Bourbon County 2018

I knew you were "interesting", but I didn't know you were a masochist.

 

It's good for beer alerts. Place beer you want and notify when it's available. I've gotten some good beer that way. That's what I use it mostly for.

 

Also, prop day lottery is available.

https://www.gooseisland.com/PropDay

 

Okay, fair, that's definitely another thing it's useful for (I have alerts setup as well).

 

Few Prop Day Instagram giveaways, too. @chicagobeer and @a.girl.rates.beer.

 

Does Goose regularly sell used barrels anymore?

 

No, after pulling the BCBS they use the leftovers to bend the customers over at Prop Day....

 

Binny's LP allotment info is up:

https://www.binnys.com/blog/post/Black-friday-2018/

Binny’s LP Full allocation – Price TBD

(all bottles 16.9 oz)

2 Bourbon County Brand Stout

2 Bourbon County Brand Wheatwine

2 Bourbon County Brand Bramble Rye Stout

2 Proprietor's Bourbon County Brand Stout

1 Reserve Bourbon County Brand Stout

1 Bourbon County Brand Vanilla Stout

1 Bourbon County Brand Midnight Orange Stout

1 Bourbon County Brand Coffee Barleywine


We’ve also been able to secure enough vintage bottles to guarantee one vintage bottle to everyone buying an allocation. That means your choice (from the remaining – there’s a limited supply of each) of these great bottles from the archive. Prices will vary:


2014 Bourbon County Brand Stout Vanilla Rye

2015 Rare Bourbon County Brand Stout

2016 Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout

2016 Proprietor’s Bourbon County Brand Stout

2017 Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout

2017 Bourbon County Brand Northwoods Stout

 

4 reg and one of each variant at all the other stores. Only six bottles of reserve per location.

 

Wow, I asked for it and I got it.

 

I like that and the fact that they are doing tickets and wristbands (1000 allocations). I'll probably head to Binny's LP this year.

 

Surprised they published the release details so early this year. Kudos to them for doing so. Some significant changes for LP this year. They seem positive on first look imo. Only thing regarding the wrist bands is that once you get one you should have to remain in the line for the duration (save bathroom breaks of course). Invariably there are people who leave the line for extended periods of time (naps in their car, etc). If one cannot tolerate being in line, don't get in line. It says 'Please stay in line" but hopefully it's enforced.

 

The issue last year with the wristbands is after they finished handing them out they didn't notify the 700+ people in line beyond that point that the wristbands were gone and therefore no allotment guaranteed. It wasn't until hours after they were handed out that people in the 1500+ area realized (by talking totpeople in line not Binnys eomployees) and many just decided to chance it at that point since it had been over 4 hours of waiting already.

 

Just to clarify @kodt is referring to the tickets they handed out last year starting about 7:30-8:00am Friday morning. They did not hand out wristbands. It sounds to me like there will be a person at the end of line handing out wristbands Thursday and early Friday morning to prevent line cutting. Friday morning you will get your ticket, like last year, assuming you have a wristband.

 

NO TENTS * NO CAMPING * NO OPEN FIRES * NO CUTTING IN LINE
NO OPEN CONTAINERS * NO LITTERING

This seems optimistic.

 

What does “no camping” actually even mean? No chairs? No propane heaters?

 

Last year there were people in tents (of all sizes), pop up ice fishing shanty looking things, hammocks strung up, having open fires, etc, etc. Many of which were drunk and just left shit everywhere come dawn. I'm not a conservative guy when it comes to stuff like this, but what I saw last year was disrespectful and just fucking gross. I hope they enforce the hell out of this.

 

I was 998/1000 last year, showed up at 4:45am. I was 720 something the year before and arrived at 7:20 for some context.

The story goes that they lost/misplaced the official looking tickets and ended up handing out regular raffle tix. I can confirm nothing was told to the people behind me that tickets were done and an allotment was not guaranteed. Poor customer service imho. The guy handing out tix was more interested in scoring with the chick with him. People were walking by counting the line. The first pass, based on the last person with a ticket to me, I was 750. By the time I got my ticket I was 998. Lots of cutting.

I think the real issue was the way the line wrapped. The idiots that showed up 3 days early wrapped the line counter clockwise. And once the line lapped itself no one knew what to do. So when the line moved there was a huge gap and allowed people to cut. So if you’re going to show up 3 days early please wrap the line clockwise down Marcey in to the the Best Buy parking lot.

I may go to LP depending on the weather. Not sure if 9+ hours is worth it.

 

I was with you in that cluster line last year. With the Binny's rules posted, if they follow through a lot of the issues which happened last year will be eliminated. The key will be with the enforcement of the no tents/fires/cutting. It wasn't properly staff pre-Friday morning through Friday morning. They couldn't even get the tickets correct.

I swore of Binny's last year, but with the smaller allotments elsewhere, weather will determine whether I take the leap or be satisfied with hitting pouring events throughout the city. One thing is for certain, without a wristband and ticket, I'll be among the first in the brewpub for a marathon BCS session.

Cheers and good luck on getting your allotment!

 

Yeah for sure I just figured the “no tents” and no open fires etc would have covered that part. So I’m curious what they mean by no camping. Guessing just anything out of the ordinary but chairs and space heaters would be alright