Tampa - Three Palms Brewing - 11/07 Bottle Release

This Friday - 11/07 - 5 PM Burley Barleywine Aged on Coconut in a Rye Whiskey barrel - 22 oz bottles

Who's going?

I'm going to drive over after work from Orlando. I don't look forward to the I4 traffic but beer makes up for it.

 

I've only been to the brewery two times but both times I was pleased with the beers that I ordered. I did get the brew baby milk stout when it was bottled. I also had it on nitro and it was infused with local coffee and that was very good.

I am in the same boat with regards to barleywines but since this one is aged in a barrel, I want to get a few bottles (for now and later.)

Wonder if this is their first BA offering in a bottle? I don't see any other barrel aged beers on their site/this site.

 

That is good to hear.

 

Pricing is $15.

 

Didn't get an exact bottle count. Way less than 100. He only brewed one barrel total (split between bottles and keg.)

I got the last bottle and I arrived only a few minutes after 5pm.

Tried it in a flight with the spiced darkness and the hot schtuff stouts. All were great.

 

I expected there to be a bigger line when I arrived and that many others would arrive after me. The line was only 5 deep when I got there and only 3-4 people came in after me inquiring about the bottles (in the next 30 or so minutes.)

One reason it wasn't that busy was that there were many bottles pre-sold at the brewery prior to the event. There were a few fb posts about the pre-sales. I even attempted to do a pre-order over the phone/internet but they were only allowing pre-sales in person at the brewery. The majority of the bottles were pre-sold. What was left was put in the cooler, 1 per person. At least he did 1 per person or the first person in line would have likely snagged them all.

From my memory, I only saw 3-4 bottles on the bar (in front of their owners,) 3 bottles in line in front of me and 2 bottles in the cooler. My friend and I got those two bottles. That would be 8-9 so to say 7 wasn't too far off.

I think the bottle amount was pretty in line with the crowd I experienced. Had 50 people been lined up prior to 5pm and 42 of them were turned away, it would have been a disaster.

 

After looking up more info, the past several bottle releases were handled similarly. I can't fault them for wanting to do pre-sales to help the locals who have access. I think the fact that all of the releases have sold out should indicate to them that they need to up the production size for all future beers they plan to bottle.

 

I can't fault that logic.

I left 1 hour earlier from Orlando than originally planned and would have a completely different attitude had I shown up at 6:00pm and not gotten a bottle.

(icing on the cake was getting more Good Gourd and 120minute from the TW in front of CCB.)