Avery Barrel Aged Releases and general Colorado malaise

This bothers you so much that you felt the need to post it in multiple forums? First world problems. Relax and enjoy a beer.

 

Crooked Stave isn't membership anymore and quite a few of their beers don't make it out of state. Batch 50 went on sale tonight with a 4 bottle limit, brewery only and 100 cases for sale. By the time I left I was pretty sure they might sell out tonight.

Colorado gets great distro for beers. We get beers that used to sell out within hours that just sit on shelves now.

I have no problem trading beers from here for what I want. Can I get everything? No but I can't complain with what I do get. I have several regular trading partners that send me a message and I send them the beer. I'm sure I can ask any one of them for the same in return.

Avery beers might be getting more distro based on the increase in production but that $12 beer here still costs $12-18 other places. sometimes it's still cheaper to trade with someone in CO then it is to buy the bottles in say NY.

 

I find this interesting, but not upsetting. Avery has been good trade bate in the past, but I'm not seeing that much lately. Casey, CS and Liquid Brain are still local go-to's but I'm actually happier having good beers readily available than making sure they are tradable.

 

If you're so concerned about obtaining trade bait, you may need to shop outside the city of Boulder. Shocking, I know.

 

We get so much good beer here now that I haven't traded in almost a year. We get more great beer than I can even drink without turning into a fat alcoholic with diabeetus, so I don't care one bit about the tradeability of our beer.

 

What's trade bait? I like Avery's beers. Why would I be mad that other people get them too?

First day on here. Sorry. LOL.

 

We still get very limited amounts of the barrel aged Avery stuff here in NJ (at $15-$18 a bottle) and as far as I know, we have not seen any of the sours. I will be in Denver at the end of the month and hope to take a ride to check out Avery's new facility. Does anyone know if there are still bottles of the sours available there or will I be able to find them on the shelves in Denver? I'd really love to try them.

 

Should be able to find them on the shelves.

 

I stopped trading years ago because I can get 99% of what I want in town or in Boulder/Ft. Collins. I'd much rather have it this way.

 

This pretty much sums it up for me. If you live in Colorado and have a car, you can easily obtain what I consider to be some of the best beer in the country, from multiple top tier breweries. While it can be cool to trade for something different, I just don't think you'll get anything better.

 

Yeah. For everything BUT super high quality PACKAGED IPA.

Not just really good but great stuff.

 

I need to take this advice and just chill. Full cellar, more beer trades en route, I think my trading days are numbered. Especially after 3 straight Avery Releases and the Batch 50 Release. Hard to pass a trade for some Trillium, but I will have to stop soon!

Still some Batch 50 as of 9:30 last night when I left....

 

I used to do a fair amount of trading, but just got sick of it. It doesn't mean that their aren't great beers out there we don't get. There are certainly plenty, especially heading through the rust belt. However I think people often trade based on name value while ignoring a lot of the insanely good beers we do get because they have no trade value. Beer trading is starting to remind me of comic books and baseball cards in the 90's. People are excited for the prospect of something being the next big thing more than actual enjoyment. There are literally hundreds of beers on the shelf in Grapevine or Lukas that I'm certain most of us haven't tried. We're probably sitting on the next Heady but people are too busy lusting after midwestern beers that will be cool today and garnering eye rolls next year. For every overvalued Chicago area beer we have 1/2 dozen (from all over the country) on our shelves people don't even acknowledge.

 

This post is silly.
I can't see a negative side to increased production of the "limited beers" at some of the CO front range breweries.
*) No more waiting in line at the breweries for a release when you know it's going to be around town for the next week or so.
*) Less demand on the trading forums leads to less people just looking for "trade bait" and more beer for us people who actually like to drink it.

So I'm sorry that you can no longer hoard beer in order to get more beer from out-of-state, but I like walking into a store and being able to buy a bottle of Tectun et Elix 4 weeks after the release and not worrying if I'm ever going to see this beer again.

 

Between Pliny, Sculpin (regular and Grapefruit), The Calling, Odell IPA, all of the FW IPAs, Space Dust, and probably half a dozen more I'm forgetting, I no longer lament the IPA selection we get here. I love hoppy beer so there are always other ones I'd like to have occasionally, but I don't think we are lacking at all compared to other areas

 

I for one am glad that CO isn't a Chicago-land, etc. I detest waiting 3+ hours in line for a single bottle of beer. Leisurely showing up the next day after a release and picking up the same bottle is what I prefer.

 

I hear ya, but so something I would trade for. Not crying at all, just saying.