Despot Day 2016

It should be showing at the bottom of the page right after you login to your account under "Purchase Reminders" At least mine is showing there and then when I clock on "View" it shows all details. And Yes. LCCB should have a list of all ticket holders so you will show your ID. Good to have the purchase confirmation email just in case.

 

Yeah LCCB said they'll have your name on a list

 

I overheard them say there's going to be a lot of regular Despot left over.

 

Wouldn't be surprised. Wonder if they will stick to the comment of whatever does not sell out tonight will be released throughout the year. If a lot is left over I could see them letting regular go Sun too.

 

Thought despot day went great, thanks to the ticketed release essentially no line to pick up my bottle allotment, tried several pins easily, etc. Good time on the farm.

 

It was my first time out to Goochland, I didn't catch on with how the Pin tappings worked very quickly, but other than that, no complaints whatsoever. Very smooth acquiring bottles. Would have hung all day except it was a bit chilly out there.

 

Great event. Ran very smoothly, no problem getting pours of things I wanted to try (except for hug, since it was out at one point but apparently they re-tapped it again later and I was already done getting pours for the day). A friend that came with me opened one of his bottles of Hide last night and I actually did think it tasted a bit different than regular Despot.

 

Apparently they had some draft problems with Hug on the inside tap. It stopped pouring so they had thought it kicked. When they went to switch it out to another keg they tried pouring it one more time and if worked again. It didn't last long after the second time so the keg must have been almost empty when if stopped pouring.

 

Bottle sales ran so smoothly I was able to get my group b bottles halfway through group a. Easily worth the $10 ticket.

 

From my observation, the $10 ticket & pre-determined allocation was one of the smoothest releases I have been to. Would gladly do it again. Bummer that the highlights of the guest taps were kicked by my arrival (1:30ish). The pin line was a bit of a mess & could use better organization to alleviate cutting. Also someone picked up my buddies allocation when I was his proxy & he wasn't there? dunno how that happened, maybe in trying to mark then name above or below.

 

So what happened with your friend's allocation? SOL?

 

How were the beers? Sounds like a great event, run well, lot of fun - just curious if everyone was impressed with Despot and the varietals.

I don't usually do releases but this one sounds like a nice family friendly day and not just standing in line for hours.

 

Had a Hug the Despot on draft and I thought it was great, lots of vanilla. Other than that I only tried pins and Resolute, which was also excellent. Haven't gotten into any of my bottles yet, really curious to hear some Hide reviews.

 

Not a very in depth review, but we opened a Hide immediately upon getting home from the event (well, my buddies place who was housing us, who lives about 30-40 minutes away). It was a bit more bourbon forward than regular enlightened, and it helped mask the hops fairly well (something I'm not a huge fan of and will wait to open the only bottle of enlightened I'm keeping for myself because of). Nothing mind blowing, but definitely a step up from enlightened, and the difference is noticeable, something I was worried about.

 

They fumbled for a bit, then said "let him buy we will have left over". Not a huge issue, but just wondering how it happened. It was pretty much 4 oclock when I was in line & he was group C.

 

I guess that's one reason to get one of the early Groups for pickup. I can understand human error. Very easy to accidentally mark off the wrong name on a list and you also probably have dishonest people out there who may pickup their allocation and then coming up later in the evening trying to get another claiming they didn't pickup already. At least they were able to accommodate you and your friend.

Supreme Leader tickets are still available and that's a but surprised that it didn't sell out quick. They stated selling only 600 (200 per group) but after realizing that HW will probably release Foolery on the same day it's keeping the RVA crazies away. It is a bit funny to ready the RVA trading pages and some local groups with people saying they cannot make SL and looking for proxies or someone to split bottles with. They should just be up front, "I cannot make SL because I'm going to Foolery...." Maybe even a "ISO: SL (pre) FT: Foolery (pre)" Hoarders gotta hoard. HA

 

SL sounds amazing but I can't budget another trip to VA so soon not to mention the cost of the bottles

 

maybe also because SL was distro'd last year?
unfortunately, many of those RVA traders are the epitome of #newmoney...

 

I think this is definitely a factor, SL wasn't hard to come by even in Hampton roads last year.

 

Valid point. I was expecting SL to be more like the 2nd year of Despot. It was not on the radar in year 1 and then everyone knew about, as was looking forward to it, this year. But the event does not say brewery release only so even though 600 tickets are available for the brewery (3,600 bottles) they could very well have some aside back some for distro. It was one of my top VA beers from last year so at least I am looking very forward to it moreso than Foolery.