EBF Beer Drops

Isnt Half Acre already distro'ed in Massachusetts?

 

They started distro around the time of Copenhagen Beer Celebration in 2016. It's not full distro, but we have been getting semi-regular shipments ever since.

 

I feel like the majority of out of distro stuff usually starts dropping the week after the fest, but we shall see.

 

Barrier and Newburgh cans today at a few places, havent seen anything else yet.

 

Barrier cans - that's nice. Any specifics on where they've been popping up?

 

agreed, Money was one of my favorite beers at EBF two years ago

 

Friend was at Julios when he sent the txt, so id assume decent craft beer stores around worcester/metro west today with deliveries throughout the week.

 

Nope. Only when they're in town for festivals. Once or twice a year maybe.

 

September 2016, January 2017, September 2017, January 2018.

I guess that doesn’t meet the definition of semi-regular for everyone.

 

Fort Point Market killing it today - Barrier, Half Acre, and Burial drops.

 

Trying to find the pattern....trying to find it?

 

If anyone is curious, I put together a list of all the EBF drops that have made it to Fort Point Market (off their instagram) so far. They seem to be ahead of the game, but I imagine most of these will make it to the usual shops pretty soon as well.

Barrier
Non-Cent Pale Ale
Tanto IPA
Juice Chills DDH IPA (Rushing Duck collab)
Money Mad Fat! IPA (Interboro collab)

Newburgh
Cream Ale
Nano Boss Pale Ale
Mega Boss IPA
Giga Boss DIPA

Half Acre
Daisy Cutter Pale Ale
Gone Away IPA
Plane Wave IPA
Navaja DIPA

Burial
Ceremonial Session IPA
Hawk Bill IPA
Surf Wax IPA
Massacre of the Innocents IPA
Skillet Donut Stout
Griddle Imperial Espresso Stout
Jealousy & Murder Mixed Culture Saison (Blackberry Farm collab)
Jumping the Pool Sour with Pink Lemonade Blueberries (Night Shift collab)

Sketchbook
Insufficent Clearance Hazy IPA
Orange Door DDH IPA

 

A couple others I wasn't sure were EBF-related:
Urban Artifact Pocket Watch Sour with Grape, Plum, and Blackcurrants
Against the Grain London Balling BA Barleywine and Citra Ass Down DIPA (appears they could have distribution through 12%, but I haven't seen it)

CBC Belmont when I went on Monday only had Half Acre so far, but they did have Tuna as well as the ones at Fort Point. Pretty hefty stacks of cases as well.

 

This is a bit of a tangent, but does anyone know why Fort Point Market seems to get the best drops, or are there other locations that get the same stuff and just dont tweet about it?

 

Best drops at the best prices too.

 

I think you've certainly nailed part of it -- Tony does a fantastic job on social media and they are more frequent with their posts than any other shop I can think of in Boston. I'm not a beer industry guy, but I assume if you're moving lots of beer (as a result of promotion on social media), you probably get more bottles and cases frequently?

I picked up 3F there today -- 375's of Armand & Gaston and Oude Geuze and a 750 of OG as well. Thought that may have been related to EBF, but on second thought, maybe not...

 

Craft Collective is dropping special/limited beers from these breweries this week and early next:

Beer'd (special cans this week even though not an EBF brewery)
Bolero Snort
Bottle Logic
Brewery Vivant
Burial
Four Quarters
KCBC
Relic
Throwback
Transient
Transmitter
TRVE

We usually emphasize the Boston area for EBF related drops.

 

Assuming you work for CC, in which I just want to say, you guys crush it.

Is everything you mentioned going to be in shops, or will some drop as draft-only?

 

Thanks man. Our pleasure.

Everything I listed is package (mostly cans) that will hit bottle shops.