I'm going to be staying in nw ga (Dallas/Acworth area), and it looks like regal rye, coffee, and barleywine will be under the cap this year. Anyone know if the area will get any?
My understanding is that regular, coffee and barleywine are the ones making it to GA. At least going by the events that have been advertised.
I highly doubt we even see coffee.. Barleywine maybe. Regular- sure. Expect one bottle maybe two bottle limits everywhere.
Couple years ago, I bought a bottle (not going to name the brewery--but they are forever in my sickest brewery list) had a sticker on top of the actual abv. Heavier abv than limit making into a state with stupid laws not voted on by the people. I know this could seriously ruin a brewery but these damn politicians skirt the law and get paid off everyday. It was cool to see a brewery play dirty and was pretty awesome seeing this and mad respect to those brewers!
I hope you guys are right abut the abv. It says 14.2 on the goose island website, but maybe there are different strengths like last year.
We've received several beers in GA over the ABV cap, De Molen Bommen & Granaten to name one. Sometimes label approval gets pushed through if the label is similar to another one, as De Molen labels all look the same for the most part. Mikkeller Black made it here too even at 17.5%. Since the 2015 line of BCBS bottles are completely new in every way, there will be more scrutiny I'm sure.
It's difficult, I'll admit, but not impossible. It's like the people who all cry when they miss KBS bottles, but how many kegs land in Atlanta? Virtually every place in the scene gets a keg, and they tap them in enough of a spread that you can land it easily on draft numerous times. I think the people who bitch about missing it don't care to actually drink it, they just want bottles for trade bait. And for those people, fuck them. A beer release shouldn't be a 'what can I get rare from another State", it should be people buying a beer in limited quantities, enough to enjoy and enough for others to as well. If you're mad you missed a beer because you had lined up a whale to trade it for, you're not the person we want in the beer community.
Ben at five points on Atlanta highway wrote down my name and number, then said he would call me when it arrives. I hope he wasn't bullshitting me. He also told me he was expecting to get the reg, coffee, and barleywine. A couple employees at five points on Lumpkin st. told me they don't have a waiting list there. You just have to be there at the right time. Don't know anything about any of the other shops in the area, so if anyone else knows something, please share! I just moved here from columbus ohio less than a month ago, so this will be my first time I've had a chance to buy some bourbon county.
