Coolship Party and Bottle Release

I feel like you constantly suggest these things under the guise of better for their business when in reality it is simply more convenient for you. He clearly stated that he's not sure what to expect so if you want bottles buy the ticket and if you can't make it find a trustee. You always state in numerous other threads how nice it is for CA breweries to use a ticketed system like BPT. A brewery finally uses it around here and immediately you expect them to use a different method.

 

Loyal readers- I'm thrilled that they are using BPT. I believe that almost every small brewery will be using ticketing releases for bottles within a year or two. It just works better. So yes, I think FF is making a smart move by doing so. It also allows them to figure out how many bottles they'll presumably sell that night.

I was simply asking if any remaining bottles (if he sells out via BPT there will still be remaining bottles) will be made available the next afternoon. That's a decision FF & O'so are going to have to make at some point, and it behooves them to make it before the event gets here. If they say yes, they'll get a crush of CW anny folks on Saturday and they'll want to be ready. If they say no, then folks will know that they'll have to rely on a proxie.

I have nothing at stake with this release- I'm not planning on attending or being in the area that weekend. But having watched numerous breweries go through growing pains w/ releases, I think they could save themselves some of those pains be doing a little homework on how other small breweries have done it successfully. And believe it or not, while it might not be all about my convenience, every great brewery does understand that it is about the customer's convenience. That's why Alpine sold to Green Flash. It's why Stone has stores all over SoCal. It's why pick-up windows on BPT releases work so well. And you know what? It goes hand-in-hand with profit.

So by all means, keep up with my posts and keep responding. I love beer as much as you guys do and dare I say I love talking/writing about it even more.

tschüß.

 

Understood.

 

Bloviate - talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way

 

Looks like I'll be taking a drive eastward at the end of Jan. to try and get my hands on some of the leftover bottles from both events. (I'm assuming CW will still be selling 17 out of the brewery, if the amount of 16 produced is any indication).

 

And we're live!

Question: In the event of a blizzard that makes travel impossible on Jan 23 (rare chance) do we just lose our money?

 

umpossible!

 

Just an fyi, but the ticket sales for 16 never sold out so 17 is probably a lot more limited and will most likely be gone during the party. Unless they are trying to build hype or something by only making a portion of the tickets available beforehand

 

I'll take my chances. Never been to that part of the state anyway. Thanks for the heads up though.

 

Its a christmas miracle

 

I want these so badly! Can anyone be a trustee for me? I'll send back the box with some goodies!

 

Hey guys I'm going to need a trustee for this event, so if anyone is going, and can do this hit me up! I can Pay pal, send a thank you shipper, which you can in turn ship back with a label I provide to make it as pain free as possible. PM me if you can do this.

 

Add me to the list of people looking for a trustee. Can load up a thank you box with bcbs or whatever you are into and provide a shipping label as well.

 

Lol I would do all of this too.

 

I am more than willing to trustee for anyone. I live 1.5 hours away and am going up there to pick up some beers for myself and a buddy. Would prefer that you provide a shipping label/carton and purchase the beers beforehand on Brown Paper Tickets. Just PM me if you are interested.

 

found a trustee thanks

 

I placed an order for a few of these - would somebody be able to help me out as a trustee? Also, if you got Door Kriek and are willing to trade a bottle, let me know and I can send something out with my "thank you" box.

 

^ yep, just noticed Door Kriek is sold out....

 

Just saw that I waited to long to get door kriek.

If anyone has an extra they wouldn't mind parting with please pm me I've been dying to try this.