BCBS in AZ

Sssh, more coffee and donuts for the rest of us...

 

I am planning on being at GCM on Friday morning, and then sliding up to Tops after that. Not interested at all in Rare. Hope to see some of you friendly Arizona folks down there, I'll be the troll from Colorado; probably wearing a beer shirt. Feel free to PM me if you want to say hi.

 

GCM posted a picture on FB and they have a ton of it so even enough for the trolls it looks like.

 

Got mine today at Total Wine Emerald Center. 4 bottle limit on the Reg and 1 bottle limit on the Barley Wine. No other variants there.

 

Any reports on how it's going at Tops or GCM? Was thinking about trying them closer to 11 if it's not pure insanity.

 

Tops had reg/barleywine when we left around 1030-11?

 

Just hit TW in good year, looked like about half a case left of Stout and Barleywine.

 

What was Tops charging?

 

Don't quote but something like $10 reg, $12 barley/coffee, $22 regal, $60 rare

 

GCM was good. We got there around 545 AM and left about 845. Didn't get any rare, did get some coffee. Everyone I talked to was pretty friendly. I really appreciated the free donuts and coffee. I was also very happy to get the free glassware, which was very generous of them. I also liked that they did not scalp on the price. The only thing I did not like was that it took a long time to get our beer. I swung by total wine in Scottsdale on the way home and they still had some stout around 915. AZ people are chill.

 

I got to Tops at 920 and left around 1015 with a Regular and a Coffee. There was about 1 case of Coffee left at that time.

 

Out of town for the release did manage to grab 3 bottles of regular in a small town of 2000 up in the Sierra Nevadas which was a pleasant surprise. No variants avaliable as he only got 1 case of bcbs. On a positive note I found FW XIX and helldorado sitting on the shelve plus picked up my box of Black Tuesdays to bring home.

Not too worried about bcbs and bcbbw I was able to pick up enough 2014 during all the random summer releases at places like cellars and Magnums to hold me over until the same thing happens this year.