Bourbon County 2017

Those guys have unique 3 Floyds one offs that you have to drive to Munster for, European sours that no one else has on, and what seems like an unhealthy partnership with Dark Horse stuff. They aren't competing with brewpubs and have a fairly unique craft selection. If they are having issues, it isn't from brewpubs. As a side note, they are for all intents and purposes a brewpub as they have their own line of beer there, it is just contract brewed elsewhere....

 

Still on, if anyone needs a case...Whole Foods Green Bay Road.

 

True story -

My coworker has recently gotten into beer, not least because he sits next to me and watches me trade beer with people at work.

So, he got into the BCS Hunt this year. He proudly announced that he got a coffee on Black Friday, and had that (plus his regular) sitting prominently in his apartment.

Fast forward to New Year’s Eve. He’s offering drinks to guests, when he see a friend slugging beer in a koozie from a dark bottle. To his horror, he sees his friend has grabbed his coffee - the guy had no idea it wasn't just “beer.” So he steals the bottle from his lips and finishes it off, along with the rest of his BCS.

Now, several bottles in, he realizes they need more beer, so they go to a nearby corner shop (wicker park).

As he tells me this morning, his friend who had stole his beer said, hey, look, I found a lot more hidden away! To his delight, he finds and immediately buys 4 proprietors, each at $25! And there was more on the shelf! This was too good to be true, I told him, but he insisted! He was a little hazy on the details, but he was pretty confident he got four prop. Maybe just two. But probably four.

So we went back today to the store to check if they still had more. Alas, just regular and barley wine.

Well, he just texted me to confirm his haul... only, when he looked where he had hidden his stash, he had...

One regular
One barleywine
One Northwoods ($40 sticker)

I got a big chuckle. There’s a lesson buried in here somewhere, but I’m still looking for it.

 

Two lessons by my math. One, don't drink another man's BCBCS. Two, double check all of your co-worker's work from here on out.

 

I have a party, anything I don't want people to drink gets hidden in a place no one should be looking. If I find you drinking one of my hidden whales, I question why you were searching in the place I hid them....Did the guy know it was BCBS Coffee or did he just grab a beer and cracked it?

 

The latter - no notion of what it was. Probably thought it was a funny tasting Guinness.

 

Hopefully he was a lightweight and that 12+ abv rocked his world....

 

Side story about randos drinking your craft beer: I had a friend who crashed with us for a night and we gave him our keys to get in to our apt because he wanted to stay out later. This dude typically just gets black out drunk and then crashes at our place. Whatever. Never a problem. I had a RR Supplication in my fridge and I woke up in the morning and I noticed the empty beer bottle. I wasn't really upset but I was like "well did you enjoy it?" He goes "I don't remember, I was wasted."

Needless to say, I threw him out my window and never heard from him again

 

This is why you guys need to leave something like an Avery Uncle Jacobs in your fridge. The gold foil will draw the drunkards in and the 17% abv will take them out....

 

Just like old Uncle Jacobs himself.

 

Or wrap the shiny side up of some regular foil on a bottle of The Roister or something equally as tragic.

 

I had to look at this picture a long time before I figured out what the fuck was going on.

The counter/table top where those cases are sitting looks a lot like a floor and the line between table/floor was not obvious at first. The perspective makes it look like these are some cartoonishly large cases of Bourbon County

 

ISO BCBS jeroboam from those giant boxes.

 

Nebuchadnezzar or bust

 

Lol, they look like the size of a refrigerator box....

I like that concept, instead of whoever lines up first and is willing to camp out, the giant bottle goes to whoever can actually carry one and has a van large enough to fit it....

 

There's a guy from the Odd Side 2016 Black Friday release that could fit an entire case of the giant bottles into his Kia Soul...

 

But do the employees have a dolly to help you with it?

 

Looks like a couple cases of deths tar sitting there too. Maybe those too are shelfies in Chicago...

 

We are a spoiled lot. Walked through Binnys today and was surprised at what was sitting around.

 

Deth’s Tar indeed has been readily available here since release. Did it disappear quickly back in MI?