Monkish Brewing

Dammit, double fail. Ticket popped up available, went to add it, got an error. Ugh.

 

officially sold out now

 

App saying it's now sold out.

 

Says "Sold Out" now so it's definitely done....

 

Got my bottle using the app. It was easy though I think I saw some linecutters who were drinking.

 

Got one.

 

no BT vert, no care.

 

Scored. I was able to get it on the desktop. I am glad I was able to get one this go around. Got shutout the last time.

 

Lol at IG. People claiming bots snatched them up.

 

You know what bots can't do? use a marker on their hand or take a deli ticket.

 

So it was 300 bottles total including the homie pre-sale? I'd be surprised if there were more than 200 bottles available today...

Add in some of those homies doubling up today (you know it's inevitable), tough get yo...

 

Yeah, let's do online can sales so we can bitch about bots and servers.

 

there's no winning... people that miss out will always bitch.

 

Got one on the 1208 second chance.

 

I think eventually Monkish will get their own canning line and switch to the Tree House model -- put it up for sale as soon as it's packaged. That would certainly reduce the lines somewhat by spreading them throughout the week, but I have no doubt that we will collectively find something to complain about in that model, too. Let's all start brainstorming now.

 

Ha ha. if you think the hype train line craziness is stopping any time soon.

 

That's easy! To start...

Traffic, Weekday releases, "Wha...I can't drink in line anymore?"

 

Didn't double dip to give others a chance. Plus, I think the "rules" stated no duplicate orders and that monkish reserved the right to cancel and refund an order.

Not sure what duplicate orders means exactly, but it's there.

 

Same here...one in the cart then "Unavailable"

Sold Out notification at 12:10

 

On this topic of a "solution" to the line-cutting problem that you, @Earlycsquid , and a few others are discussing...

I think it's an awesome start that Henry is aware of the problem and sympathetic enough to the concerns that he would *try* to abide by and enforce any self-policing method that the participants in the line tried to employ.

That said, the marker idea is not an effective solution, for the reasons others mentioned-- some asshole could just bring his own Sharpie (or whatever marker type) and have all of his bro/homiez draw numbers on their hands and act all confused about how this could have possibly happened, and try to argue that they were there the whole time, and whatever.... Douchebags gonna douche it up. That plan would ultimately put the Monkish guys, again, in an uncomfortable position of having to make a ruling on who gets the beer and who doesn't, and many butts would surely be hurt.

I'd think something a little less "counterfeitable" could be cool-- like the suggested deli-counter idea. But at some point, if the system is predictable and routine, assholes will probably try to figure out a way to game the system again, like the infamous Hunahpu's Day fiasco from a couple of years ago (photocopied tickets, basically). I'm not sure a deli-counter ticket thing would be very susceptible to counterfeiting, but I'm also not sure it WOULDN'T.

What I'd really like to see, as a sort of "social experiment," or if nothing else than for pure entertainment, is ONE person, or perhaps a small group of people, really try to take charge of a situation like this-- so they show up early as hell, try to control the line, and communicate with every one of the hardcores there at the earliest moments what their intentions and the line control protocols are, and they just ride out the whole thing and take ownership of it... like trying to keep everyone informed as new people show up in line. But the key here is that, instead of this person being a Monkish employee, it is a member of the beer community, since Monkish does not apparently have the resources to take the reigns on this entirely on their own. But don't rely on a flimsy system like a magic marker with a whole body of people acting as "enforcers"-- take a more careful, more secure process, and take some role as a leader of the entire group.

So maybe this person (or group) *volunteers* their time (good luck with that) and treats the whole experience with the primary goal of controlling the line and mitigating all of the community's concerns about cutting, bottle-sharing, "ballooning" or whatever else you guys want to call it... OR... maybe this person figures out a way, if their actions are truly effective and for the community's greater good, to set up a system of donations from the other members of the community, to help compensate them for their time and the burden of cost of whatever deli-counter ticket system or magic marker-on-hand system or clipboard-and-name system they employed.... With a couple of hundred people in line, and if the system proves successful, I would imagine you could get a decent little return even just from accumulation of some chump change or up to like a buck a person, for your troubles. Pass out business cards with an email link to your PayPal account so people could choose to make small donations AFTER the event if they feel like your system was effective and it helped create an equitable, less douchey environment for all attendees.

I'd do all this shit myself (and for free-- but I'd try the donation thing just to see how it went) if I weren't a grown-ass man with a real job and other time constraints impacting my ability to "go all-in" on the solution. "Unfortunately," I won't be there on Saturday... Or if I had an unemployed relative that I felt could tackle such an endeavor, I'd love to see someone go into one of these situations with a take-charge attitude and some creative problem-solving skills.

Anyone want to jump on it and lay claim to the leadership role, and all that it entails? Even though I won't be there on Saturday to benefit from any of your efforts, I'll make the first commitment for a donation.