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This makes me sad but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

 

$20 bucks is ridiculous, I know The beer store in Nashua was getting a small amount of BCBS sometime soon, I'm not paying that price for it. It's a great beer but not worth that price

 

I don't agree with the distributor forcing them to mark up the bcbs, however it also seems silly to me that a store isn't willing to carry their year round product and still expects multiple cases of a hard to get allocation. How does that reward repeat business?

 

There's willing and there is jamming down your throats. Requiring a store buy a drop vs. allocating based on prior sales are two completely different things.

 

There were stores (plural, multiple) in Boston area who were offered more BCBS than the distributor of southern NH got in total. And not stores that hosted events or anything, just regular stores.

 

How many would that be?

 

Any confirmed reports of regal bottles other than cask and vines event next year. I'm know they'd be all gone in 2 minutes just curious if they ever did show up.

 

Cigarette City in Seabrook had planned a BCBS tasting event for Friday afternoon with bottle sales to follow and evidently the rep showed up with only a few bottles of 2014. The clerks told me it was a total disaster - even the rep was kept in the dark and didn't know what he had to deliver until that day.

I dropped by Prost in Hampton a few days ago and they had a big display of GI cases right in the front - coincidence? And at Carl's in Kittery yesterday among the stacks of cases they have in the center of the store was a pile of GI IPA. This is my local butcher - I have been going in there 2-3 times a week for many years and I have NEVER seen a GI product there before. I don't think the timing of this stack of GI cases is a coincidence - it certainly seems like the northern New England GI reps are forcing the GI portfolio on everyone.