Introducing Jester King 2016 SPON — Méthode Gueuze

When you say three, two and over year old beer are you referring to the beer aging in the barrel for a full 365 days or by calendar year? In other words 2016 would be one year old beer?

In the past I did it with aging the beer I full year, but I think this time I might not wait as long and use the young beer to carbonate in the bottle.

 

Side note: Would love it if Jester King did a subscription model.

 

Man, BA has mellowed out. A comment like this would have sparked wildfire by now.

 

We have been broken. Now stay on topic, pleb!

 

While accounting for on-site consumption, are you guys factoring in other bottles which might be available? I could see maybe selling 50-100 of these per weekend if that's the only item available, but if you've got other fruits and variants of spon then that might be more than you need.

 

I could see going through 85 bottles quickly only for the first few weekends. After the novelty wears off and people that must have it first get their ticks it should sit longer. It's just like when they opened up an In N out burger in SA, line out the door for a month, then people realised it will always be there you don't need to rush to get it.

 

We'll be announcing release details on Monday.

 

CAN'T WAIT - Bart Scott

 

Likewise!

 

Details are up:

http://jesterkingbrewery.com/2016-spon-methode-gueuze-release-details

 

Awesome to see you guys offering one of each size per day. Was hoping to leave with more than a single bottle of this, so at least there's a chance

Cheers!

 

Sounds delicious and incredibly excited to try it. Love the way Jester King is holding back in-house bottles. Only thing that disappoints me is the price tag. Jester King is currently selling Boon Geuze, which is an awesome beer, for $12 for a 750ml. With my personal beer budget, it's simply hard for me to justify spending 3x as much for a Spon bottle.

 

Then you should buy 3x Boon Geuze.

 

The bottle cost is steep, but if it somehow turns out anything like a Cantillon or Drie Fonteinen beer, then its well worth the price. IMO

 

The chances of that are slim. The price point is crazy. I really hope it doesn't sell out because then it just endorses the fact that we are willing to overpay for hype. Try the beer on tap before you waste your money. I think most will find it's not worth that price.

 

Is it though? If they put 10k bottles out with no limits, it would sell out the first weekend, maybe the first day. Most people will definitely not think it's worth the price, but you only need a few thousand beer nerds to think it is worth the price. And there are way more than that around. I'm not typically a person that throws around a supply and demand argument, but something like Atrial sells out immediately at a not-that-much-cheaper price point and this is something more unique and took much longer and more care to make. If you weren't expecting it to be at least $30, then I don't know what to say.

 

Comparative to other gueuze style beers it is vastly the most expensive especially a non-fruited gueuze made in the traditional way.

 

Regarding price point, this beer took us three years and nine months to make. I'm scared to do the math on how much money we lost tying up so much space and cooperage for so long.

 

No need to justify your price point.