2014 Bourbon County Brands release - Chicagoland

@Jaycase, that was actually me writting that to the local corner liquor store near me all the way out in Oswego. Small world. I did give him a call/text him and he let me know that Prop was sold out but that he would lower the 4pk price to 28.99 for me. I passed.

 

Has anyone heard of small mom and pop stores getting variants this week? Seems like a lot of shops got regular but not a lot of additional variants hitting the market. Seems like a lot of Prop is still missing compared to last year. And since both years had 88 barrels something doesn't seem to add up, unless they held a lot back or put a lot more into Kegs.

 

I've seen some mom and pop's get the bombers and others not get them. Of course they're telling me they didn't get them and could be lying. Hard to say. The consistent message I've heard, which has been stated already is, "our allocations are no where near where they were last year".

 

Just noticed the auto correct, meant to say "mentioned" not "ruined". Thanks to all for the friendly tips and advice.

 

damnit wish my job would let me out early

 

Don't feel so bad. Based on what I've seen of this release, you could've had the whole day off and still wouldn't have gotten any. That is, unless you would be willing to stand in line since the night before

Cheers!

 

Haha, I should bring my parents with to get extra pours.

 

I called Foremost Liquors (in that stripmall at Ashland & Wellington, behind the Dunkin Donuts & Boston Market), the guy I talked to told me they would be getting their allocation on Friday around 1pm. He didn't know if they had a list, or if it would be first-come. He also didn't know if they'd be getting regular only, or varieties too.

 

They got their shipment and sold through it Friday. I doubt they are getting a second unless it is just regular.

 

Four pack of reg is only $44 out the door at Payless Liquors in Roselle.

 

No bombers per Evanston law (except E1st exempted for some reason, and they released/sold out last Friday).

I was in Whole Foods near Chicago/Dempster when they rolled their allocation in around 11:30 - 10 cases of regular, they were allowing 2x 4packs at $24.99. There were 10 people in line in front of me, so potentially 1/3 was gone at the drop.

Whole Foods on Chicago/Davis released at 1 - I called at 1:20, they had plenty of regular it sounded like, and "about a case of BW left" - so I shot down and was able to get a 4-pack of BW. They got some coffee too, but insta-sellout (obviously, gone by the 1:20 call, but I heard it referenced in the store).

Sorry this info wasn't more timely, stupid work.

 

Anyone have a pic of what was going on at Walgreens - for science?

 

Unlike wine, beer is more dependent on the talent of the brewer than the ingredients going in. Every brewery (and home brewer) has access to essentially the same ingredients. Water might be the biggest factor, but most places have systems that can adjust that.

And I dont buy the premium barrel argument. Goose Island still has the best barrel aged beers using templeton rye and evan williams barrels. Hardly prestigious. Boris van wink was garbage using the barrels that give beer geeks the biggest hard ons. Goose make better ba stouts because they started doing it 20 years before everyone else.

 

The consist ant message seems the be places are lying. And I don't know why, maybe to piss off the least amount of people possible.

I walked into a jewel this afternoon, a bud distributor was delivering 312, jackpot i thought. he said this jewel got theirs last week. Any variants around here? he said - only place that I delivered them today was xxx. OK thanks. Went to xxx. Sorry we didnt get any this year. So either the delivery guy or the liquor store was full of it.

Also another store, gave me two different stories on consecutive days. last week it was try back next week. yesterday it was try back later this week. Today it was we got it last week and its gone.

 

One big difference is while Mondavi sells a shit-ton of his entry level wines at Jewel, you won't find Opus One there...

 

Lakeview Whole Foods has some regular left but is sold out of everything else. Ask the people at the cheese corner in the back right of the store.

 

I am not disagreeing that the talent of the brewer is of paramount importance in making a great beer. However, the talent of the winemaker is incredibly important as there are a tremendous amount of variables that go into making great wine such as: when to pick the grapes, which grapes to pick, what percentage of new versus old oak to use, whether to use American or European oak barrels (in some cases what forest to pick wood from), how long to leave the wine in the barrel plus numerous other variables. In Champagne's case the winemaker may blend 50 different lots to make one expression of wine (i.e. Krug).

 

My point wasn't that wine making requires no talent, it was that the availability of the proper ingredients is vastly different.