Pulpit Rock releases

You can have 35, and we'll keep $ticker $hock. Fair trade, I think.

 

Does anyone have a contact at PR? I'm trying to arrange a group meeting for a homebrew club and would appreciate help reaching someone.

 

Fat Joe Bottle Release

Join us Saturday, 3.10 for 2018’s first bottle release! Fat Joe is a Panama Geisha coffee-forward, imperial stout aged just shy of a year in Elijah Craig 12 Year barrels.

375ml bottles will be $20/ea. Quantities & limits are currently TBD. Advance tickets will not be required but we will be issuing line markers day-of-sale. Details on that are forthcoming.

Might head down for this if I don't hit on the Assassin lottery.

 

Did you hear Minnesota got a new zoo?
They put a fence around Iowa!

 

Now that more details of the Fat Joe release are out. Are many people planning on going?

 

I plan on it. It doesn't sound like many people from central Iowa are going though. I suspect the first 40-50 people will be the same group as last time, myself included.

 

I'm going, but not for a bottle. Hitting up the 8:00AM tap room open for some drafts and crowlers. Should be fun.

 

Im pretty excited to try the DIPA collab and BA Pudgy!

 

We're making the 4 hour drive for it. What better way to spend my birthday than to stand in line for a bottle release. Hopefully will get to try that BA Pudgy.

 

What are everyone's thoughts on the Fat Joe release?

I thought the wrist band solution worked out well even though there were less than 300 people in line. I was surprised that getting in line at 3am put us near the end.

 

I just got pours. Seemed like things were pretty smooth by all accounts.

I was surprised by how many people had the same idea as my group. There was a significant line just to get pours, but after that first round it seemed like things moved real smooth.

 

It was a little backed up initially for pours. After getting wrist bands we went right to the taproom line instead of the crowler line.

I really liked the BA Pudgy, I hope that gets released in bottles at some point.

 

I drove by at 4 and thought the line looked too long, decided to come back for crowlers. I was happy to get a wrist band as they came through that line next. Great pours, too

 

Loved the BA pudgy

 

I was wondering what they did with the extra wristbands. Did they just go down the crowler line for people that didn't already have one?

 

Exactly, and they still had leftovers that they sold first come, first serve.

 

Anyone gonna be making the trip to Pulpit Rock this next weekend for Ol'tella? Looks like they have a pretty great taplist and Ol'tella sounds delicious.

 

I got to try a small sample of Ol'tella on Saturday. It's phenomenal. I can't make the release most likely, but I thought it was one of, if not the, best BA beers Pulpit has done thus far. Really well balanced, all the advertised flavors are present, and great mouth feel. A great beer.

 

How quickly do the lines go? It seems possible that you could get a wristband but miss out on crowlers if the crowler line is too long. Or, miss out on bottle pickup if you’re in line for crowlers. They’re really great people and are efficient at cranking through customers but they have some real space limitations.

 

For Fat Joe, which was the last release in the freezing cold, everyone that lined up got a wristband for bottles. That included some people that were waiting in the crowler line. Hard to predict how it will be different based on the weather change. They have yet to release bottle count/crowler count. I was able to get my wristband at Fat Joe and then went to the crowler line and everything was still available.