Bourbon County 2015 Speculation

But we can still speculate on price and allocation limits!

 

Get that Regal in mah bellah!!!!

 

I'll take anything

 

Last year was peak excitement for me. Vanilla Rye was a *huge* want for me and even though I didn't expect to get my hands on it, Prop with coconut and cassia bark sounded freaking amazing.

This year, said excitement is tempered a bit. The Rye variant sounds like a complete wild card (candided cherries, sour cherries and salt? okay) and I'm not sure what to think about maple + chiles. Of course Rare will be on my list, but I have no idea what to expect for distribution in Michigan. From what I can tell, variants have been mostly nonexistent in the past.

 

Read that there will be a label on the back of the bottle as well, for those of you concerned about counterfeits becoming an issue

 

All these variants begin to feel like someone emptying what's remaining in his fridge in a blender. Sea salt, peppers, pecans... It's getting quite funny at this point. Can't wait for the guava/cheddar/turnip/fudge variant aged in egg-shaped cedar barrels soaked in peach schnapps, available in 2022....

 

I think a smoky pepper would have been awesome--like maybe a chipotle. But I don't think that guajillo chiles are very smoky.

 

Ill give you that Rye does sound a bit absurd but prop is completely within reason. Pecans, maple, chillies are not even close to being outside the realm of what other breweries make. Maple has been done, nuts have been done, and chillies have certainly been done. I'd love to try the GI version.

And obviously the exciting part of these threads is finding out what the variants will be. That said, Im always just as excited to get my hands on some regular. What a great beer. I actually don't really mind getting a few more ounces out of a bottle either.

 

Don't mind variants going to the 500ml bottles, but couldn't they have at least left regular in 12oz 4 packs?

 

I would be interested to see the total barrels from last year to this year. I hate math, so I'm not gonna do it, but the new format gets me thinking about allocations

If a store previously allotted a 4-pk of each of the reg, coffee, and BW, and a bomber of each variant, What will the new allocations look like?

I would suspect a 16.9 of Prop, Rye, and Rare, but what about the former 12 oz? 2 of each? 3 of the regular?

 

Today begins the journey to the CENTER OF THE EARTH!

 

well, looks like i might need to book a trip to chicago for black friday cause im already getting anxiety thinking about trying to tell all variants here in cali.

 

I'm already in line outside of totalwine. They better haz the rarez!

 

There weren't.

Rare had just over 11,000 bottles the first time around and sat around for months after the initial wave. I don't see that happening this year.