Kane Brewing (December 2015)

Details on the 2014 release.

"This year's release is more than twice the size of our first. We have close to 125 cases of A Night To End All Dawn and approximately 50 cases each of the three variants. All bottles are $16."

Totals out to 1,500 regular and 600 of each variant.

 

How many bottles of Sunday brunch were there?

I would like to see a 2 limit of the regular and 1 of each variant.

Think my boss would mind if I called out of work the next 6 work days? I could be first on line!

 

My guess would be 4,000-5,000 bottles. Each barrel holds about 267 bottles and the whole side wall had ANTEAD barrels - More than 30. I'm sure some barrels are for kegging - lets hope they bottle enough

 

a ticketed event would definitely be my preference, but being that i live less than 5 mins away from the brewery, i should be able to get online pretty close to the front. Really looking forward to this.

 

2nd .. already here

 

That's just not a possibility this year. They had already brewed this batch of ANTEAD when it blew up last year. They didn't have the capacity or space yet to have a much larger run. There will be more than last year, but not by much.

 

Soo realistically what time is everyone thinking of getting in line?

 

They are buying their own canning line, but it takes time.

 

A source says that they have doubled the amount from last year. So 4-5,000 bottles isnt a long shot. That being said, I still hope the limits are low. You don't need 3 cases of this beer. Stop it.

 

As far as limits go, my guess is they're going to do 4 regular and 2 of each variant per person. I also wouldn't be surprised if there was a special, more limited variant that most people aren't expecting that will be a 1 bottle limit, but that might be a separate release

 

As far as variants go, I saw 4 Willet rye Barrels, so I'm going to guess 800 ish post evaporation since one cognac barrel yielded 200 bottles of 1460 (assuming no kegs of variants). Again, obviously we have no idea how much will get kegged but I recall over 50 barrels along the front wall so that would be a run of close to 10k minus the kegs.

I believe SB was 1200 bottles.

 

Someone definitely mentioned double the size in a previous thread. I don't believe it was anyone from Kane though.

There was also a picture in the now deleted thread that showed how many barrels were stacked.

 

Yesterday.

 

I also remember them citing 2x more this year over last year, so I think 6,000 bottles is a reasonable estimate. ANTEAD was released first week of May in 2014, and all barrels I saw for 2015 were filled in June and July of 2014, so I'm pretty sure they were able to significantly increase production.

 

What were the limits on it last year? i remember people coming away with huge hauls of it

 

Changed throughout the day.

 

Is this a humble brag about having a mule?

 

My brother is a semi mule. He loves to attend "an event." He will drink some beer and shoot the shit but he doesn't care about bringing a bottle home.

No mules yet. I just put my "Beer Mules Wanted" ad up on Craigslist. What is the going rate for beer mules? (J/K)

 

I think that depends on the bottle counts and limits. If its 1PP on the variants, people will show up later. The larger the haul, the further people will come and the earlier they will show up.