Capones chicago

I had to buy bottles of the GI sisters to get BCBS variants at shops in the burbs. Had to buy FW at WLV to get their barrel aged stuff (just last week). This practice is not uncommon.

I've seen MANY places post beers online and they're gone in 10 minutes because of the ultra competitive beer hoarders in Chicago. Your best bet, regardless of beermenus/Facebook is to call the store and verify inventory before you make the trip

And see my post in the other thread about prices (compared capones to beer menus and other stores in the area and it's middle of the pack)

Just out of curiosity, what beer have they ever said they've had and not gotten in?

Disclaimer: I am a regular at capones. But I also frequent several places in the burbs as well as WLV and others

 

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its jumped off my facebook feed onto BA.......ahhhhhhhh. If it pops up in a text or in a work email I think I'm being invaded.

 

Not that I don't agree with the OP (I stopped shopping there awhile ago for these exact reasons)... but, someone must be shopping there for them to continually do so well. Hell, they were selling Big John for $15!!! That's a 50% markup over literally everyone else. Guess what, all of the Big Johns were sold. I don't blame them for taking advantage of people willing to throw their money away. I'm sure losing MY business doesn't hurt them when there's so many people willing to pay ransom for beers.

Also, most liquor stores in that area, including WLV, are regularly a few dollars higher than other areas in the city. Beer Temple is the one exception. Chris prices fairly and I applaud him for it.

Don't put so much weight on Beer Menus.com. Unless something has been added the day you look at it, never assume anyone has what's listed there. Follow Capones on Facebook if you want accurate updates.

 

Then don't spend money there, where's the problem?

 

WLV really made you buy another FW product? In my experience that has never once happened there.

 

Yep. I've never had it happen there before either. I think it's bc she had a lot of vintages of sucaba/parabola and it was at the FW event last week. There was still a huge turnout. It was a great event!

 

Perhaps he's not a regular.

 

I'm in WLV once a week. Wasn't just me. It was everyone

 

I think it's pretty funny how entitled people feel they are to things.

So you never shop at a store except to buy the special limited releases and you're surprised they'd like you to buy something else as well? Beer shops don't stay in business selling kbs for a day or a few sixers of zombie dust for the week. Become a known face with your local beer shop, spend money there on normal beer, and reap the benefits of being a regular when limited stuff hits.

It's not Freddy's job to cater to the Chicago craft beer vultures, he doesn't need more of those types of customers anyway.

And WLV made everyone who wanted to buy abraxas buy another perennial bottle as well.

 

I think for that setting that is completely justifiable since she is pouring free beer the whole night for attendees. Buying a vintage bottle from that list and a DBA or double jack/union jack is no big deal. All of Firestones regular offerings are awesome.

People like to bitch and feel entitled I get it. It's fun and trendy. Just gets old fast and these complaining threads have run there course.

 

Stop using rational thoughts and making sense. This is beer advocate where complaining and entitlement run rampant.

 

Ahhhh right I forget sometimes!! Thanks for the reminder

 

I see it this way, if Capones had to buy all those Founders beers that are sitting on the shelves to get that one case of KBS, why shouldnt we have to buy some of that beer to get that bottle of KBS

 

I went there once. They didn't have what they said they had on the phone, so I checked them off my list. No biggie. Just move on; they're not the only place for beer in this vast city.

 

In the first part of what you said, I agree. Every time I've heard of or experienced her making you buy a bottle to buy another, it was at a free beer tasting event. Usually these events involve opening up cases of beer for free, so it certainly feels more reasonable in that situation.

The rest is garbage. People like to throw the word "entitlement" around a lot lately. Not liking that you have to buy a beer you may not want, and did not make the trip to the store to buy, in order to buy 1 bottle of what you actually came for, is not entitlement. Its hard to think of another similar, acceptable practice.

Yes, the liquor stores thrive on their regular beer sales, but this recent boom in the desire for rare beer should not be what is keeping a liquor store afloat. If they could not survive without the rare beer then they have a bad practice already. It is therefor unjustified in my mind to make you buy a bottle of something you didnt go to that store for.

Figuring out how to deal with rarer, limited brews is something stores have to figure out. Lists, holding some back for repeat customers, lotterying them off are all reasonable solutions. Force pairing a desired bottle with something that isnt selling fast enough off your shelf isnt beer advocacy, its greed.

 

Playing the Regular Customer card is pretty much the definition of entitlement.

"I shop here for Anti-Hero, therefore I'm special and better than the guy next to me with $20 in his pocket for this limited release."

No. You're not.

If an employee chooses to remember you, and offers you something, that's different. But to expect it because you bought other crap there before = entitlement.

 

o for fuck's sake. yes, "entitlement" gets thrown around constantly on BA. it generally means "person espousing an opinion about beer i don't agree with" - this time, it's actually the case. the rule for store X is that to buy beer Y, you must also buy some other beer. if you don't like it, you don't get beer Y. play by the rules. by throwing a fit about that, you ARE acting like you are entitled to get beer Y without playing by the rules. this isn't something with a grey area or unintended problem (e.g. "don't line up before 10!" ends up with a pre-line-line or something dumb like that) - it's simple. the same as if store H charges $8 for beer Y, but store J charges $20 for it... you will either pay $20 to store J to buy it, or you don't buy it from store J. you don't have a right or entitlement to buy beer Y from store J. stores J and X do not care what you think is a "reasonable" or "acceptable" solution -- patronize their store, or don't. if their practices are truly abhorrent (imagine a $100 bottle of KBS, for example), they won't work. i'm betting that capone's and WLV will do just fine.

 

I have no problem with making someone purchase a bottle of something else to get a limited release. My problem with Capones is that he used to update beermenus several times a day and the list was inaccurate and the prices were lower than they were in the store. This to me is false advertising. I also thinks it says a lot about the character of the owner. It has been mentioned that he doesn't do this anymore, but it still keeps me from ever shopping there.