Chicago Bottle Share

BA is my at-work time-waster, FB is my on the toilet time-waster.

 

I'm also in Vernon Hills if you ever want to have a more local share.

 

Depends on how you want to do it.

If you're passing the bottle around and everyone takes a pour, yeah, 10-12 is ideal.

If it's more of a DLD-style free for all where there's just a table of bottles and you grab what you want, then you can have more people.

Granted the latter has a bigger chance to be a shit-show, but I would hope we're all mature enough to avoid that (insert line about hoping in one hand and cropping in the other).

 

I feel like the latter would make people feel like they need to bring more bottles as well. If it's just a giant FFA, any great bottles people intended to "share" would be gone before everybody has a chance to sit down.

 

Yeah, that's not the best setting for whales. Something like a Side Note wouldn't last long. It's more of a casual limited release/out of distro event where people pick and choose more. IE maybe you skip the NE IPA of the week that you were able to get, but you try a few things you missed like Black Note, BA Prairie, other NE IPA, ect.

 

WTF mannnn.....

 

Spot on. I just prefer shares that go 1 or 2 at a time and you focus more on the beer than a table full of bombers and you just chug samples till its gone.

 

I PM'd you.

 

I think it depends on the beer selection.

If it's something like a Diabeetus share (DL variants), then yeah, limit it to 10-12 people, bring a bottle a piece, and open one at a time. That makes sense due to ABV, cost and rarity.

If it's something like a NE or non-Chicago distro IPA share, people can bring more stuff and it kind of makes sense to be more casual.

I think both can be/are viable.

 

I agree with the above, but the point would be to clarify which of those 2 types of shares youre doing, or where you are on the spectrum in general.

You could suggest to do one IPA/Sour and one stout/BW each. Something along those lines

 

For what it's worth, I looked into Irazu party room, and I don't think its worth it financially. I'll keep looking into other spots.

I would also like to keep it small. 10-12 seems about right.

 

how much was it?

 

$30/pp, minimum 15.

So $450 base, plus a $200 deposit and tax, gratuity, etc.

More work than I want to put in to pop some bottles.

 

Ouch! Thanks for looking into that, and no thanks.

 

Yea thats way to high just to use an event space. to drink for a couple of hours.