Hello fellow beer lovers/snobs - We are still stunned with our storage unit/beer cellar being pilfered between 24 May – 8 June 2023. They took 327 bottles of beer, hitting us hard on the cellaring of AleSmith, River North, Drake’s Brewing, Founders, North Coast Brewing, Fremont, our Firestone Walker Brewers Collective releases, releases from The Bruery, while cleaning us out of our Goose Island Bourbon County and variants. They also pilfered our - magnums of Anchor Brewing “Our Christmas Ale” from 2015 and 2016, - the magnums of Stone Brewing Berlin called “Groundbreaking Collaborations 07 - Züper Magik w00tstout” - our bottle of XYAUYÙ KENTUCKY - RISERVA 2017 by BIRRIFICIO AGRICOLO BALADIN - Multiple Anchorage Brewing releases: Ten Years, No Sleep, Furthermore, Blessed (2021), & A Deal With Evil - Our Moksa “Final Form” barleywine box set - Three Brasserie Cantillon: Vigneronne (2020), Cuvée Saint-Gilloise (Champions) (2019), & a Brabantiæ (2018) - The Collective Arts Brewing “2020 Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Porter” - Great Basin Brewing Company - m427 Scytale Pica Pica - Three of a 4 pack Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Utopias Barrel-Aged World Wide Stout (2021) - Some of the unique & limited releases from the Bruery include -- Multiple bottles of The Bruery Black Tuesday Private Barrel “Hacker Beer Snobs Private Reserve” extremely limited release and unique labels. -- A box of the The Bruery Black Tuesday flavor variants: Blueberry Pancake, Pistachio, Spicy Island, and Samoa -- So Radler: Lemon (2022) -- Pie Happy (2020) -- Gray Monday - Double Barrel Aged (2020) -- You Want A Piece of Me? -- Sweet Magnolias -- Sucré (Rye Whiskey) -- Still Vindictive (2020) -- Bois (Brandy Barrel Aged) (2013) -- Bois (Bourbon Barrel Aged) (2013) -- Black Tuesday (2021) -- Black Tuesday (2019) -- Black Tuesday (2-Year Red Wine Barrel Aged) (2020) -- Black Tuesday - American Oak Barrel-Aged (2022) -- Barley Nouveau - Some of the unique & limited releases from Firestone-Walker include -- Brewmasters Collective 2021 Parabola box -- Brewmasters Collective Feral One box -- Anniversary ales from XX through XXVI -- Coconut Rye Parabola (2018) -- Bramblin' On My Mind -- Beerjolais -- Amburana Parabola (2021) - They took a couple of bottles of FiftyFifty “Chocolate Cherries on Wood” - They took a release vertical of FiftyFifty Brewing Co. Eclipse from 2016, 2017, 2018, & 2019 (including the 2017, 2018, & 2019 limited release party bottles) From De Struise Brouwers they stole -- Pannepot Reserva (2012) -- Pannepot Grand Reserva (2011) -- Pannepot - Old Fisherman's Ale (2016) - A Fuller’s Vintage Ale (2004) - They took our last Santa Clara Valley Brewing bottles of Rye Barrel Aged Loma Prieta Imperial Stout, Bourbon Barrel Aged Loma Prieta Imperial Stout, & 2017 Rye Barrel Aged Loma Prieta Imperial Stout And many others…. The full list of items taken: https://hastebin.com/share/nolasewico.rust If you hear anything – see someone at a bottle share who you know was not a member of that beer club, bragging they scored something rare, or see something being offered for sale or trade that is too good to be true – please check the list and let me know. This disabled veteran would like to get his beer back. Thank you for reading.
This is so fucked and unfortunately very common in storage units. With this and the earthquake incident with another BA i am now keeping my beers under -80 or so
More so as of late, at least locally. Many factors as to why these thefts are happening, though a conversation regarding why would be out of scope for BA. Dang, sorry to hear about Hoppedelic and his earthquake incident. We will be doing the same reagrding reducing the size of the cellar to nonexistent (sadly). The current household does not have a place for a wine/beer cellar (yet), and there are other improvement projects that take priority.
Very sorry to hear this, and hope you can recover some if not all. Based on the phrasing, did they take everything from the storage unit or were they selective (left some beer besides what’s listed)? I’m assuming they grabbed everything and you listed specifics like you did to potentially identify some of the lowest bottle count items, but it made me question if somebody took the time to pick through it over that timeframe, which would be extra bizarre. I assume the storage facility security footage was no help.
They did not take everything, in fact. This is good & bad, as they left some mind blowing good ones but took common BCBS, but a significant portion of Firestone Walker Brewers intent releases - but left the box that had the Utopias it it. Left the Lost Abbey Sinners barrel aged & Duck Duck gose... it is just weird. They did take some time digging through it all, I could tell due to the boxes being moved around and not in the order I had them in but I suspect they did not know what they were taking. I am still waiting for the local LEOs to take the next steps in the investigation. :/ Supposedly they pulled the footage, but I have not seen it and they are working on other things. At least they had footage at the entrance of the facility, but not down the hallways. I should do an update post, detailing what support I have received from each of the breweries involved. Getting the insurance claim done was a challenge - and a story to be told.
