Powerball Beer Plans

the only person in the thread to be considerate of others. I don't want to win simply because of the type of person that kind of money turns you into...

 

Leave USA and move to Costa Rica right on the Pacific coast. But would have to start my own Brewery as the beer selection sucks.

 

There would be a huge chunk going into the bank/investments. There would be a summer beercation and I would clean out my local bottle shop.

 

Ten or so of the most epic and fully equipped beer flop houses you can imagine.

 

As much as I love beer it would be the furthest thing from my mind for a couple weeks have a lot of paper work for my personal island

 

I would defiantly hone in my home brewing. Build an awesome cellar / mancave / bar. That's about it.

 

Offer all brewery owners (of the ones I love) some sum of money to own 25% of their companies. I would tell them I want nothing to do with the operations, I just want to fund more capital/help them expand.

The result would be me cutting the lines of all of the breweries, and getting beer for free. I dont want to walk out with 10 cases, I just want to be able to show up and cut the line, grab a couple 4 packs and walk out

 

I would go to work drunk; on beer of course. Before the boss says "your fired!" I'd first say "I quit!" It is many people's dreams to quit their job after winning the lotto, might as well do it in style.

 

There are all kinds of ways that these laws are circumvented, some are even legal!

 

I'd buy an iPod to read this site on instead of my tiny phone. In fact, I'd get hundreds, so that every time I read something I don't like, I can smash one in disgust.

 

I would buy large houses in San Diego and Grand Rapids. I would have smaller homes/condos in Portland, Seattle, Colorado, and somewhere in the Northeast, among other non-beer related places. I'd like to come up with a way to have access to any beer I'd want. Large mancave setups with optimal bottle storage conditions and top-of-the-line tap systems would be in my main houses (SD & GR).

Lastly, I'd like to open up a series of tap rooms catering to different audiences. There would be the sports bar theme, cafe theme, gastropub theme, and brewery theme. The brewery theme would encompass features typically seen in on-site brewery taprooms. One feature would be a simple, yet expansive mug club (tiers based on different factors). Of course I'd have a tier just for BAs.

 

There would definitely be one hell of a beer cellar and bar in the new house I'd build in the mountains of Colorado.
I'd have to hire a full-time beer buyer to travel the country acquiring beers to keep the cellar full.
I would be dropping random porch bombs on awesome members of the BA community..

 

After being robbed by the government and then taking care of the Mrs and children I would definitely try my hand at brewing.

 

I would absolutely, unequivocally, not open a brewery, pub, or craft beer anything! You guys win $1B and think: let's work 60 hours a week??

 

Yep, this. I say I'd open a brewery or cool bottle shop, but the reality is I'd spend a ton of time with my kids, travel, work out, read, and buy an insane amount of beer.

 

Pay Ballast point 1.3 to take their company back

 

Yeah, but remember, you own the place. You can hire someone else to work the 60hrs for you.

 

Beer school first! Probably the one at APP state. Get some farm land closer to Raleigh/Durham and put in some grape vines. Then instead of opening a brewery of my own start a venture capital fund for brewers/breweries. To folks that either trying to start up or expand. Hire a couple of folks that have been in the business for a while to help those folks get started. Also, start a bottle shop that would high light the beers brewed by the folks we helped out and some other local guys. And buy my mom her dream house.

 

Offer Cory King a generous line of financing at a low rate. Only requirement is that I get to be first in line at releases and no longer have to freeze my butt off like at the Smooth release

 

All of the above! To be more precise...

1) Open a brewery in the historic downtown of my hometown. I'm neither a chemist, entrepreneur, nor manager, but with that kind of capital, I'd hire top flight brewing and business talent. All I'd have to do is approve their recommendations. We'd bottle and can. Our brands, labels and label art would honor the great things about our town and region. (And we'd "tap" the local homebrew talent for recipes and one-offs--their booth at the local annual beer festival consistently has the best beer.)

2) Open a really nice taproom at the brewery, with first rate food. It would be aesthetically pleasing and comfortable. It would host regular beer/food pairings. It would have a live music venue. And I'd never leave. (The trick would be to have the brewery and taproom enhance the local beer culture rather than compete with our excellent existing breweries--the strategy would have to aim for a rising tide lifting all boats rather than dividing the pie into smaller pieces.)

3) Build a beautiful walk-in cellar in my basement, in case I ever do go home. Fill it with my favorites. Invite people over regularly.

4) Beer tourism. GABF, Extreme Beer Fest, Breweries of Michigan, IPAs of San Diego. Belgium & Monks. Colorado Brewing.

After graduating from law school, I clerked for a federal appellate judge. One day my first week on the job, she pulled me aside, gave me two dollars, and told me to go buy each of us a lottery ticket--she believed a federal judge shouldn't be seen conducting such business. When I returned with the tickets, she explained the point of buying them was not that we stood any chance of winning, but that as long as you had a ticket, you could fantasize about what you would do with the winnings. For the entire year I clerked, she provided two dollars a week and sent me on this errand.

It's been a long time since, and I didn't maintain the habit. But thanks for this thread and all the fun... I love the beer-fantasy twist. And I will buy a ticket before Wednesday!