Did anyone else on here get an email invite to join pFriem's new membership club, and if so did you join?
I’m not subscribed to their email list but curious as to what it entails? Just signed up for the newsletter now.
It's an invite only thing (I have no idea how I made the cut). Quarterly releases of barrel-aged pFriem beer. Your credit card is on file and they bill you for 12 bottles (six different, two of each, shipping within Oregon available). Also planned for members events, discounts on bottles at the taproom, things like that. The first quarterly installment was last weekend and the box consisted of two each of: 2018 Oud Bruin, 2019 Oud Bruin, 2019 Bourbon Barrel Stout, Nectarine Golden Ale, Brouwers 14th Anniversary, and Flanders Blonde Kriek.
Just joined, this is the perfect fit for me: it’s not too far to make a day trip once a quarter, but they can ship if I can’t make it or have a proxy pick up. It doesn’t hurt that I think their entire portfolio is world-class.
That was precisely my line of thinking, too. When I picked up I joked that it made since because pFriem gets so much of my money anyway, albeit indirectly. Why not just give it straight to them?
Interesting. Pretty much everything you list has been readily available at retail. (Except maybe the Brouwers collab). I hope that continues. As sharpski mentioned above, their portfolio is, in fact, world class - but what's really impressive is for a world class brewery to be as inclusive and easy to acquire as Pfriem's beers are.
Sounds kinda like Alesong's club - beers that typically see distro but probably a few limited ones that won't from time to time.
I'm supposing that the more readily available offerings in this quarter's allotment are a function of the club just starting up. The additional info on their website suggests that Union-only beers are on the brewing schedule, but even if they stick to a healthy ratio of non-exclusive beers I'll be satisfied. Bend does not see 100% of pFriem's distribution portfolio, as weird as that seems to me.
Is it a flat-rate quarterly fee? Or do they charge you the value of the bottles for that quarter minus 10%?
The latter. It's not a finite amount - they said it would range from $115-$130 each quarter depending on the content of the box.
