Firestone Walker Barrelworks 2016 Liberations

I'm heading out in the next week to pickup the latest release. Does anyone know what bottles are available to sell in the tasting room?

 

Same, I'll be there this weekend. Will let you know the bottles-to-go list.

First time vising Barrelworks /Buellton/Solvang, if anyone has any newbie tips or suggestions let me know.

 

Drink Bravo if they have it on tap at Barrelworks, and lots of it.

Visit Industrial Eats within stumbling distance of Firestone Walker for a solid meal.

Saarloos & Sons in Los Olivos if you're into wine.

 

You will need to drive to Industrial Eats....not a short walk, but well worth it
Skip Sarloos and go to Stolpman Winery.....you wont be disappointed

 

Thanks, sounds good.

I will definitely check out industrial eats.

What kind of wine?

My wife loves port \ dessert \ ice wine.

 

Rhone. Incredible stuff. They have a legit late harvest viognier if thats your wife's thing. I would recommend the sangiovese. All of them. 2012 is straight concentrated blueberry juice. Phenomenal.

 

might be headed up Sat as well to pick mine up. wish the train stopped in Buellton

 

Bretta rose
Imperial smoked walkers reserve
Lil opal
Feral one
Helldorado
Sucaba
Double rye dba
Bretta weisse

 

Nice , thanks much!

How were the tasters of the sours ?

 

Huck yeah tasted great. They also had on sloAmbic, sour opal, a kiwi one, and a few others.

 

So parabajava is being released again sept 24th

 

Great, it's been a while since I've participated in an utter infuriating clusterfuck.

 

at least this time you don't have to drive so far away. You just have to get through Venice traffic and submit a drivers license, blood sample and oath you will not by any more forever.

 

So def. on the 24th. All locations. I wonder how bad the Venice location will be that day. By the love of god, please, firestone, don't under estimate how many people will be going there like you folks did with Barrelworks last year.

 

agreed. i will be there. please dear God don't sell out!

 

limit 4 per person and 500 cases TOTAL across all properties.... this one wont end well lol

 

Each FW location will receive their full allocation for this beer, meaning when it's sold out, it's officially sold out. We are making accommodations to ensure each location can store their entire allocation cold and on-site so the fiasco that occurred last year will not happen again this year.
Just doing some quick math though....
500 cases x 12 bottles = 6,000 bottles total
6k divided by three FW locations = 2k bottles per location
2k bottles divided by four bottles max purchase per person = 500 people have the ability at each location to max out.

Will each person max out? I have no clue (I personally have no need for four bottles of Parabajava considering this beer should not be aged). But there ya have it. If anyone wants to avoid what happened last year, it's me, so here's to hoping everything goes smoothly

 

This sounds like it will be a disaster.