CBS

I haven't had it personally but the story from others is that its fallen off quite a bit. Which is to be expected considering the ingredients. I would imagine there are still bottles to be had but most will want quite a bit for it. I wouldn't trade a whole lot for one personally. I'd love to try it but i'm not about to give up some great beers for one.

EDIT: Also, I frequent the trade boards daily and have not seen a lot of demand for them lately. It's not too often people are looking for them anymore. So maybe that will help.

 

love your avatar OP!

(sorry I have nothing to add on current value of CBS)

 

100% agree. I would seek out a Blushing Monk if you haven't tried it. It's held up so nicely.

 

The last two bottles I tried were basically black licorice. I hate black licorice flavor so I literally wouldn't trade anything for one now. CBS was one of my favorite beers fresh. I think a lot of the talk of beers falling off is BS, but in this case it has fallen off a cliff IMO.

 

I heard rumors (yes I know...) that they'll be re-releasing cbs this fall but seems like they've been talking about that for a while. Might hold off until they do.

 

Well they have another backstage to release this year I thought....who knows?

 

Had one 5 months ago. I enjoyed it. Never tried fresh, but I'd drink it again. I think I traded prop 1:1 for it. Happy with it.

 

Been a little while since I had CBS but it was still decent then. I think the main issue is storage conditions as a lot of these bottles haven't been properly stored and have been traded across the country a few times by now

 

I have 2 bottles left that I bought right when they were released. Properly stored (steady temp of around 65, in my basement, inside a box w/no holes, no windows in basement). Last bottle I had in Dec 2013 still drank pretty great, but there was some falling off from when I had in Oct 2012 and fresh in 2011. But that's to be expected. The bottle I had last Dec hadn't fallen off a cliff.

 

I recently traded a Coffee Abraxas + Life is Like for a CBS and a framed CBS poster. Opened it up on Saturday and it was pretty oxidized. Girlfriend still enjoyed it (It was one of her Birthday presents) which is all that matters.

 

I have 2 bottles left, that I have had refrigerated since original purchase. Send me a BM.

 

If you're my sender...

 

@mocktm, take Dino up on this. Super, solid porch crusher right here. Plus, I'd like to try CBS again

 

had one last week. not too good. flat chocolate milk. almost like a crappy ST Chokolat

 

Part of me still kinda wants to try this. But from a personal white whale stand point. I already know that if I actually drank a bottle of this I would contemplate if anything I desire will ever reach the hype in my head. Here's to hoping that Founders decides to stop fucking around with these mediocre backstage series beers and release CBS again.

 

I would think you could land 2 CBS with those bottles

 

Probably but the poster is really sweet and I needed to lock down the beer to get it in time for birthday celebrations.