Bourbon County 2018

Had a pour over the weekend. Seemed the same to me.

 

Any clue of Fountainhead will have vintage bottles on for sale that evening like they did last year? Will the other two bars have any chance of that?

 

I didn't like Prop '16 when it was released. Was too pepper and smoke flavored to me. Never got that chocolate fudge people were talking about. But I had it maybe 2-3 weeks ago at GI Clybourne on draft, and I liked it a good bit more (although still not as much as Prop 17). The pepper and smokiness mellowed a good amount and the 'chocolate fudge' flavor people initially mentioned became noticeable.

 

Prop 13 > Prop 14 > Prop 17 > Prop 16 > Prop 15

Fully expect 18 to be between 14 and 17 or 17 and 16

 

So has LP binnys release the full allotment price yet? If I missed it in an earlier post go ahead and slap me. But then tell me anyways

 

I’m always surprised at the lack of love for 15 Prop (pre-infection). Perhaps if it hadn’t been infected and people got to try it over a longer period, it would’ve gotten more appreciation.

 

They're still recovering from the invasion of VW flippers....

 

#StoneColdJeggin

Somewhere I have a 5-page Word document with his justification of his actions....

 

It was a bullet pointed dissertation if I remember correctly

 

Didn't most people find it too sweet? Your friendly neighborhood cavity-chaser liked it a lot, but I remember it getting a lot of hate for being too "diabeetus"-inducing.

 

Yeah. Cost someone their job, and put your neckbeard shitbaggery on full display for everyone to see... definitely disturbing.

 

I thought it was garbage.

But I love 2016 Prop so what do I know?

 

I thought '16 was better, but I liked both. None of them have blown me away like '14 and especially '13, though.

 

Can you dig it up Steve? Would love to read that.

 

Yeah, I think people did think that. I tend to like the sweet stuff, so that’s probably why I liked it. I find it interesting as well that Prop 15 never gets tapped by GI (at least not that I’ve seen). I thought the infection was only to the bottled stuff, so kegs should be around...unless they found out the kegged stuff was infected as well.

 

I had it there in late 2016, a week or two before 2016 Black Friday. Only time I ever had it. They probably just didn't bottle it.

I said I liked it better than regular at the time, but my palate was a wee lad at that point in time.

 

#Facts

Got to try 18 yest and would put it between 17 and 16. It tasted like dark chocolate or a baker's chocolate to me. Not my favorite but still solid.

 

2015 was flat coke....

 

Novel incoming:


Jeff Gross
6 hrs · Chicago, IL · Edited
Since everyone feels the need to spread rumors re: BCBS from folks who heard it from a person who knows someone else, I think its important to clear the air about what happened at the six corner Walgreens on black friday. I know a lot of you enjoy the soap opera and high school gossip aspect of beer more than drinking the bottles themselves, so it is with a heavy heart that I muster report there is no scandal (at least not as far as I am aware). Let’s clarify a few facts:

1) What happened was I was waiting in line at Lincoln Park Binnys with 50-100 other people, when, around 1 am in the morning, a person in front of me in line, who I had never met before, received a text from his friend telling him that the six corners Walgreens was selling BCBS. Like any one of you would have done upon hearing this, I drove to that store. When I arrived, BCBS variants were already being sold by the case to multiple customers, and I too purchased a case of each of the variants. I neither purchased one of the first, nor the last, case of any flavor of BCBS that night.

2) Assuming there was, in fact, a person arguing with the staff in order to get them to sell BCBS at midnight rather than noon, it was not me and I cannot tell you who it is because I do not know -- I was not there when this allegedly occurred. If you want to know who that person was, I suggest asking Jeb Singer, who I am told, ironically enough, helped to spread the rumors of my involvement in the Walgreens sale. It was Jeb’s friend, or at least a friend of his friend, that sent out the text about how Walgreens was selling BCBS.

