The last release was in November, only 149 bottles (batch 1 was 120), so I'd guess something pretty limited from HF might do it. Upright is weird though bc despite the low numbers, these might sit at the brewery for a while and many of the people don't seem too interested in trading and whatnot (just my impression).
It's not that Upright is weird, it's that Portlanders are weird (and there aren't any traders there ) I have one of Batch 1 (120 bottles) and also Barrel Seven with Brett (i.e. no Apricot, 168 bottles). If I were to trade them I would be looking for other fairly limited brewery stuff, think along the lines of CW Fifteen, maybe pre-trade Splinter Gold, rather than shit like Darklord. Hope this helps. Franch is right too, fkn so good.
I posted an explanation of this a while ago, but can't find it now. But, roughly... bottle limits on Sole Comps are now 2 per person, so for the most part if you don't have a regular Portland trader you're going to have a hard time finding them. That said, they do sometimes sit around for a while because: inconvenient hours, inconvenient location, unannounced releases, said bottle limits, the expense of the bottles relative to most local releases, and the fact that many of them are available on-draft much cheaper than the bottle price.
Terrific beer, I drank my only one a few months ago - sorry I didn't get to share it with you Os! In retrospect this looks like a pretty one sided trade but I just hooked up with someone generous and easy going. I sent Bolt Cutter, a BCBS 4 pack, and a few Maine beers for Apricot 7, Block 15 Demon's Farm, Seizon Bretta, and...a bottle of Cherry Adam from the Wood. Now I feel a little guilty.
Seizoen Bretta is a shelf beer. At the right store, Demon's Farm is a shelf beer. CAftW is the least awesome of the HotD special releases. Apricot Seven is the gem though-- and BCBS goes a long way out here.. seems to be the obsession of our more enthusiastic PDX traders.
Yeah, I think we had a similar conversation in another thread. I'm referring to it as 'weird' just in comparison to what Os and I would experience in NYC/NJ/Philly/etc, where a brewery of Upright's stature would be overrun in the first 2 hours (announced release or not) and the 120-160 bottles would be gone before half the people even knew it happened.
a) Many fewer people in Portland b) Portland beer culture is much more like Belgian or German or British beer culture than like the rest of the US. Everyone drinks beer. Most people drink good beer. Very few people obsess about it. c) Given that Portland is awash in good beer, most people -- even the beer geeks -- find the idea of trading baffling. You really do have to be a little damaged to want to work that hard at getting non-local beer, when there's more good local beer than you can possibly keep up with. d) 50+ breweries in the city, constantly releasing new beer. If I bought every new release, I'd never be able to drink it all.
Thing is, you don't even have to work that hard. Last time I stopped by John's Marketplace, I saw a better selection of Russian River beers than I get at home-- and I live IN California.
I had one bottle of each batch, and oddly drank them both. Both were awesome and I wish I had more! Silly Portlanders.
