Plan Bee - The Hive 2016

Is it normal to have memberships where you're paying $80 a bottle?

 

How are you arriving at this math?

 

"and provides either 6 or 12 750 ml bottles per month."

Think you might have missed this part.

 

Yup, missed the per month part, make a lot more sense ha

 

I joined, but split the membership 4 ways. $15 a bottle ain't bad, but it's a pretty big dollar commitment for a short period of time.

 

I joined as well. I love their beers, so why not. Definitely expensive, but their beers are worth it imo. And Evan is an awesome guy who I have no issues supporting whatsoever.

 

Splitting is not a bad idea at all. I should have thought of that. May see what I can work out.

Prices seem fairly reasonable actually if you commit to a year. Come in way cheap in the $7 a bottle vicinity. Granted, this assumes every bottle is good to great, which can be a crapshoot.

 

They do. My dumbass wasn't thinking and asked earlier ITT if someone would be willing to proxy/trustee for me. Got my post deleted and hit with a 30 day trading ban for the inquiry.

 

Trustees permitted. There is only a 6 month membership term, so the bottles are $15. The two tiers include either 6 or 12 bottles a month. Read the details in the link from OP.

 

Late to the party. I read through and noticed the answer to both of my questions. I should have read that through clearly.

 

Ouch. Sorry to hear.

 

I'd never heard of Plan Bee before seeing this thread, but the beers look interesting and their story is inspring. I sent in my membership application last night and am looking forward to trying these in the new year.

Thanks for the heads up @ArkyVaughan.

 

You nailed it - Evan and Emily are awesome enough people that I would be tempted to buy their beer even it wasn't amazing, fortunately it is. Their sours are pretty much all above par, most of them are delicious. Their saisons tend to be more hit or miss, because Evan experiments with so many different things. And a lot is personal taste, for example I thought Bartlett (which I had for about 9 months before drinking it) was one of their better ones. Most of their beers also evolve with age.

 

Does anyone know how you pick up your bottles if you join the Hive? Do they have set hours?

 

I think they will be selling monthly at a farmers market and I assume you can either pick them up there OR arrange a time to get it at their new location. They are not distributing at all other than that. It's all in the link above.

 

I e-mailed and asked them about pick-up. They seemed incredibly flexible. You don't have to pick up monthly, just pick up all by end of the membership (though I hope to try their brews as quickly as possible). You can go to their farm-brewery or any of the upstate farmers markets they currently attend. They are also trying to get into a farmers market in NYC so that will hopefully be much for convenient for city folks like myself.