OHB Event Horizon 2013

If the city of hickory hoards EH like it did LP this year, I should be able to score 6 cases or so... haha

 

ISO!

 

Anticipated release Dec 2 FYI

 

Hey Carolina BAs

Hook a brother up with some olde hickory!

Sincerely,
Thirsty Georgian!

 

$13 for a barrel aged stout is not what one would call expensive

 

It is when it's not any good. And you can get a Big Bad Baptist for a dollar cheaper at 3x the quality.

 

BBB isn't that good. Therefore, its expensive.

 

Haha you've got a BBB, bad bias buddy...BBB is a thinner stout and picks up zero barrel qualities from the casks....and to boot it's not from NC

 

yea Leif said a few weeks yet, and usually people limit it to 4 bottles per person. I usually get around 5 for sharing and trades.

 

It took me a year on regular trips to learn where everything was, then they moved EVERYTHING. Im just now firguring it all out again.

 

Definitely ISO! BM me if you are interested in trading for CCB

 

I wasn't comparing the beers, and I know I'm in the minority on Lindley Park. But your stats proved my point, there are many BBA stouts rated that high in the same price range. (.03 difference in rating is damn close). Another example I currently have in the fridge is Red Brick 20th Ann BBA imp stout. 2 12oz bottles would be at the same price point. Plus countless others that comes in small format. Was only disagreeing with the comment made about 13.99 not being expensive for a BBA imp stout.

 

It's not expensive at all...god forbid you see bourbon barrel aged IBB at a store, you're gonna need aspirin for a heart attack. How does one example, BBB, show that there are "many" BA stouts rated that high and in the same price range? Red Brick 20th is not a good example, if we were talking about heresy, it might be a good example...but thin bodied, beginner barrel aged stouts aren't what we're talking about, nor bottles in a 12oz format.

What's $20-$13. $7? $7 bucks cheaper than the average, and actually good, BA Impy Stouts seems like enough of an amount to say its cheap, not expensive.

 

Absolutely average, but if u read the original post, I was saying I would have drain poured my bottle of LP if it weren't so expensive and hard to find. In the grand picture of beer, hell yes 13.99 is expensive for 25.4 oz of beer (I think LP was a 750, not 650). Far too expensive to drain pour. Even more so due to the fact it took me 3 years to actually land one.

 

In the grand picture of beer...that would mean everything is relevant, correct? So the cost of raspberries, purchasing barrels, labor for filling and emptying the barrels, the storage of the barrels in a warehouse space, and even the little bit for the hand dipped wax top that aren't included in the costs of regular imperial stouts...and this beer costs about the same as bombers for imperial stouts that aren't barrel aged and don't have raspberries added. I'm not sure why I even care to debate that it isn't an expensive beer, especially with someone who thinks it's worthy of a drain pour

 

Its all relative really. I mean wine is another example. Why am I going to pay $40 for a bottle of wine when this $15 bottle is much cheaper and just as good. But that's in my opinion. You may like the $40 bottle and are willing to sacrifice whatever to obtain it. But the taste is what's going to be valuable for the consumer. If its that good, people will pay for it. If people don't like it, they won't pay for it. Its just that easy.

 

For my Charlotte brethren, Duckworth's (Park and Huntersville, it seems) will be doing another release/breakfast/bottle share on Saturday, Dec. 7.

https://twitter.com/OldeHickory/status/403273422249418752

 

and for those paying attention over the past couple of yrs, that's the day or day before all the CLT bottle shops get theirs