New in Kentucky

I don't even think B&L was $20 a bottle. I don't clearly remember, but I can't imagine this would be more.

 

Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it was the variants they sold outside of the four pack variants of B&L that were $18 a bottle... not too sure. It's been a couple years since I've been to an AtG release.

 

Madtree is mostly in the NKY area.

 

What @semibaked said. It only hits Lexington when someone hauls it back from NKY/Cincy.

 

I've only ever seen MadTree's pumpkin beer at liquor barn in Danville. Thought it was weird because I didn't think they distributed to Central KY. This was back in the fall and I haven't seen anything or been back to the Danville LB since then so who knows.

 

Hey all. Moving to Louisville in a few months and subscribing to keep in the loop. Shame 70K is releasing next weekend. I'm going to be in for Derby.

We have pretty good ATG distro here in Chicago, though, so I should be able to find it.

 

Yeah, that one store in Chicago (whatever it is) will surely get some 70K, but who knows how much.

And welcome in advance to Kentucky.

 

Ah, yes, the Madtree Pumpkin, I forgot. They evidently did that to guage interest in the product down here. Why you test a market with a pumpkin beer (and lots of it) makes little sense, more like a can dump on our area.

 

They still had plenty of bottles of JSP a week after the release, so unless they bottled significantly fewer bottles of Mexican Chocolate, I'd say a few bottles should still be available. As @IMFletcher said earlier in this thread, nothing local really sells out here anymore

 

Went there, tried it (again), plus a few of the other specials. There's cinnamon and pepper in that beer, but not coffee and chocolate. I actually hold the opinion that this would have been better if not barrel-aged, which I feel thins out the beer and doesn't add anything to it.

The Lime Cougar Bait thing already kicked, but I thought the Mango Nacho Bait was good, but could use more Mango, and the Jalapeno/Pineapple Hard Cider didn't have enough pineapple or cider. The heat on both was good, though the cider was dominated by the heat.

I bought a bottle because a trader's wife loves spicy beer.

 

It did seem like the Mexican Chocolate was limit two per person, because I didn't see anyone hauling 4.

 

Went as well. I enjoyed it but definitely didn't taste any coffee or chocolate. It was all pepper and cinnamon. And then rum. The entire drive home all I could taste was rum and it was less than pleasant. I bought two bottles, one to trade and one to keep and see what happens

 

I had to back my Untappd rating down .25 stars after I got home.

Interestingly, I didn't get any chocolate, but definitely got cinnamon from the glass I had.