BA Viet Speedway Trade Value

Based on what regular BA Speedway Stout trades for (shelf turd due to it being so damn expensive) ... I would guess it's not even close to that level...

 

I know it's not a popular concept at this point in the election cycle, but I think your answer lies somewhere in the middle of these two opinions.

 

Yup, it's somewhere in the middle.... It will certainly pull better beers than shelf turds... I was just commenting that BASS sits on shelves in Washington and Minnesota because they're asking $35-40 for a bottle and most people are not willing to pay for it...

But yes, I'm sure you'll be able to get some solid beers in trade for it... as so often is the answer BA Viet Speedway will probably trade close to $4$ with other comparable, limited brewery release beers...

see this thread for more info on BASS...
http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/ba-speedway-value.204247/

 

(Sorry for the slight edit there, KB).

Unless you see a large number of ISO posted in advance of or right after the release announcement, this statement in the past, now, tomorrow, and forever and ever and ever and ever will always hold true.

Not directed at you, specifically, OP, but I really wish people would study and understand that statement before posting this question whenever a (new) beer is being re/released. Looking at ISO in the trade forum and what people offer up, before the release and after the release, and get the beers in your hands, THEN figure out what you want to trade it for, starting at $4$ unless you can really justify higher value, rather than planning to trade a beer that you don't yet have based on the best guesses of a few people on the forum.

 

Not directly on point, but AleSmith is also one of those breweries that do their barrel-aged beers so well that if I acquire, that's the end of the road for that bottle. Not many beers better than BA Speedway, and I'm sure this variant will be as good if not better.

 

You can also gauge the public interest in a beer this way...in other words, are there more people trading it off trying to get other beers or are there more posts ISO of it. I would honestly wait until someone else posts an ISO for it and then decide if you think that's worth pursuing. Let the people ISO of it set the initial market for it and if what they're offering isn't good enough for someone to take it, they'll offer something else or more quantity for it.

 

There are hundreds, even thousands of beers that are comparable ... This is a really hard question to answer... if you listed a few beers you were interested in, that would help

 

i would say no on coffee abraxas just because the price point is probably the same but the bottle count and limits per person will be much lower. but i am in the same boat as some of the others, i'll probably be getting 4 BA viet speedways, and they are going no where but my belly

 

I'm sure it would pull Sump, but I would doubt it'd pull the other ones... but, hey, I've been wrong before! Good luck!

 

Really, honestly didn't want you to feel sorry you asked. It's seems the question keeps popping up more often recently, sometimes because people worry about asking too much or too little for the beer.

What is comparable to a new limited beer can only be determined after it's released, people have tried it, and a good number of trades have been made. There are pre-release hypes, like the case of DB Huna, but the ISO will show this and I don't see hypes as a good measure of what is comparable. Trade history is what matters.

To me, the better question to ask is "WHY should the beer be traded for more than what you paid for?" compared to the beers you want to get (taken into consideration that no one asked you to specifically go out of your way up hill both ways and stand in line for 10 hours to get the beer). There are walez for walez and shelf for shelf, correspondingly similarly $4$. Anything in between, that is difficult for you and your trade partner to get locally so you 2 have to trade, is basically $4$. This "in between" is 90-95% of the beers being traded so there shouldn't be significant going over $ value. Only when a beer in 1 category is being traded one in another that's when $ value may not be as significant.

 

I would try for the coffee abraxas 1:1...worst case scenario you get crickets and it doesn't happen anyway. You never know when the right BA who isn't holding onto it for the 'highest' offer to get posted. Almost anything can get done once if seen by the right set of eyes, but you'll never know until you try. Having had sump, I wouldn't recommend going for that one. The BA viet will almost certainly be better. Can't speak to BA sump though.