Official Weldwerks Thread

No other bottles of these Medianoche variants available on Friday, other than for Eventbrite ticket holders. But we will have a limited amount of each variant on draft starting Friday, and five new can releases.

 

It’s always interesting to see the statistics from these releases, but for this one in particular, over 92% of the tickets were claimed by Colorado residents (just 7.3% from out of state, to be exact). So the overwhelming majority of tickets were claimed by locals, which is what we have seen for nearly any ticketed release we have done.

 

I'd imagine that since you have to pick them up in person, that cuts down on too many people from out of state winning the lottery.

 

I know a few people that were already planning to be here for one of the two weekends when pick up is available were pretty excited to "stumble" into the opportunity to get tickets. Some did, some didn't but it I do like that 92+% of tix are for locals. I'm sure some WY and NE people that aren't too far away account for some (small) percentage too!

 

I, personally, know that I need at least two weeks to plan my trip out to the Denver area...so any release window that's fairly tight is an automatic miss for me. GABF is one of their best opportunities to increase exposure, so I believe WeldWerks has astutely planned Medianoche releases for those events, with several weeks notice.

Surprisingly, (to me and of course the locals on this thread) I think the general consumer still doesn't know enough about WeldWerks. Neil and staff do a great job at all the festivals and in the tap room, but we'd see much higher secondary prices (as a reflection of @Dicers comment) if people had tried some of the other Medianoche variants. So, the work continues. I'll be trying to trade for these two since I'm missing out, but overall the release schedule has been extremely fair and well done. Coco/Reg Noche was tough to stomach, but worth the wait.

 

I think the overall beer scene was just a bit reluctant after the infection issues of 2017. That being said, I think Neil and crew are crushing it. I visit at least once a month and usually more often that that. Both my GF and I love their beer and some friends from TX ask me to pick them up cans pretty regularly.

I don't really care about the secondary cost, I'll get mine and drink them or I'm lucky to have friends (or be close enough to try on tap) that will open them. WW is my favorite all around brewery in the state and one of my favorites in the country

 

^^^ I have two friends coming in for the Casey EF party on the 15th so they were stoked about this one and were lucky enough to get tickets. I've gotten lucky like this with a few Bottle Logic releases in the past so I am obviously a fan of the system.

 

Maybe its just me, but I'd think that seeing bottles being re-sold for $200 would make me really wanna jack my prices up if I were WW!

They should really be getting those profits.

 

See Toppling Goliath and J. Wakefield

 

Have they been raising prices? If so- that’s great!

Pardon my ignorance- I despise going to the P.O. so I never got into trading matter the less overpaying for beer..

 

How does anyone pay secondary for beer anyway? Beer is an expensive hobby/way of life BEFORE a secondary price.

 

To be fair that just raises the secondary and gets the beer is different (more wealthy hands)

 

Will there be a set amount of each variant on tap set aside to last the weekend or once they’re tapped on Friday that’s it for the entire weekend?

 

Asking important questions here... with a ten day pick-up window it would seem weird to only set aside enough for the first weekend so I am assuming single kegs of each and once they're kicked, that's a wrap (for now).

 

14 day pick-up window.... I also don't think that 14 kegs of each is likely unfortunately

EDIT Yeah I'm dumb it is 10

 

I'm not a math doctor, but I am pretty sure it's ten days... Fri, Dec 7, 2018, 12:00 PM – Sun, Dec 16, 2018, 5:00 PM MST

It amounts to the same though, very doubtful drafts will last through the window.

 

Edited for my caffeine lacking brain and admitting my faults hahaha. I'm hoping 2 kegs of each for each weekend of the pick up window

 

We have a limited amount of draft, so we are just tapping both variants on Friday and pouring them until they’re gone. With the draft release and the five new cans we are dropping (including Other Half and New Image collabs), it will probably be a busy start to the weekend, so if you decide to come Friday, be warned that there will likely be a bit of a wait. If you would rather not deal with the crowds, Sunday will probably be your best bet to pick up bottles.

 

I definitely didn’t expect them to have enough of each Noche to last for the entire pickup window. That’s why I specifically asked just about the weekend. Hopefully draft pours last at least into Saturday.

 

At Coconut/Regular Medianoche release a couple months ago I believe it was the PB Cup Noche that kicked before I even made it in the door - around 4 pm? If it (either) makes it past Friday, Jesus loves someone visiting Saturday.