3) Do not pretend for a moment that most, if not all, of you would have turned down the chance to buy a case of BCBS variants if offered the chance. There is not a person here who would have demanded the store cancel all of the transactions and put the beer back into the stock room to be sold 11 hours later. When I arrived at 1 AM, the Walgreens was already selling everything to customers by the case. All that I had to do was point to what another customer was buying when I walked in and ask “can I have that too please?” I wish the details were juicier than that, but the truth of the matter is never as interesting as innuendo and gossip.

4) People have bought limited beer by the case before. People will buy limited beer by the case again. Other people bought limited beer by the case from that store that day, not to say the least of other stores this past week. Costco and other stores, even stores with limited stock, were selling regular BCBS and BCBS barley wine by the case on black friday and throughout this week, yet no one complains about that. Why? Because at the heart of it, most people that are upset about this are upset because someone got more bottles of something that they wanted than them. As one person who messaged me upset about this incident put it so eloquently when asked about this issue: “no one cares about regular. I’ve got 3 cases of regular.”

5) There is nothing immoral or wrongful or illegal or otherwise about buying a case of a product that is being sold by the case. By the very token of logic forming the basis of why people are upset about the Walgreens incident, they should be focusing their butthurt on the people that are flagrantly bragging about leaving Costcos and Jewel Oscos with cases of regular bourbon county for $25 per case because the clerk scanned the bar codes/cases incorrectly. That is no different than a clerk giving you change for a $20 even though you handed her a $10 bill, and walking out of the store with a big smile on your face. There is not a single person buying BCBS by the case that did not know what the price should have been.

6) All week, people have been truck chasing, bribing delivery drivers, bribing store owners, and buying out stores’ whole allocations single handedly across the country, let alone Chicago (but it’s only this “mysterious” Walgreens story that people are talking about). Me getting a couple of bottles that were already for sale in a sea of tens of thousands of bottles from a single store amongst hundreds of thousands of stores did not impact the release of bourbon county across the country or the city of Chicago. Had I not bought the bottles, I assure you that someone else would have, and not too much later than when I arrived, as 5 or more people quickly filled in behind me seeking bourbon county (they too purchased by the case). My actions that night had a trivial impact upon the BCBS release – even the release at that specific store.

7) The only person who really has a right to be upset over the Walgreens matter is the person who was in front of me in line at Lincoln Park Binnys, who I left there without offering a ride to go to the store with me. Admittedly, that was a dick move on my part, and frankly I should have brought him with me to Walgreens so that he could have gotten a case of the BCBS variants for himself too. To make amends for this, I ultimately gave this person 1/3 of the bottles that I bought at Walgreens. Why 1/3? Because my friend who camped out at Vav’s store overnight and went to Walgreens with me also bought BCBS variants by the case. We divvied up the bottles purchased at Walgreens 3-ways.

8) If given the opportunity to have a do-over on what happened Friday morning, the only thing that I would change about what went down is that I would have brought the person waiting in line in front of me with me to Walgreens.

9) People need to get over their entitlement and jealously issues, and their almost fanatical religious need to assert their personal moral code on others. I am sincerely sorry that Anheuser Busch did not release a product in a way that ensured you got more bottles. Keep pretending you would not have done the same thing that I did if given the chance; I’m sure it helps you sleep at night. This has only blown up because there is a very vocal minority of people who do not care for me that talk louder than others, and sadly have nothing better to do with their free time than talk about me.

Sincerely yours,

Everyone’s favorite villain.

PS, this is my exclusive, definitive statement about this matter. I have nothing more to say about it, and I am not going to reply to this thread because (1) this is a trivial, non-issue that had no impact on the bourbon county release in Chicago or across the country or even at that specific Walgreens, and (2) I’m sure the comments on this thread will drag out into eternity. The only reason I am addressing this at all is that a lot of people are asking what happened, and I am not ashamed to share the story because nothing scandalous or wrongful occurred. A store was selling bottles, and I bought bottles. Someone better call the Washington Post.

PPS, “Props” on the photoshop pics, even I laughed at those.

TLDR: Fucking JEG.