Sucaba

It seemed to me that last year Parabola was easier to find than Abacus...er, whatever. That could, and probably is, just me. But you never know. BA Bigfoot...I haven't seen Bigfoot yet.

--tough loss yesterday. Looked like ass, and Johnson probably will not start next game. RCJH!

 

Last years' Sucaba still on shelves in C Springs. I'd be surprised if BA Bigfoot makes it out of CA.

 

people in other states are already getting a hold of some so...

 

Its coming. . . but word is, it will only be ~20 cases for all of CO

 

Source?

 

Directly from Sierra Nevada.

 

Truth.

 

Not surprised. It's not like it flew off the shelves the last time it hit the state.

 

Thought FW was distributed by Am Eagle.

 

Think he means BA Bigfoot

 

This.

 

Duh. Bad me. Sorry.

 

Sucaba page on the FW website says coming Feb. 2013:

http://www.firestonebeer.com/beers/products/sucaba-spring-2012

I haven't heard much about it directly, but I will be purchasing (as usual) a considerable amount to drink and keep. One of my favorite annual releases. Don't worry about the availability. Unless something big has changed on this year's batch, production is usually big enough to satisfy and the distribution is deep enough that it will languish on shelves for a considerable amount of time at smaller stores.

 

I've tracked beer releases for Denver the last 2-years and it's almost always the 2nd week of February, it came February 9th last year, so maybe this week, but more than likely next. I'd expect it next Thursday (2/14) at most places, I'm sure the BA beer managers know better. Likewise, Parabola is the 2nd week in May.

 

I like the regular drum beat of FW barrel aged releases, but I am really excited for the prospect of getting Velvet Merkin sometime in the next year. Matt Brynildson was pouring at Big Beers and he did admit to working toward getting it into distribution.

 

He was pouring Sour Opal at Big Beers, too, which he said would take much longer to get to distro than Merkin, so I think there is some urgency around that one. Never had the Stickee Monkey, but it does sound like my jam. I love it when brewers take a stab at different versions of a style of beer they're already good at. A lot of breweries would have done Sucaba and called it a day, but to make a different barrel-aged Barleywine shows how much they like trying to do new things. It really allows a brewery to showcase mastery of the ingredients and process to make more than one truly great beer of the same style and bring them all to market.

 

According to their site it'll be out in September.