Firestone Walker: "BRAVO" Finally Takes A Bow

Nothing in Bergen county NJ yet. Not in the 3 places I hit, 2 in NJ total wine and my local place....and cable beverages near Nanuet ny.

 

I guess the big question here is are more of you getting it than years past releases of their Reserve stuff. I'm not sweating it here because I'm seeing this everywhere here and one of my places even has qty 60+, $10 and no limit in NoCal. Although large format bottles of XX are collecting dust around here too. Life sucks.

Hopefully more of you are seeing and getting this than before. I think this is FW's goal. I'm assuming this will be especially nice if this is the case for parabola and more of u can get it than before. I agree, get rid of the box at this size. At $10/12 oz it's really just the equivalent of $2 more per large bottle.

 

From what I can see, it's still limit one and still selling out the same day or close to it in places that have more limited distribution.

 

For past FSW boxed beer releases, 2-3 stores would get a case each and limit it to 1. This time around, only one store got Bravo, but they received 4 cases, and they do not have a limit on it at 9.29. I was a little intrigued by the no limit, infact 3 weeks has gone by, and it is still sitting on the shelf. I'm hoping this is the fact for Parabola, so I can get a couple bottles of it.

 

I passed on bottles when they hit Colorado Springs, but did have it on draft last week locally. I have to say, it's not my favorite.... WAY too sweet and one-dimensional for me. Glad I passed on the $11 bottle (although it was a $9 pour so fuck me, right?).

 

Draught always costs more, and in 98% of the case, tastes better too.

 

A year ago I would travel to the adjacent state and trade in order to get 2 or 3 bottles of FW vintage releases. Now FW is in CT and while I've doubled what I'm trying to pick up I have had little problem getting what I wanted when it comes to Bravo. It hasn't even dropped in my immediate area yet.

To echo others if Parabola is this easy to pick up I will be over the moon. Although I am not holding my breath.

 

$9.99 here in Portland with no limit at my local store

 

Tried it at the Venice location. Good stuff. Strong as hell too

 

It will not be the same for Parabola. In So Cal it is relatively easy to find all the other firestone boxed beers, I can still find Helldorado and sucaba and I passed on Bravo last night. However, Parabola disappears within days. Maybe this year it last a month seeing that Firestone Venice still has the 2016 available.

 

Thought this was too sweet too. Didn't make it through my bottle. First FW beer I straight up did not like.

 

baby parabola!

 

I want an adult one