Hi friends, Putting out a feeler/inquiry on behalf of a friend of mine who manages a local bar. Dude is a longtime rater and trader, just not a member of this particular site (I only bring that up to say that he's trustworthy). Here's the question: what do you imagine the interest level might be on handbottles (counter-pressure filled, etc.) from a just-tapped keg of 2011 Black Note? Cheers!
I would not even think of trading for such a bottle unless it came from someone I knew personallly, or _maybe_ someone I'd traded with many times in the past. I like to know exactly what I'm trading for, and this situation is just a little too dicey for my tastes. Just my opinion, man. There might be plenty of folks who'd jump at the chance. Edit: After thinking it through, I take it back. I can't think of a single beer I'd want as a hand-bottle. I wouldn't make this trade even if I knew the person offering it to me.
Maybe I'm missing the point, but would there be any difference if it were a growler? I once got a growler of Black Note, it was a few days old but refrigerated. Tasted better than the 12oz bottles I've had recently, smoother, probably due to being slightly oxidized but was tasting great.
Usually growlers are filled by actual breweries or bars. When is the last time you saw either one of those entities do a hand bottle of X beer in a swingtop Grolsch bottle?
would take a hand bottled pliny the younger, that is about it, perhaps moes bender, but only so I could enjoy it in my underwear on my couch...
I fail to see how a swing top bottle is any different then a 1L or 2L swing top growler. A bar is just a place that received the keg, it does not describe the manor which they store the beer and fill the growlers. I think it would trade like any random growler fill, horrible gamble.
People will trade for 'properly done' hand bottles, but it's typically for beers that are otherwise nearly impossible to get (Zwanze, PtY, etc), not beers that have been commercially bottled by the brewery more than once. Maybe he'd have better luck filling a 750mL or 1L swingtop growler, I'm sure someone would be interested in that...
I wonder what the bar owner thinks of this. Unless your buddy bought the keg from him at its per-glass price, I have to imagine he wouldn't like the thought of missing out on those profits. Or hell, the hype that tapping a keg like that would bring to the bar.
It was tapped at Milltown in Carrboro just over a week ago. The friend I mentioned in the OP, who manages the bar, is the fella who ordered and tapped the keg for his bar. Thanks for the feedback/opinions everyone. Doesn't look like much interest in this, but I appreciate the responses. Cheers!
