Official FOBAB Countdown Thread

The previous venue was not a possibility.

Interest in the event has increased exponentially yearly.

Furthermore, it's not fair to anyone to make volunteers have to "Judge" when a 5 Gal keg needs to be pulled off. It had definitely hurt the evening session more than once due to kegs being left on too long.

There is no "fix".. just "grow". It wasn't possible to leave it as it was.

If anything, people should be happy. The evening session is no longer effected by these keg size issues. They get the slate wiped clean and a fair shot at all the beers.

 

Since I am going to the evening, I am not complaining.

 

Can someone tell me what the carry-on limitations are? Can we bring in a backpack food, water, tradeable beer?

 

You sure about that? I emailed them and they say I had to contact BPT directly to change the name on the ticket, this was Friday, and I am waiting for a reply after I asked them to change the name.

 

Yep. Totally sure

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Brown Paper Tickets! You are okay to give your ticket to someone else - the name on the ticket does not need to match the attendee's, so as long as they bring the ticket with them, they'll be fine.

Please let me know if i can be of further assistance.

Thanks!

Jen McKinney
Customer Service Representative
Brown Paper Tickets
www.brownpapertickets.com
[email protected]
800-838-3006

 

This is what BPT told me repeatedly for Bolt Cutter until Founders came out with an email stating I had to change it on the back end. Just an FYI.

 

I would be a bit hesitant to buy or trade tickets because of this. It is one thing for the ticketing agency to tell you something about how the event organizers will handle tickets, and how the event organizers actually choose to carry out the ticket could be entirely different.

An official statement by the FOBAB organizers would be a serious consideration.

 

You are all so worried about your tickets.....but how bout a taplist for the event!? DAYUM!!!

 

Dontcounttoday's right
ticket exchange is risky
Will call is a must

 

Email hasn't gotten a response for me. Anyone have a connection to someone in the know?

 

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/fobab-2012-november-17th.34013/page-6#post-462902

 

Just threw up the name on your ticket question on FOBAB fbook page. Post here if they respond.

 

so, as we all get our panties wet about ticket issues, can someone get my panties wet with a list of brewers or even better brew list?

 

Anything official would probably show up here: http://www.illinoisbeer.com/fobab/
I think last year the only preview we got was through word of mouth (ie people contacting breweries and posting whatever info they could find in the FOBAB thread), although they may have released at least a brewery list a few days before the event (memory is foggy). It's kind of exiting to be surprised though, and looking over the lineup when they finally hand you the "menu" is great.

 

So far the only two I've seen post what they are bringing are Flat12 and Revolution.

Rev:

• Very Mad Cow (BA Mad Cow Milk Stout)
• Mean Gene (BA Eugene Porter)
• Straight Jacket (BA Institutionalized Barleywine)
• Burt (BA Bandit Smoked Stout)

Flat12:

• Moustache Ride Red
• Wine-barrel-aged Winter Cyle IPA
• Cow Tipper Bourbon-barrel Milk Stout)

 

via twitter and TBS

Oakshire tweeted they are bringing
Brewers Reserve 6 Anniversary (Brandy Barrel Barleywine)
Bourbon stout
Recall This??

 

via Atlas Brewing's Twitter:

"Just kegged up oak-aged Monadnock Rye Ale for #FoBAB. It's the only keg that will ever exist. Ever."

https://twitter.com/AtlasBrewing/statuses/268428192312852481

 

Just saw this from Pig Minds (Machesney Park, IL):

Pig Minds:

• Belgium/dub/sour bbl aged with raspberry
• Belgium/dub/sour bbl aged with strawberry
• bbl aged IPA
• coffee stout brown ale with raspberry

 

well i can go ahead and put this on my list.


Question for you vets. We get a certain amount of tasting tickets but my question is how much are the samples? 2 tickets or 3 tickets for some? Or is it all 2 or 1 ticket?

 

1 ticket = 1 sample

Additional tickets can be purchased for $1 each