Side Project / Shared (2022)

Flim Flam packages up

 

Flim Flam Packages are live

 

SP/Casita Brewing Company Collaboration flim flam

Due to our Holiday Hours, you or your proxy will have 4 weeks to pick up this package. Pickups will begin Friday, Dec. 23rd from 1pm-8pm. We will reopen on Monday, Dec. 26th at 3pm.

Package: SP/Casita Collab flim flam, Coeur de Cuvée Blend #10, Pulling Nails Blend #15 & Red Plum du Blé
$170.00

A blend of Barrel-Aged Rye Barleywines - a heavy Maris Otter malt bill enhanced with 3 different rye malts and then heavily boiled until we hit gravity. After fermenting with a strong English yeast strain, we aged this beer in Willett Rye, Willett Family Estate Bourbon and California Ruby Port barrels for 28 months before picking the final blend. We bottled this beer in June and have let it rest until now to share with you.

ABV: 15% | 750ml

 

Holiest of shits - $170????

 

$170 gonna be a hard pass on this one

 

Puts flim flam at…$60

 

Rye barleywine sounds amazing, and it probably will be, but I passed on the bottle at $60, didn't even think about the package. I just traded for a box of Ryeway/VSOR/Boss Ryeway. My Ryewine itch has been scratched and didn't even break the bank to do it.

 

I’m passing just because of the ridiculous amount I’ve spent on beer the past month or so. No hate at SP for the pack, just sitting this one out.

Cheers!

 

You’re a stronger man then I am, Alex Would have been hard to pass on the single bottle.

 

If they would have bundled it with just one other bottle, maybe two at most, I would have considered it. Is it just me or are these bundles getting bigger?

 

This is where I'm at too - I've spent enough before year end.

 

This is tough because I agree. That beer sounds great to me, but I already have two of the other bottles in the pack. And like @KevinJohnson2 the ridiculous amounts I’ve spent lately gives me pause.

I’ll likely stare at it in the store and if it lingers too long I’ll probably succumb to a purchase.

 

Times are a changing. The beer game is different now than what is was a few years ago. People are willing to spend big money like they used to, and this package is so expensive that after paying a proxy and shipping costs it’s cheaper to just buy secondary.

Not hating on the way these bottles are bundled, but I feel like the days of having FOMO are long gone for me.

 

It's not strictly a price issue either (although that's certainly a factor) but I currently have 15 barleywines sitting in my home office closet/beer cellar and I'm rarely drinking more than 1 high ABV beer in a week so there's just no need to further stock a cellar that's already growing faster than I'm drinking

 

ISO Flim Flam package bundled with a case of Oma or Opa

 

I might have bit at $90, but I don’t need another 3 sours that aren’t selling and might get bundled with something else I care more about for a $60 BW. I certainly don’t need another $200 package.

Incredibly easy pass.

 

Never knew my FOMO had a price until today.

Still, no F's given for SP. It sold out in 30ish min.

 

Ironically, this is the one time I logged on and noticed the package was up like even a minute before it was posted here - so I could easily have jumped all over it - but just didn't have it in me this time around.

 

I do like that they notify folks of sales via the email push now instead of relying solely on IG. I have been trying to rid myself of IG for a while now and was hanging on bc of SP. It also seems most fair this way. Anyway.. I could really only see myself pulling the trigger on any package now if I’ve got a group of buddies to split it with as kind of a pre-made share.

 

I wonder if it actually sold out, or just the Anabasis “it sold out” BS.