Have the beer gods answered YOUR prayers?

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  1. fmccormi

    fmccormi Initiate (0) Oct 24, 2010 California

    Because I'm pretty sure they may have answered mine. Just saw this little nugget slip through the interwebs, and I have to admit it's gotten me pretty excited:

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    Full disclosure, I love Ommegang. I may be rightly accused of being kind of a 'gang fanboy. But with all these threads going around about spring and summer seasonals recently, this one has gotten me really excited. I'm always asking, directly or indirectly, for more affordable, small-format saisons and Belgian pale ales—and especially ones that actually have some hop character—particularly for the warmer months.

    And then this came along. 6.8% ABV is not too big and definitely not too small, the 12oz / 355ml bottle size is awesome for my consumption trends, and I trust Ommegang to do well with the "Belgian" side of this, because I think they're consistently good if not great and I like their characteristic yeast strain(s).

    So I ask you, BA, at times in the past have you felt like maybe there are some beer gods out there that listen to your prayers and have answered one or two of them? And if it's never happened, what do you hope is just over the horizon?
     
    #1 fmccormi, Jan 22, 2013
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  2. ilikebeer03

    ilikebeer03 Pooh-Bah (2,616) Oct 17, 2012 Texas
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    Goose Island will be distributed nationwide. (It's beginning to show up in Texas. Draft, anyway) Hoping to see some BCBS!
     
    #2 ilikebeer03, Jan 22, 2013
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  3. Horbar

    Horbar Pooh-Bah (1,593) Feb 24, 2012 Rhode Island
    Pooh-Bah

    Nope, I still don't live in northern Vermont.....:slight_frown:
     
    #3 Horbar, Jan 22, 2013
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  4. tjensen3618

    tjensen3618 Maven (1,391) Mar 23, 2008 California

    Nope, Alesmith still doesn't bottle date, or put their regular lineup in 6 packs.

    If they did both, I would buy a TON of their IPA, Nut Brown, X, and Anvil.
     
    #4 tjensen3618, Jan 22, 2013
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  5. beerborn

    beerborn Initiate (0) Jan 22, 2012 Louisiana

    Beer Gods...nope, still haven't laid taste to a cherry rye or coffee unfortunately
     
    #5 beerborn, Jan 22, 2013
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  6. checktherhyme

    checktherhyme Savant (1,036) Apr 8, 2008 Washington

    Sucks year round
     
    #6 checktherhyme, Jan 22, 2013
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  7. MADPolo

    MADPolo Initiate (0) Dec 19, 2012 Alabama

    Nope, Founders has announced distribution in FL with zero news of when and Goose Island is only distributing there mass produced beers in parts of FL with no mention of ever seeing their seasonals or bourbon county line.

    Nothing like teasing a brother!
     
    #7 MADPolo, Jan 22, 2013
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  8. rmalinowski4

    rmalinowski4 Pundit (753) Oct 22, 2010 Illinois

    No.
     
    #8 rmalinowski4, Jan 22, 2013
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  9. Thickfreakness

    Thickfreakness Initiate (0) Oct 2, 2010 New York

    No IIPA from the Bruery, no BBA RIS from Russian River... nope!
     
    #9 Thickfreakness, Jan 22, 2013
  10. SeaOfShells

    SeaOfShells Initiate (0) Feb 22, 2011 California

    Sure, I suppose. I like seeing a few Jester King beers on shelves now, and I definitely won't complain about Boulevard being available. Otherwise, no. Bells still isn't in CA, so Hopslam still has to be traded for.
     
    #10 SeaOfShells, Jan 22, 2013
  11. ThisWangsChung

    ThisWangsChung Pooh-Bah (2,988) Oct 15, 2011 Maryland
    Pooh-Bah

    Well, I was able to snag BCBCS for $12 when it seemed like the store that carried it was all out...
     
    #11 ThisWangsChung, Jan 22, 2013
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  12. gatornation

    gatornation Grand High Pooh-Bah (10,388) Apr 18, 2007 Arizona
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    Walked into a store 2day to buy a 4 pk of Abrasive and on the shelf was Black Note just sitting there
     
    #12 gatornation, Jan 22, 2013
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  13. bleakies

    bleakies Maven (1,355) Apr 11, 2011 Massachusetts

    Pretty Things has brought back a few of their "Once Upon a Time" historical recreation beers and introduced a new old one, an IPA from the 1870s, but in the final analysis I'm an atheist so I don't credit this to any "Beer Gods" but rather to the mysterious actions of extraterrestrial astronauts who made contact with humans on the eve of the Neolithic era in what would become known as the Fertile Crescent.
     
    #13 bleakies, Jan 22, 2013
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  14. PatriotsRule

    PatriotsRule Initiate (0) Sep 25, 2012 Massachusetts

    Harpoon Rye IPA became year round last year I think. It was a true blessing!
     
    #14 PatriotsRule, Jan 22, 2013
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  15. JulianB

    JulianB Initiate (0) Feb 1, 2012 South Carolina

    Showed up at the US Olympic T&F trials to find out that Deschutes would be doing free tastings of Abyss, Stoic, and Black Butte XXII all week.
     
    #15 JulianB, Jan 22, 2013
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  16. Chrome_Dome

    Chrome_Dome Initiate (0) Dec 19, 2012 Ohio

    got an e-mail from a buddy that "State Rep. Dan Ramos, D-Lorain is about to reintroduce a bill to increase the 12% ABV cap on beer to 21% ABV" here in Ohio, which isn't quite a prayer answered yet.... but a prayer most definitely in progress..
     
    #16 Chrome_Dome, Jan 22, 2013
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  17. jglowe77

    jglowe77 Initiate (0) Jan 24, 2011 Massachusetts

    The beer gods answered my prayers the first time I drank from a can of Heady Topper (sometime this summer). Everything afterwards has been details, and minor at that.
     
    #17 jglowe77, Jan 22, 2013
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  18. jesskidden

    jesskidden Grand Pooh-Bah (3,145) Aug 10, 2005 New Jersey
    Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    Hmmm...
    So in this scenario the entity normally considered the Devil * on the BA forums is working with the Beer Gods? :wink:

    *aka "AB-InBev"​
     
    #18 jesskidden, Jan 22, 2013
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  19. jglowe77

    jglowe77 Initiate (0) Jan 24, 2011 Massachusetts

    I think you've watched 2001 a few too many times :stuck_out_tongue:
     
    #19 jglowe77, Jan 22, 2013
  20. ChanChan

    ChanChan Maven (1,341) Dec 12, 2009 California

    No, I wake up every morning hoping a bottle of rare is at my feet!!
     
    #20 ChanChan, Jan 22, 2013
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