Anyone seen a bottle or two? Please let me know. I swear it was everywhere three months ago, & the supply suddenly dried up. Thanks,
Hopefully they will make it again next year. Once I heard it was being "retired" I scooped up 3 or 4 bottles.
I think that's exactly what happened. One day it was at every store I visited, the next day, *poof*. Gone.
I heard the reason it was retired was because it is the base for BCBS and since AB bought them they were no longer bottling Nightstalker because they want to use it all for the BCBS line. Which means more BCBS stuff but I am not sure that is a good thing especially when AB says they are going to have a "hands off" approach with it's acquisition of GI. Not really looking that way.
In St. Paul there is a little liquor store in Lowertown that had some the last time I was in. You might also try Merwins as they have had some great GI beers recently. I've found a lot of these beers that are hard to find at your main go to bottle shops are still sitting on the shelf either in the burbs or in smaller shops you wouldn't think to frequent. Best of luck. Also I think there is some truth to it being the base to the Bourbon County line up but I bet it will be back. -Tucker
Thanks all. A kind BA steered me to a store with two still on the shelf, & a couple other kind souls offered to trade me bottles out of their cellar. Twin Cities people is good people!
I do remember hearing or reading that it is the same beer, before it heads for additional dry-hopping, and BCBS heads for barrels. For whatever that's worth.
Cook County Stout is what it is before it goes to dry-hopping to become Nightstalker, or to barrels to become BCBS? And it is sold as such? That I hadn't heard.
Unreal. To me, in the Chicago suburbs, I haven't seen it in about a year. Although, had one the other night (from my personal stash) - very very underrated beer - it was fantastic.
This is an interesting phenomenon. I've been chasing Firestone Walker lately, and have seen it with them. Sells like wildfire in home state; gets distributed elsewhere and sits on shelves. There should be some sort of reverse distribution to bring that stuff back to where the demand is.
