego, and then I passed out from stout shock.

Once I awoke I proceeded to buy at least one of each of the beers I listed. Since they were in a cart, they had no price tags. As I walked up to the register all these thoughts started flying through my head like: "Holy shit this is going to be expensive. Why am I buying all of these? Stouts aren't my preference, I simply wanted a sixer of Boulevard Pop-Up. Ah screw it.".

I about crapped myself when I saw the price for Bible Belt, but everything else was around what I thought it was going to be. I walked out of Hy-Vee completely broke with a bunch of great stouts, and no Pop-Up. Damn grocery chains.

Another great find was at the same store. The beer dicks hid a couple cases of PsuedoSue behind a keg and some cases of Busch Light. They weren't too happy when I came strolling up with a case of Sue. The clerk looked at me with a face of confusion/anger and said "So uh....you found the PsuedoSue. Uh....ergh...yeah man that beer's awesome! It's my favorite!" and I replied "Yeah this stuff was obviously hidden from the customer, which would have sucked if I didn't know how to look. So I'm going to buy this one case as a prize for finding your secret hiding spot you have for, I'm guessing a lot of your beers." The clerk just looked so sad when he was ringing up my beer that he obviously hid for himself in his crappy secret hideaway.

After that all the big releases are always hidden in the stockroom buy the beer dicks. I walked by it and saw a case of Hopslam with a sixer on top with a few bottles opened. I asked a clerk to grab me a sixer, but she said it was reserved for the manager. I was furious because not only does the "manager" get all the Hopslam, and the employees are drinking a great DIPA at work. Damn beer dicks and their lame beer tricks.

I have no idea why I felt like explaining all of that, but in conclusion! Beer dicks can suck it!

 

I found some Fou Fonne at bizarro Wal Mart once. True story.

 

You would think they would find a better hiding spot, you know like a storage space that only employees can access. Not like one of those walk in fridges where all the customers can go.

 

Stickee Monkee at Costco.Last bottle on the display.

 

I've gotten growlers of Hill Farmstead at a Whole Foods in SE Pennsylvania before.

 

Anytime I get Zombie Dust, it's a big score!

 

Found a enjoy by for 6.49 at whole foods in la. Here you're lucky to find DFH or SN in a chain supermarket

 

Most of my attempts at getting Struisse stuff in MD have ended in disappointment. Loved them over in belgium more than any other beer but stuff here often has a cardboardy taste or other off flavors. I understand that it has a long trek to get her, but I have more issues with their stuff than most others from Belgium. Even kegs of black damnation that show up every now and then seem to be a little off...

 

I grabbed an Armand'4 Herfst off a shelf in Paris last month. That was neat.

Actually snagged a Pannepot Reserva when I was home for the holidays and stopped in at Dawson's (at least I think it was Dawson's).

Also snagged 8x Vigneronne and 8x Cantillon Gueuze in the course of a month at my local World of Beer. I asked for a few, they said "you just want all of them, you seem to really like this one?". How could I resist?

 

Mexican Cake at Whole Foods in....

 

7 bottles of mex cake at tw in sc. A case of bcbs at tw in charlotte, a case of CRWnB at harris teeter, etc

 

BA Narwhal Whole foods Fresno $14.99, BA Narwhal at the Clovis BevMo $15.99. Bought 11 in the last 2 days. Sending them to the four corners of the country in trades now. Kept one for myself.

 

Two bottles Velvet Merkin at Total Wine for $13.99 a bottle. Best price.

 

I've never known beerdicktitude. The places that I know want to sell beer. If the employees wanted to buy the beer they should have had it wrung up and put in a bag. It seems that "beer dick" is a two way street. I guess I just live in a nice place.
I would not frequent a store where I didn't like the business practices.

 

Parabola, Southern Charred, BCBS, Cowiche Canyon, FW 17, Sucaba, Abyss are all beers I consider difficult to obtain that I have gotten at either Bevmo or Total Wine.

Picked up a 4 pack of BCBS and a bottle of FW 17 in the same trip.