Bourbon County in Ohio

Hey, man I don't complain about beer prices. I complain about people who do. And what makes you think I waited? Its some guy's FB post about a beer that came out this morning.

 

Anyone have any stories about landing their allotments yesterday? Decided to skip Heinens and go to Red Wine and Brew in Mentor. Got there at 8:30. One guy standing out front. All of the sudden the place was slammed with people lined up. Got BCBS, Coffee, Northwoods, and Barleywine. Also landed 1 bottle BCBS at Heinens. I was happy. It was fun to be out hunting with everyone!

 

So was Cleveland the only place in Ohio to get variants besides coffee?

If so I guess InBev loves Cleveland and Cleveland loves InBev

 

Going in, told myself I wouldn't go out of my way to hunt this down. Was visiting family in Lakewood, working out at the Y Friday morning, and decided to stop by Simones and Caps n Corks after (~11:30am, within minutes from the Y). Picked up Regular, Barleywine, and Northwoods. Coffee had just sold out but oh well, can't complain.

 

BCBW & Northwoods still on tap at Tremont Tap House for those that struck out but want to try them.

 

There were bottles at the Athens Kroger yesterday if anyone's in the area

$10 a pop (I bought 2 of them). I'm not entirely sure how many more they have, but the lady that works the beer section told me that not a lot of people knew they had it

 

Sorry to bring back such an old thread but this is how I found Brewster's in Twinsburg was doing a Bourbon County event last year.

When I called last year day of the workers there don't know they were hosting it and this year it's the same. Anyone have confirmation if they are having tappings again?

 

I don’t believe so. The east side grey Wednesday official event will be at City Tap in Pinecrest this year.

 

Anybody hear anything going on in Columbus?

 

In case anyone doesn't already know the prices for this year...


...this is in Cincinnati.

 

Geez. So adding coffee beans to the barley wine makes it that much more expensive than the regular last year? And using wheat instead of regular malt makes the wheat wine that much more expensive than the regular barleywine last year? Crazy.

 

To piggyback on my own comment, I went back and looked and last year barley wine and coffee were both 12.09. So now they are almost double this year?

 

I predict that many of these bottles will still be on the shelves for weeks if not months after Black Friday.

 

For sure the wheatwine and coffee barleywine at those prices.

 

I don't think the variants will sit, but we'll see. I'll personally pass at those prices, hope to get a few regular. I think there were a few drops of regular last year after Black Friday.

Not sure why the stores wait till Friday now that I mention it, what's the history there? Was it always a Friday thing and they try to carry that forward with wider distribution? Most places will have it early in the week, why do they have to hold it?

 

Stores wait until Friday because the AB-InBev rep tells them too. They like Black Friday to be a BCBS "event". People at a few stores
here in Cincinnati told me that their BCBS delivery isn't even happening until Friday this year because the distributor is super uptight about them not selling it early. They don't even know what time they will have bottles for sale on Friday because of this.

Not all stores care though... I've bought it early in KY multiple times over the past few years.

 

They sold bottles of Reserve to go before they were supposed to and they were pretty public about it, believe they got the banhammer from GI bc of that. Sounds like Heinens and Tremont are the main games atm.

 

So - I’m back in Ohio after being gone a while. Where in the Mason/cincinnati area can these be had? I think I’ve only seen 1 place with a lot of internet searching. But probably missing a few.

 

I don’t believe Brewster’s got any bottles last year, they are just a restaurant aren’t they? At least when I went last year, it appeared to be just a restaurant and they made no mentions of bottles. I didn’t even think Ohio got bottles of Reserve last year.

 

Well don't believe it, but that's what happened.

That keg of Reserve also wasn't supposed to be theirs. I know where it was supposed to be.